The annual Three Peaks Race starts from Barmouth and finishes at Fort William, calling at Caernarvon and Ravenglass on the way, where crew members have to disembark and run up Snowdon and Scafell Pike. The race ends with a 13-mile run up Ben Nevis; a/together 350 miles at sea and 70 miles running. In 1982 the yacht Eurythmic was sponsored for the RNLI, and before this year's race her crew (I to r) Mike Swain, John Baker, Peter Mathias, Colin Rose and Mel Hughes, presented a cheque for the money they had raised for the lifeboats, £1,250, to Coxswain George Jeffs of Barmouth lifeboat..