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News from Happy Spirit

Three days in to the trip and crew aboard the Ocean 60 Happy Spirit are smokin'. But will they be brave enough to keep the kite up tonight?

Spirit crew revel in the conditions

Twenty two knots of boatspeed under blue sky and sun, things aboard the VO60 Spirit couldn't get much better... apart from the food of course

High spirits aboard VO60

A top speed of 19.8kts yesterday has more than made up for the lack of gourmet cuisine aboard Spirit

Sanuk catches a whopper!

After a hectic start and a spot of fishing, Mike Stevenson, skipper of Sanuk, found time to recall the last three days on the Atlantic

Girls for Sail on tour

Girls for Sail found time inbetween their chocolate eating binges and nail varnishing sessions to send this report from the start

Mollymawk diverts

Mollymawk Ross Hobson and Andi Newman's TJV cat is now limping in to Fernando de Noronha

Blue Box Sailing is planning to lead the youngest ever crew non-stop round Britain and establish a new world sailing record aboard the former Whitbread 60 yacht Intrum Justitia

And they’re off

After a frantic start Team Spirit are well underway enjoying their first dehydrated meal!

Van den Heede ahead of record

Jean Luc van den Heede is nearly two days ahead of Philippe Monnet's time at this stage of his global record attempt after 16 days at sea

Few hours to go

After a busy two week program in Las Palmas the ARC fleet is off this morning

Gilmour wins Nippon Cup

Australia's Peter Gilmour and his Pizza-La Sailing Team defeated Sweden's Magnus Holmberg and the SeaLife Rangers 3-1 today to claim his record eighth Nippon Cup title

Less than a day to ARC start

With less than 24 hours to the start of the ARC 2003, participants gathered today at the Santa Catalina Hotel for the skippers' briefing