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Pictures: Archipelago Raid
A french team, Jean Christophe Mourniac and Franck Citeau in Hobiecat Nissan France, won this years edition of Archipelago Raid. The Archipelago Raid was started in 2001 and is now in it?s 7^th year.  It is a 300 ? 500 mile extreme race through the 100,000 islands of the Swedish, Åland and Finnish Archipelago region on F18 catamarans.  Teams compete in a prologue race that takes place from Kungliga Djurgårdsförvaltningen, Stockholm ? Bjono on Sunday 29^th July.  The race itself starts from Bjono on Monday 30^th July.  They then race to four different locations along the course starting at Fejan and ending at Sandhamn in Stockholm. Teams from 10 countries around the world will take part including: UK, USA, Germany, Finland, Sweden, France, Belguim, Australia, New Zealand, Norway.