Yachting World

Red Funnel this weekend

  • March 22, 2005

The Red Funnel Easter Challenge this weekend marks the start of a busy Solent summer of yachting

  • March 22, 2005

Ben Ainslie's Olympic gold-medal winning Finn arrives at Maritime Museum in Falmouth

Was Mirabella’s anchor too small?

  • March 21, 2005

Disturbing questions of prodedure aboard large sailing yachts and the way the weight for anchors is calculated are highlighted in a critical official report on what happened when Mirabella V,…

  • March 21, 2005

Having swung wide around the Cape of Good Hope, Doha 2006 consider their options as a tropical cyclone threatens ahead - Thompson sent this report

  • March 21, 2005

A good, working breeze made for exciting sailing in the second weekend of the Warsash Spring Series

  • March 21, 2005

At the halfway point we're in that longed for 1st place. Now is not the time to let up says Global Challenge skipper Dee Caffari

  • March 20, 2005

The dangers are where land and sea meet, but the deep ocean is lonesome, gruelling - and beautiful. Global Challenge skipper Eero Lehtinen explains

  • March 18, 2005

Uniquely Singapore, the yacht that will represent Singapore in the Clipper 05-06 Round the World Yacht Race was officially named this week

No pineapples, please

  • March 18, 2005

Fellow Global Challenge skippers try to cheer Eero Lehtinen up and he vows a comeback

  • March 18, 2005

As the Global Challenge fleet heads towards Waypoint Bravo, Imagine. It Done leads the pack after BP Explorer decides to go south

  • March 17, 2005

Clive Cosby, skipper of the Global Challenge yacht Team Stelmar sent yachtingworld.com his latest thoughts from the middle of the Southern Ocean

  • March 17, 2005

John Stewart and Giles Mackie are probably the most southerly Irishmen in the world: they're celebrating St Patrick's Day aboard leading Global Challenge yacht BP Explorer

  • March 16, 2005

At 02.23 this morning Bruno Peyron and team crossed the finish line at Ushant setting a new world speed record of 50 days

British sailors progress to VOR finals

  • March 16, 2005

Two out of three Volvo RYA Keelboat Team Members have progressed through to the final trials for the eight places onboard the TEAM ABN AMRO Youth Boat for the VOR

  • March 16, 2005

The skipper and three core crew members for TEAM ABN AMRO's second boat in the Volvo Ocean Race 2005/06 was announced in Paris yesterday.

Orange countdown

  • March 15, 2005

Bruno Peyron's 120ft maxi cat, Orange II, will complete her round the world record attempt in less than 24 hours