Mid October E3 Systems held the fourth edition of the yachting industry-based cycling events that they host each spring and autumn on Mallorca’s most beautiful and demanding routes. The events raise money for Yachting Gives Back, the magnificent charity work of Nick Entwisle and his lovely team. This times the riders were faced with the island’s iconic and challenging climb at Sa Calobra – ‘The e3 Speedcast Fraser Yachts Sa Calobra Big Wriggle’ – a nomenclature almost as fiddly as the route itself..
The only shame was that our cycling clashed with the Roaring 40s charity golf event organised by Dan Wise (SY Mystery) at Alcanada, as I would like to have played golf with him and he would have liked to have come cycling with us as perhaps a more enjoyable part of his training for his forthcoming row across the Atlantic in the Talisker Challenge..
Around 40 captains, crews, engineers, ETOs, agents, project managers and owner’s reps joined the hosts – e3 Systems, Speedcast and Fraser Yachts – at the beautiful Es Guix restaurant near the Lluc Monastery for an early breakfast and the 40km ride over the Coll des Reis, down the insane descent to Sa Calobra for a quick breather by the sea, before the long and spectacular climb back up to the top and along to Es Guix for a hearty and very enjoyable lunch. – some being brave enough to dive into the restaurant’s beautiful natural rock swimming pool on the way to their table… Well done Steve Worrall (Atalante Group) and Soren Christensen (MY Odyssey) for your Wim Hof presentation!
These events are always entirely free of charge for the participants to enter and The Big Wriggle enjoyed magnificent additional support from our great friend Bart Noordhoek at satcom provider Speedcast and from Raphael Saleau and Steen Christensen of Fraser Yachts (always fun to have in the room..), the only request being for a donation that goes in full to support of Yachting Gives Back.
Nearly 3000Euro was raised on the day, enough to provide the Associacio Tardor soup kitchen in Palma with a meat supply for six weeks. The meat budget is a constant worry for the Tardor volunteers, whose kitchen not only feeds hundreds of people daily but also caters for residents at their two homeless shelters Llar Kurt and Llar Inge.
This pushes the total amount raised in the four events so far over the 10,000Euro mark! A big thumbs up to all involved!
The event was Sponsored by E3 Systems – Speedcast – Fraser Yachts.
By Hamish Goddard
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