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Shine - Final Day: Betty Swollocks crosses the finishing line.



A quiet final night with no dramas.More quality time spent in the stern  sauna with our ever present companion,Betty Swollocks, the crew member who I for one  will  most certainly  not miss.

So, finally across the line at roughly 08:26:37 this morning, which works out at around 30 minutes short of 16 days from the start  in Gran Canaria. Including the race yachts we  are 13th of the250+ starters, and depending on the handicapping will be first or second in class - not bad for a crew with the combined age of 468.

As promised, the whole crew finished in Tiddy's polyester black  thongs (supplied, not owned by.................I think) . The official ARC photographer came out to meet us so  by the time he's syndicated his photos, we could well be on the front cover of not only Yachting Monthly, but also Muscleboy,Nosh and various other  top shelf publications .

A great sense of achievement and an unforgettable experience for us all,with many excellent memories and tales of derring-do.  Tales that will doubtless be embellished  and I suspect many of you may well will tire of them all too soon.

I speak for the whole crew in thanking  Giles for inviting us and offer an especially big thank you to Shine for getting us her safely. We bent you a bit, broke a few parts and even tried to fill you with seawater, but you never faltered.

A final thank you to all who have read this rambling drivel over the last couple of weeks, an din the words of Samuel Pepys himself,

And so to bed.

                     


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