Charity – Planets Southampton
Amount Raised £1,600
In 2016 Lee and one of the Musketeers decided that they would like to enter into the annual Round the Island Yacht Race, which starts and finishes at Cowes and involves racing against the clock around the Isle of Wight with roughly 1600 other yachts of varying size and shape. The challenge was that neither of them had ever sailed before, so they enlisted two friends, who were experienced skippers and they agreed to do the challenge as well. On race day it was not looking good weather wise, there were high winds predicted, which suited some but not the novices, but it was too late to back out! The race started at 8am from Cowes and 8hrs 55min later they completed the race, soaked to the skin and completely exhausted, out of the 1600 boats that started 400 did not finish! The weather got up to a force 7 round the back of the island and it was pretty scary at times, but they finished and managed to raise over £1600 for Planets!
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