Worrell 1000 2024 for Burvill & Puttman
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Worrell 1000 2024 Final Results
Brett Burvill & Max Puttman won this weekend the coastal Endurance regatta by excellence, the Worrell 1000 Race. Brett described it as the Everest of Catamaran racing, and it indeed it is a great challenge to sail 6 to 14hs hours every single day, launching from the shorebreak, and enduring any king of condition the East coast can throw at you.
Brett & Max won 11 out of 12 legs, with Randy Smyth & Dalton Tebo winning the remaining.
Second place overall for this 2024 edition went to Pete and Bailey Skewes, both teams sailing Brett and Max Edge/Nxt Gen Sails combo
Third overall for two great guys, Mannu Boulogne & Matthieu Marfaing on board the Cirrus 901, they performed well in every condition, from light 4-5knots upwind to fast reaches and downwinds. Happy for Manu on the hard work he always do, a truly sailor builder like Brett, both putting plenty of hours on the water.
Next big regatta for these teams will be F18 Worlds 2024 at Costa Brava, already 126 boats registered.
I followed the Worrell each day and when waking and these guys were already on the water, at night when were having diner while the fleet was sometimes on the dark navigating in the dark to next leg finish.
The Formula 18 has several raid type regattas like Archipelago Raid, St Barts, Croatian Challenge and many more, but none compare to the preparation, logistics and hard raw F18 sailing required to complete the Worrell 1000.
A shout to our friend Sam Carter, racing with Ian Ray, going for good recovery after dismasting. Respect for all the teams racing the toughest F18 regatta out there.
Hats off to the teams and their shore crew and of course the organization led among others by John Williams in the RC and Beverly Simmons on the media. Coverage was really good in terms of live streams (plenty of them here) and info on results, live tracking et all. Quite complete resources to follow it daily via their FB page, only thing they need to get some pics even from cels just to publish along press releases or updates.
Worrell 1000 official web https://worrell1000race.com/
Worrell 1000 Fb with plenty of Live streams replays, prize ceremony and interviews here
Results by leg https://worrell1000race.com/results/
Words by Brett Burvill published in his fb:
Brett Burvill Worrell 1000 Race 2024
Well thats it, we have done it , Conquered the Everest of off the beach catamaran sailing , racing against legends of the sport for over 90 hrs to complete the 1000 mile Worrell 1000 Race .
Huge thanks to Rod Waterhouse and wife Kerri for being our best advisers and organizers . Tony Priu from Tavernier Creek Marina, your a legend Tony, for all you help and with the container , trailer and arranging our ground movements we cant thank you enough.
Max Puttman and I have done it and Pete and Bailey Skewes have come in second as Team Australia 2 also sailnig a Windrush F18 Edge built by Myself and Daniel Brown at Windrush Yachts .
Dan Best pusher on the beach and looked after all the rigging tasks for the race, thanks mate . How about those sails from Next Gen Sailmakers. Max has come up with something special and there were several 1, 2 finishes for the 2 Next Gen Edges .
Harken Australia Pty Ltd thanks so much for your generous support providing fit out kits for teh 2 team Australia boats. Vaikobi for helping out keeping us warm and able to complete our days work each day in comfort .
Malcheski Composites for the best adjustable hiking sticks going , just awesome to use and they are Worrell tough. Hero Hoists Australia thanks for your generous support , it helped us out massively with all our ground cost in the USA. If your a handy man or workshop looking for a new hoist for your car or motorbike check them out, 10% discount I believe if you mention the Worrell 1000!
Happy birthday to my son Zac 19 years old today back home. Love you mate and will have a beer for you tonight . Also to be able to share some of the race with my Brother Hayden has been great , he was able to make it our for 2/3 of the race and our great friend Alastair Caldwell came along to keep us in check incase Rod wasnt able to keep a lid on us .
Thanks to everyone from Worrell 1000 Race organization for just everything , such a well run event by dedicated and super friendly and passionate people , all the social media team has been amazing and I believe this race has been blowing up online . Looking fwd to getting home to the family and back to work so we can go to Italy and Spain for the F18 Worlds next month to see all our fantastic sailing family fr around the globe.
Feeilng a bit overwhelmed that we got it done in such a dominant fashion”
Worrell 1000 Race Overall 2024 Results.
| Place | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia 1 | 90:09:11 |
| 2 | Australia 2 | 93:11:15 |
| 3 | Cirrus/MM Sailing | 93:35:13 |
| 4 | Rudee’s | 94:40:16 |
| 5 | TCDYC | 100:23:15 |
| 6 | A Gentleman’s Agreement | 103:01:10 |
| 7 | Meerkat | 103:03:28 |
| 8 | Outer Banks (OBX) | 103:24:33 |
| 9 | Germany | 103:46:35 |
| 10 | MLP | 105:17:34 |
| 11 | Roo in the Hat | 118:42:57 |
Team Crews:
| Team | Skipper | Crew | Country | Boat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babysitting Robots | Trey Sunderland | Nik Tossi | USA | Goodall F18 Akurra |
| Team Germany | Stefan Rumpf | Christian Schutz | GER | Nacra F18 Evolution |
| Team Australia 2 | Pete Skewes | Bailey Skewes | AUS | Windrush Edge |
| TCDYC | Chris Green | Jean Boulogne | USA | Cirrus 901 |
| Team Australia 1 | Brett Burvill | Max Puttman | AUS | Windrush Edge |
| A Gentleman’s Agreement | Ian Ray | Sam Carter | USA | Nacra F18 Evolution |
| Team MLP | Gerard Loos | André Hauschke | NED/GER | Windrush Edge |
| Roo in The Hat | Brett White | Larry Ferber | USA/AUS | Nacra F18 Evolution |
| Team Rudees | Randy Smyth | Dalton Tebo | USA | Nacra F18 Evolution |
| Meercat | Mark Modderman | Mike Siau | USA | AHPC C2 |
| CIRRUS – MM Sailing | Emmanuel Boulogne | Matthieu Marfaing | FRA/USA | Cirrus 901 |
| Team Outer Banks | Hardy Peters | James Eaton | USA | Nacra F18 Evolution |
