An endurance athlete has helped set the first sailing record between Land's End and John O'Groats.
Sean Conway, 34, set sail from Cornwall with Phil Sharp and Alex Alley on the 620 mile UK coastline challenge on Friday.
Mr Conway, Adventurer of the Year in 2014, is the only person to have run, cycled, swum and now sailed from one end of Britain to the other.
The trio had expected to reach Caithness on Sunday in their historic bid to sail between the two signposts, but calm conditions held them back.
They finally arrived at the end of their epic journey around 8.47pm on Monday, crossing the finish line between Duncansby Head Lighthouse and the island of Muckle Skerry. Their time was 83 hours and 52 minutes and 15 seconds, averaging 7.39 knots.
It was the first benchmark time from Lands End to John O'Groats.
It had been a baptism of fire into offshore sailing for non-sailor Mr Conway who suffered from sea sickness for the first 50 hours of the passage, but who found his sea legs almost as soon as they crossed into Scottish waters.
The trio were raising funds for Brain Tumour Research after Mr Sharp lost his mother to the disease as a child. To donate visit www.justgiving.com/PhilSharpRacing.
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