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<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #002060; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">As part of a team of 12, I will be taking part in a biathlon with a difference!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Racing a 74’ ocean going yacht (ex BT Global Challenge Race yacht – the famous ‘round the world the wrong way’ race series) combined with a team cycle race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The event takes place on the weekend of 28/29 April.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our team will be racing a team from KPMG in an identical yacht from Greenock to the isle of Cumbrae.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #002060; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The entire team will then go ashore and complete a ‘round the island’ cycle race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that we are back on board to continue the yacht race to Portavadie marina on Loch Fyne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then collapse exhausted overnight, before racing the yachts back to Greenock on the Sunday!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boats are designed to be raced by a crew of 18 experienced sailors, so we will have our work cut out as 9 of the 12 are complete novices! (including me!!)</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #002060; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a team we are delighted to be taking part in the inaugural ‘Cumbrae Caper’ and we hope to make it such a success that it will become a really popular annual event that Glasgow businesses can participate in each year.</span></span></span> </p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please help me raise some money for a great charity! </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #73645d; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yes, this is a request for your help in sponsorship!! It will see money raised for a great Glasgow based charity, Ocean Youth Trust Scotland. </span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: #73645d; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ocean Youth Trust Scotland is a world leading youth work charity, delivering an annual programme of residential youthwork voyages aboard its fleet of sail training vessels.</span></span></p>