Jack Haywood and Chay Blyth with PARA crew of "Great Britain II"

From The Pegasus Journal.

Parachute Brigade soldiers selected by Chay Blvth to crew "Great Britain II" in the first Whitbread Round The World Yacht Race in 1973.

On 8 September, 1973 17 race yachts, carrying 167 crew from seven different nations, hoisted their spinnakers on the way out from Portsmouth into the English Channel on the first leg of a brand new sporting contest stopping in Cape Town, Sydney and Rio before returning to Portsmouth.