Worrell 1000 stage 4

New faces at the front

There were two new faces at the front of the Worrell 1000 fleet yesterday. Chris Sawyer and Matt Struble sailed their Inter 20 catamaran Athletes in Action to a dominate four minute win over Joseph Sonnenklar and John Casey on Castrol, finishing the 69-mile stage in 05:01.43.

The entire eighteen cat fleet shattered the record time for the Cocoa to Daytona leg of the race, with the first team crossing the line over an hour earlier than the best time in the past 19 regattas. The stage win was particularly sweet for Athletes in Action crew Matt Struble as it is his final leg of the race.

Race leaders Stephen Lohmayer and Kenneth Pierce on Tybee Island finished the stage in fifth place, nine minutes and 41 seconds astern of the leg winners but were only 18 seconds behind Alexander’s on the Bay and so hold a one minute and 40 second advantage in the cumulative times from all four stages.

Today the fleet are sailing the final Florida stage from Daytona to Jacksonville Beach.

Worrell 1000 overall standings after four stages:

Position	Team	Helm and crew	Overall race time
1	Tybee Island	Stephen Lohmayer and Kenneth Pierce	17hrs 26mins 17sec
2	Alexander's on the Bay	Brian Lamber and Jamie Livingston	17:27 57
3	AthletesInAction.net	Chris Sawyer and Matt Struble	17:29 01
4	Castrol	Joseph Sonnenklar and John Casey	17:31 16
5	San Antonio	John Tornko and John Oliveira	17:37 43
6	Tommy Bahama	Alex Shafer and Nigel Pitt	17:44 31
7	Caliente	Tommy Gonzalez and Mark Murray	17:56 34
8	Bay Wind 2	Craig Callahan and Rob Lancaster	18:07 35
9	Antieau Art	Carl Roberts and David Lennard	18:12 23
10	Lexis Nexis	Brendan Busch and James Korkosz	18:16 24
11	Bay Wind 1	Richard Pleasants and Reigh North	18:16 28
12	PI Sailing	Steve Piche and Ian Billings	18:32 01
13	Ruddee's Restaurant	Gerard Loos and Piet Heemskerk	18:35 10
14	Caribbean/Cat Fever	Todd Hart and Davis Murray	18:51 54
15	Fully Involved/Space Coast	Mark Herendeen and Les A Bauman	18:55 06
16	Outer Banks	John R McLaughlin and John Parsely Jnr	19:17 50
17	Howard's Pub	Mark Stopforth and Doug Kirby	19:30 33
18	Dimension Data	Allan Lawrence and John H. Van Der Wyer	20:49 33