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Race Teams for 2002
Updated 8th March 2002
Team 1: Austchoice
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Design: Chamberlin 30 foot catamaran A highly competitive catamaran that will put great pressure on its bigger rivals. Marshall has spent the period since last race focused on ways to improve his yachts performance to beat the larger catamaran API Mersey Pharmacy. Rivalry on the water between the two yachts has been fierce while ashore the families have forged a great friendship. They are fielding the same team as last year that had to retire at Lady Barron when a runner suffered dehydration. |
Team 2: Maintenance Systems
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Design: Adams 13 A fast easily driven yacht that is ideal for this race and Peter is due for a major win on his sixth attempt. Recent form has been excellent, scoring a number of wins in races held in Bass Strait waters. Supported by competent crew and good runners this team always has a chance for the major placing but to date has yet to score its first Three Peaks win. |
Team 3: Hydro Wind Power
| Design: Radford 14 Entering the Cruising Division for the first time this year, Richard is taking a crew of 10 thus giving many of his usual crew the opportunity to experience the thrills of doing their first Three Peaks Race. The nucleus of this crew is widely experienced having competed in many races and the teams has also twice won the event. |
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Team 4: Haphazard
| Design: Radford 14 Another very experienced team having won the event twice before. Another win is distinctly possible especially if hard windward conditions prevail making it tough on the catamarans. |
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Team 5: Camp Quality Phantom
| Design: 9.55 metre sloop. A Tilman entrant in the Cruising Division, this team is again raising money for Camp Quality. This team has previously twice won the Tilman trophy and could be a winner again for this coveted award as all team members are expected to run at least one mountain. A win will make it three Tilman Trophy prizes in a row. Veteran Lloyd Febey returns for his 12th race, a record number for a Three Peaks runner. |
 Ben Parsons with Mt Strzelecki in the background. |
Team 6: Canterbury 42 South
| Design: Inglis 39 Mark returns with a new boat for this year's race and given medium downwind conditions could surprise some of the more fancied teams. Runners Jacqui and Melanie have run together twice before and can be guaranteed to finish in good placings. |
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Team 7: Bohemian Rhapsody
| Design: Herreschoff H28 The H28 is a renowned cruising yacht and Matthew has used this vessel to its capabilities. With his wife he cruised to the Solomons in 1996. His first try in the Three Peaks Race this year, he has assembled a new crew except for the experienced and well performed runner Richard Eccleston from Queensland. Matthew says "This race seems to be in the spirit of the early transatlantic races I grew up hearing so much about in the 60s and 70s. It also gives you three chances to get tired, wet, cold, scared and exhausted!" |
 Matthew Gogarty |
Team 8: Thales ATM (Team withdrawn)
Team 9: API Mersey Pharmacy
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Chamberlin 38 catamaran Winner in 2001, this team is keen to defend it's title and sees as it's main rival the small but fast catamaran sasiled by Phillip Marshall, a vessel from the same design board of Robin Chamberlin. Robin and Terry are very experienced multihull sailors and successfully sailed this cat to the Antarctic in January/February 1999 setting records for a voyage in high lattitudes in this type of vessel. Determined to win this race Robin Chamberlin has three times sailed from Queensland. Last year with favourable winds they led for most of the race to finish in the winners place and setting a new record time of 2 days, 8 hours, 16 minutes and 35 seconds, reduicing the old record time by 4 minutes 55 seconds. The odds are against a catamaran or any team for that matter, winning two races in a row we can be sure that they will be all out to make it a back to back victory. Their aim is to have the same team as last year with the same desire as last year looking for the same result as last year - an Easter of fun! |
 Robin Chamberlin |
Team 10: Close Encounters
| Design: UFO 34 A well prepared and sailed 34 footer will have a great race with the other yachts of this size. Two year ago competing in the Cruising Division Damien showed that a well sailed smaller yacht could match much bigger yachts when he finished well up in the fleet using very little of his motoring allowance. |
 Close Encounters |
Team 11: Mobil Kingston Beach
| Design: Adams 10 |
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| An experienced team who will give all to win the Tilman Trophy they have twice won before. The team has secured sponsorship from in excess of 30 businesses throughout Tasmania to support their effort. Long distance ultra runner Tim Sloane will put pressure on other team members to keep up with him, pressure they will happily endure. All team members will run to maximise their Tilman points. |
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Team 12: Giant Steps
Design: Sparkmans & Stephens S&S34 Striving for their first win in the Tilman Trophy and to upset Camp Quality Phantom, they will have the advantage of some extra age points. Specialist runners Kent and Savage last ran in year 2000 when they scored acreditable 4th overall in accumulative running time are again expected to score valuable running performance points. The team has been raising money for the charity Giant Steps, an organisation caring for autistic people. The team says "Our small steps will add up to giant ones!" |
Team 13: Crotty Dental
Design: Roberts 38 This team will score more age points for the Tilman Trophy than other Tilman teams but may not score so well in the performance points. One thing for sure, the team should do the race comfortably in this solid cruiser. Two new race records are set by this team on race day. Congratulations to John Haynes aged 70, who has the honour of holding the record for being the oldest competitor in the history of the race and Janine Crotty aged 45, who will hold two records, one for the oldest female competitor and the other for the oldest female runner. |
Team 14: Underwater Video Systems
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Design: Mumm 36 Another team choosing to compete in the Cruising Division this year and taking extra crew. A mixture of experience in the race plus some new people to the event, Underwater Video Systems will be a strong team in the Cruising Division and is expected to be well placed. Jeff has been generous in inviting members of the Victorian team Unfinished Business who had the misfortune of not being with a yacht after the dismasting of the fast Mt Gay 30 design they had planned to use. |
Team 15: ZAB Window Fashions
| Design: Adams 11.9m The nucleus of this team returns to challenge this year in a faster and more competitive yacht. It is expected that they will be well up in the fleet and could surprise some of the more experienced crews. Last year the Team Youth crew had the distinction of having an average age of 20.8 years, the youngest team in the race's history. |
Team 16: Suicide Blonde
Design: Mumm 36 This well sailed yacht competes in the race for the first time. The experienced sailing crew will ensure that the team is a force to be watched keenly by other competitors and, supported by the Clauson brothers who have shown their running strength in other endurance events, they will have a consistently high performance in all stages. James Polson appears to be taking a leaf out of the book of the skipper of the other Mumm 36, Jeff Cordell who once said that the best way to avoid running in a Three Peaks Race is to own the yacht. James must be keen to avoid the run at Mt Freycinet! |
