2.30pm: Over lunch time today the two crew were closing in on their second refuelling stop at Portavogie on the Ards Peninsula. Trying to maintain a speed of 50mph is no mean feat in a 7.5 metre RIB. In order to break the 19-hour record Philip Fitzgibbon and Mike Shanahan need to be back in Kinsale before 8pm. It looks tight!
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