Hydro Tasmania Three Peaks Race

With all teams finished by Tuesday evening the race focus moves to the Presentation Dinner. His Excellency the Honourable Mr Peter Underwood AO, Governor of Tasmania will present the major trophies including the hard fought and sought after Tilman Trophy that is announced at the dinner. This trophy is based on a points system where participation and performance points are amassed. Older teams also score points.

Winners of other trophies have been posted on the website with the exception of those especially announced at the Presentation Dinner.

Congratulations to all winners but also congratulations to all participants as we know that to prepare and be at the start line for an event such as this is in itself an achievement.

Congratulations are also due to our team of dedicated and hard working volunteers without whom we could not conduct this event.

Dean and David finished the race for Elphinstone at 2.39pm. Chance has finally reached the Iron Pot and expects to be in Hobart at 5pm.
The trophies are out for engraving and Alastair is currently working out the prize-getters.
Hobart race control is being cleaned up and packed away and the sailors - or those who aren't reclining with a few beverages - are finishing packing up their boats.
Life is returning to some sense of normality with another Peaks (almost) behind us.
Everyone is looking forward to the post-race brag and of course next Saturday's presentation dinner at Elwick race-course, when all the competitors will be recognised for what they have achieved in the last few days.
A certain hard-core Peaks runner who finished in the early hours of this morning just completed another run - just a 7km cool down!

Elphinstone Weigh To Go runners David Sweetman and Dean Radford left race control at 11.16. Chance passed Dunalley at 12.30.

Chance is motoring through the Mercury Passage but won't be able to go through Dunalley until high tide at about 4pm. So it will probably arrive in Hobart about 9pm tonight... at which time everyone else will probably be finishing up the post-race brag!

No sign of Chance at Dunalley... and no radio contact from Elphinstone to say whether they've reached the Iron Pot.
Premium Constructions' Aub Henricks and Doug Grubert put in a good run of two hours 46 minutes to finish at 7.58am and Apollonius finished at 9.11am.

The 21st Hydro Tasmania Three Peaks Race has all but wrapped up, with most of the runners getting back in a big rush in this morning's wee hours. Apollonius is the only team on the mountain and at sea we have Elphinstone in Frederick Henry Bay and Chance, still north of Maria Island, drawing out the finish.

Apollonius' Brendan Davies and John Cannell left for the top of Mt Wellington all rugged up at 5.49am. Luckily it is only going to get warmer and lighter for them.

I don't envy those guys running up the mountain. The BOM says it's 3 degrees outside in Hobart, but it feels like -10. It is actually -6 degrees on the mountain and blowing about 30 knots - YUCK!