READERS have reacted after mountain rescue teams reported a 70 per cent rise in call-outs during December. Recently, Richard Warren, chairman of the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association, put out a warning after teams throughout the county got 31 callouts this month, as of December 24, compared to 18 for the same period last year. Many of those rescued came from Tier Three covid-19 restricted areas. Assistant Chief Constable Andrew Slattery, from Cumbria Constabulary, said: “Where callouts are avoidable this just puts team members and their loved ones at unnecessary risk. “Please adhere to the guidance on travel from Tier Three, and Four, areas.”
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Detail First is provisional winner of Launceston to Hobart Race 30 December 2020
After a tough two days of sailing, the Hobart-based team,
Detail First, is the provisional winner of the TasPorts Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race, with an IRC corrected elapsed time of 1 day, 22 hours, 49 minutes and 18 seconds.
While
Alive, skippered by Duncan Hine and owned by Philip Turner, won line honours and set a new race record, the Notice of Race for the event determines the overall winner as the winner on IRC handicap overall.
The result for
Detail First skipper Scott Broadby, sailing his Farr 1104, is a testament to the team’s hard work and grit on the race track, and to the race itself, in which boats under 40 feet can take the silverware.