British Three Peaks Race - Slow sea road to Scotland

8:27 AM Wed 23 Jun 2010 GMT

'EAD Innovation Works leads (3) from Team Whistler (20)'

With the wind dying away overnight, the leading yachts in the British Three Peaks Race are making slow progress up the west of Scotland towards the finish of the final sailing leg at Fort William, at the head of the long and narrow Loch Linnhe. At 4.30am today, local time, the leading yacht, EADS Innovation Works, was maintaining its lead and was abeam of the Scottish seaport of Oban on its starboard hand and the Isle of Mull to port, both famous names on the west coast. Based on satellite reports, the British boat, an X99 and sailed by a ...

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by Peter Campbell