Stockholm Archipelago Raid 2015 started with a blast

Stockholm Archipelago Raid 2015-3058On Thursday August 27th 2015 the Stockholm Archipelago Raid started. At the start 24 Formula 18 catamarans showed up for their 4-day raid of sailing through the Swedish Archipelago. In sunny conditions the fleet left the KSSS yacht club in Saltsjöbaden (Stockholm) to go for their first stop on Finnhamn. After lunch the fleet continued their raid to the final destination of the day: Fejan. After day 1 Mathias Söderström and Thomas Westergren are the leaders followed by Carolijn Brouwer and Darren Bundock in 2nd position. Thomas Ekefalk and Rasmus Rosengren are third.

Stockholm Archipelago Raid 2015-3032“It’s heavier than sailing the Volvo Ocean Race. Ok, it’s been a while since I’ve been on a F18, but true… it was hard work!” says Carolijn Brouwer. “It should be a relaxing holiday, not hard work…. I do less on an Americas Cup boat“, adds Darren Bundock with a smile. And they’re right, it wasn’t easy at all today. The wind started building in the afternoon and had some nice surprises for the cat sailors. When they came form behind some islands the breeze builded up to 25-30 knots in no time. Not easy at all when you’re already doing 15 knots boatspeed and not expecting that to happen.

Stockholm Archipelago Raid 2015-4406Also Lars Linder (F18 Chairman Sweden) had a very good day: “It was an awesome day! I think some new speed records were set today. As we went from Finnhamn to Fejan, a distance of 20 NM, in just over 1 hour with an average speed of 17 knots…. amazing! After a sauna everybody enjoyed a good ‘Swedish BBQ’ and shared stories of today. We all look forward to tomorrow to another day of strong winds and good sailing.”

Results after day 1:

Sail Number Crew Leg 1 Leg 2 day one results
swe 81 mathias s + thomas w 1 28 1 28 56 1
aus 888 carolijn b + darren b 3 26 2 27 53 2
swe 7 thomas e +  rasmus r 2 27 8 21 48 3
swe 768 henrik a + mathias a 5 24 7 22 46 4
swe 777 petter k + malcolm h 7 22 5 24 46 5
gbr 501 william s +freddie w 4 25 9 20 45 6
sui 10 andreas l + martin j 13 16 3 26 42 7
ned 111 bas p + pieter o 6 23 12 17 40 8
ger 170 korbinian k + sebastian l 12 17 10 19 36 9
swe 73 lars l + erik b 8 21 15 14 35 10
swe 757 anders d +henrik p 11 18 13 16 34 11
swe 2 leff d +  9 20 16 13 33 12
swe 717 gregory s + marcus p 15 14 11 18 32 13
swe 11 oscar c + arvid c 20 9 6 23 32 14
gbr 4 john e + mikael j 10 19 20 9 28 15
swe 40 niklas b + oscar w 19 10 14 15 25 16
swe 70 fredrik k + niklas n dnf 2 4 25 27 17
swe 336 claes r + lasse o 16 13 18 11 24 18
swe 294 lea a + anders a 18 11 17 12 23 19
swe 21 magnus l + patrik n 14 15 dnf 2 17 20
swe 924 max o + janis m 21 8 21 8 16 21
swe 66 ola p + tommy s 17 12 dnf 2 14 22
swe 2266 johan a + andreas h dnf 2 19 10 12 23

Download the results here. Follow the event on the Facebook event page. For more information about the event, check the Stockhom Archipelago Raid website.