Sweden

Stockholm, Sweden - Eric Proust and Romain Motteau have won the six day Archipelago Raid sailing race on the catamaran Kalix. This race through the Åland and Finnish archipelago has tested not only the sailing expertise, but the endurance and orienteering skills of these extreme athletes.

Rödhamn, Åland - With the end nearly in sight, the 2-person sailing teams have been working hard to make the Archipelago Raid their own. The 18 foot catamarans have been zig-zagging through the thousands of rocks and islands of the archipelago, and have experienced everything from blistering fast reaches to bobbing about in dead calm. In this event that rewards navigation, sailing and endurance, a tight fleet shows that the competition is serious, and the smiles show it's been seriously fun.

Stockholm, Sweden - Take a bunch of top sailors, put them on small Formula 18 catamarans, and send them out on a 6 day marathon race where they only know the next checkpoint as little as an hour before rounding the last one, and you have the extreme sailing and orienteering race known as the Archipelago Raid. Teams of two sailors must sail intensely, day and night, through a unique course of 20-25 of these checkpoints, strewn among 100,000 rocks and islands of the Stockholm, Åland and Finnish archipelago.