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£100,000 Target Reached!

Mary has now raised the whole £100,000 of her
ambitious QII Challenge target for The Institute of Cancer Research. She is
enormously grateful to all those who have helped her in raising this phenomenal
sum.

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QII completes another Channel Week

Mary and QII succesfully completed the
arduous Channel Week on Saturday. They finished tied 6th in the 22 boat
fleet with only two other 35 footers ahead of them, and even beat some on irc
handicap, finishing 14th on irc.

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QII in Brixham

QII and Mary arrived safely in Brixham during the early hours this morning after successfully completing the 4th, and longest, leg of Channel Week having left St. Quay in France at 1100 the previous morning. It was also the toughest leg, hard on the wind after a short fast reach at the start. The wind which was F4 at the start increased to F6 to 7 in mid channel, making a hard and wet passage. Mary found reefing and unreefing her large mainsail very hard work and was relieved to reach Brixham safely and well up in the fleet.
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A difficult leg to Brixham

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2010-08-08 21:03.

Mary - you are an inspiration to us all - well done. It must have been a trying and exhuasting experience but you've done it!! You really are incredible. Lol Penny

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Mary and QII set off again!

On Saturday 31 July Mary and QII are setting off on
the Solo Offshore Racing Club (formerly Petit Bateau) Channel Week. The course
is Lymington to Alderney, Alderney to Guernsey, Guernsey to St.

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Article on the Shetland Round Britain & Ireland Race by Jerry Freeman

The 2010 edition of the Shetland Round Britain and Ireland race was the best in living memory; it had everything a sailor could wish for in a short-handed ocean race.

For a start there was a very big fleet comprising 56 hot boats with keen crews.
The classes were closely matched, from the first cohort of class-40 ever to contend this classic event right through to the Corinthians in class 4.

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Mary and Jerry finish the shetland Round Britain & Ireland Race

Mary and Jerry crossed the Plymouth finishing line
at 1007 on Monday. For each of them this was the 6th completed Round Britain
& Ireland Race.

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QII moves up the fleet

QII arrived in Barra yesterday, Saturday, afternoon at 1622. Kinsale to Barra in well under 3 days! In the process she did some overtaking. She was 4th in her class to arrive and, on corrected time, an unbelievable 3rd! She is currently shown as up to 6th place in the whol;e irc fleet – fantastic for a boat designed for open class racing – but it’s possible that lower rating boats still to arrive will come ahead on irc.

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Leg 1 Results

Except for the Class 40s and multihulls, which have their own classes, the Race is run under the irc handicap system. QII was designed instead for classes determined by boat length and so gets a terrible irc handicap. It puts her in class ! although she is one of the smaller boats in the fleet! So Mary was not expecting to beat many boats on irc.

To her amazement and delight the results posted at the Kinsale Yacht Club yesterday evening show QII 8th in the irc fleet of 39 boats QII sets off on leg 2 of the Race to Barra just before 10pm this evening.

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QII in Kinsale

QII crossed the Kinsale finish line at 2259 BST on
Monday. Her position in the fleet is not yet known as the RWYC's race website is
down. There were several boats ahead but none which Mary and Jerry were ashamed
to be behind and QII was ahead of a lot, including some which were expected to
be ahead.

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Race preparations underway

Over the past few weekends Mary & Jerry have
been preparing for the Race. Twohanded, they followed the SORC fleet who were
doing the singlehanded Round the Island (Wight) Race which was a good
opportunity to test different sails in racing conditions.

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