With two and a half months until start 18 teams have already signed up. They come from Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland. Still plenty of time to sign up for the big adventure, but the early bird entry fee offering ends by the end of this week (15th of June).
It can already be said that the level of competition is going to be high. The top three teams from 2024 (all Swedes) are all back and they will face fierce competition this year. For example from
- Germany the Wunderle brothers Manuel and Fabian with multiple german national F18 titles. under their belt.
- France brothers Emeric and Félix Dary winners of the eurocat and 11th at the Worlds in 2023 and french champions 2022.
- The Netherlands Ad Noordzij and Arthur Moerman winners of the Martinique Cataraid earlier this year.
In the Mixed class 3 raid experienced teams have signed up to date.
- The former raid champions Jan Jensen and Penny Wyon (DEN)
- Christian Schütz, who sailed the raid 5 times before and completed the Worrel 1000 earlier this spring, now sailing with his daughter Katharina.
- Thomas and Pippi Windrike (SWE), former winners of the mixed class.
The youth team Edwin Åberg and Theodor Norrby (SWE) are back, now with a top notch C2. They have an amazing learning curve and are totally fearless. They can definatly challenge the best Swedish and international teams about a place on the podium if the winds play in their favour.
As mentioned in a previous post we are also happy to welcome back the legendary sailors Anders Lewander, a raid veteran and winner of the Archipelago Raid 2003, again sailing with Hanse Thorslund. Together they sailed the raid many times and now look forward to the adventure and to hang loose in the wire once again.
The world record holder of sailing a boat backwards (from Åland to Sweden!) Mikael Sommansson Richter, is back and said he promise to sail his F18 with the bows in the front and rudders in the back. It might not be enough for the podium, but should improve his chances of getting around the course.
There is still place for more teams to join the big adventure. Sign up this week to enjoy the best price.
Signed up to date (2024-06-10):
| Sail number | Skipper Name | Nationality | Crew Name | Crew nationality |
| DEN 11 | Jan Hedmann Jensen | Denmark | Penelope Wyon | Denmark |
| FRA 7 | Emeric Dary | France | Félix Dary | France |
| GER 33 | Manuel Wunderle | Germany | Fabian Wunderle | Germany |
| GER 340 | Christian Schütz | Germany | Katharina Schütz | Germany |
| NED 3 | Kees Wiersema | Netherlands | Rob Schutte | Netherlands |
| NED 15 | Ad Noordzij | Netherlands | Arthur Moerman | Netherlands |
| SWE 380 | Wouter Faber | Netherlands | Clemens Fleige | Germany |
| SWE 1 | Lars Linder | Sweden | Erik Brunnberg | Sweden |
| SWE111 | Jacob Lundqvist | Sweden | Oscar Lundqvist | Sweden |
| SWE789 | Thomas Windrike | Sweden | Pippi Windrike | Sweden |
| SWE 363 | Edvin Åberg | Sweden | Theodor Norrby | Sweden |
| SWE 78 | Anders Mårten | Sweden | Mikael Sommansson Richter | Sweden |
| SWE 007 | Fredrik Karlsson | Sweden | Niklas Nordblom | Sweden |
| SWE 4 | Magnus Bergendahl | Sweden | Jonas Jonzon | Sweden |
| SWE 888 | thomas Blomborn | Sweden | Janne Jaakkola | Finland |
| SWE 64 | Peter Busck | Sweden | TBD | |
| SWE130 | Jakob Palmblad | Sweden | Oscar Wetterling | Sweden |
| SWE 59 | Anders Lewander | Sweden | Hanse Thorslund | Sweden |