It hammers you and takes over, mushes up your mind, makes you very happy when it's over,
makes you wish it wasn't when it is. It's a little bit of controlled madness, really,
and competitors who've raced the Worrell can feel it tugging at their sleeves all year
long until a certain day in May when they push off from the beach in Fort Lauderdale and
race hard up the coast, keeping the contiguous 48 states somewhere off to their left."
- Sailing World Magazine

The Race From Fort Lauderdale, Florida north to Virginia Beach, Virginia, there stretches for 1,000 miles a fine long, sandy beach broken only by a few channels into various ports and cuts between islands. Masked by its spectacular beauty one can easily forget that this majestic coastline was shaped by the fury of the North Atlantic. A fury, so treacherous that a piece of ocean along the North Carolina coast is known to sailors around the world as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." It is here, along this coast in the open waters of the North Atlantic that sailor athletes from around the world come each May to test themselves and their boats in a special commitment of skill, determination and sacrifice called the Worrell 1000. Beginning in "South Beach" in Miami Beach, Florida on Sunday, May 6th, 2001, the event, like a waterborne Tour de France, races its way north along the coast, through 5 states, regrouping at 12 oceanfront cities, before finishing in Virginia Beach, Virginia on Saturday, May 19th, 2001. Each team consists of two sailors racing an Inter 20, fiberglass, twin-hulled boat called a catamaran and a shore crew of usually 2-4 people, to follow on shore and assist the sailors and service the boat at the checkpoint cities. At each oceanfront checkpoint the racers are required to come ashore through the surf and be timed-in for that leg. The next day at 10am, (except 6pm for two night legs) the racers restart together, launching from the beach, through the surf, bound for the next checkpoint. The winner of the race is the team that successfully completes all legs of the event with the lowest total time.

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