Elaine Bunting

Orange mast repair underway

  • February 16, 2002

The top six metres of mast will be rebuilt, but will it be in time for another start this season?

Geronimo ready for Jules Verne

  • February 15, 2002

Olivier de Kersauson's new mast is stepped and he's ready to leave, while Bruno Peyron is in a fight against time for a repair

  • February 14, 2002

Mast snaps just half an hour after Bruno Peyron's maxi-catamaran sets off on a Jules Verne bid

  • January 4, 2002

Yachting World Features Editor Elaine Bunting reports on her time with Mission Antarctica, the environmental flying squad that helps clear up the Antarctic: This has been my most unusual and…

  • August 8, 2001

EDS Atlantic Challenge leader dismasted and out, accusations of cheating hang over others, and is it now a one-horse race?

  • July 5, 2001

Yesterday was a difficult day for Mike Golding and the crew on board Ecover. In light winds, which came and vanished in seemingly random patches, we began the tricky part…

  • July 4, 2001

Read Yachting World Features Editor Elaine Bunting’s first report, filed straight from the navigation table of Mike Golding’s Ecover, during the first leg of the EDS Atlantic Challenge

  • July 3, 2001

In searingly hot weather in St Malo, the final preparations are being made to the seven yachts about to start Sir Chay Blyth’s new EDS Atlantic Challenge. The race for…

BT Challenge: LG FLATRON wins

  • June 30, 2001

Conrad Humphreys and his crew on LG FLATRON crowned their victory in the BT Global Challenge this afternoon by winning the final leg for a convincing 1st place overall. They…

BT Challenge: race for first and last

  • June 4, 2001

Logica, leading the BT Global Challenge fleet, manages to squeeze round the coast of Africa and extend their lead over the back of the fleet. Skipper Jeremy Troughton reports: ‘Once…

Part of Team Philips found

  • May 31, 2001

A chunk of the ill-fated catamaran’s accommodation pod is sighted after nearly six months adrift

Volvo Ocean Race launches

  • May 10, 2001

The Volvo Ocean Race entries are emerging from their builders and training has begun in earnest before the start in September. Here’s a rundown on the seven syndicates and a…

Under appeal

  • April 21, 2001

Two BT Challenge skippers are fighting for their hard-won places against penalty decisions