The event was a joint effort between the three services, and travel company Ticket to Ride, aiming to raise at least £10,000 for the charity Help For Heroes using a Kitesurfing Challenge.
The Island of Alderney is just off the Cherbourg peninsular, and so was the perfect start point.
This is the first cross channel race of this kind, and was different in that many channel crossings are from the southeast coast of the uk to calais – only 17 miles or so. Alderney to Poole is approximately 70 miles.
The teams left Southampton at 6pm on Thursday 9th September in 3 ribs to cross the channel. The crossing itself was  … Details
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