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PASAB (Penzance Around Scilly and Back) yacht race is hosted by Penzance Sailing Club and has been run annually since 1978. The race starts in Penzance, Cornwall, UK and takes competitors to the Isles of Scilly.
Plans for the first race were put together by Richard Wood, Brian Saunders and Colin Harrison in the late 1970s with the first race taking place in August 1978. Mike Manzi, a local jeweller, volunteered to make the Manzi trophy which, to this day, is presented to the overall winner.
The first two editions of PASAB took place as a single race. Starting on a Friday evening, the race took competitors from Penzance to Lowlee and Mountamopus cardinal marks before passing south of Wolf Rock Lighthouse. From here the yachts passed around the Isles of Scilly, south of Wolf Rock and to a finish in Penzance. After two years as a two leg race (1980-1981) with a stop-over in the Isles of Scilly the race has been, and is still today, split into 3 legs: Leg 1 - Penzance to St Mary's, Leg 2 - Around the Islands, Leg 3 - St Mary's to Penzance.
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