Ex PACIFIC LONGBOW is an Army Adventurous Sail Training Exercise taking place from 20 Sep 17 – 20 Sep 18. Leg 4 is the Infantry Leg from 10 Dec 17 to 19 Jan 18 and has been allocated to the Foot Guards and London Regiment. A Challenge 72 yacht (15 man crew) will depart from Panama, sailing via the Galapagos Islands, to Hawaii.
Guardsman Brain of The Prince of Wales’s Company is currently part of that crew sailing from Hawaii to Panama and along the way he received a commemorative coin from the Marine Infantry of Ecuador for facing his fears and swimming with a 5m tiger shark.
