Hoovering the bilges in 40 knot squalls, whales and lightning - never a dull moment on board
Yachting World
Dining in style on board Berenice
Roast lamb, potatoes and three veg as nine crew sit down at the gimballed table in the honduras mahogany-panelled saloon
Air-conditioned bliss and movies for X-to-Sea
All quiet in their own patch of ocean
Girls for Sail get ready for half way party
Juggling balls, Rubbish Challenge and backgammon - is the ocean getting to them?
Campello and Jaggi top Bonaire windsurfing finals
Ricardo Campello (JP, Neil Pryde) and Karin Jaggi (F2, Arrows) emerge top of the pile at the end of day one of the Professional Windsurfing Association Freestyle finals in Bonaire.
Spirit dispirited
Scorching sun and little wind as the crew fear the record might be slipping from their grasp
X-To-Sea – 1,000 miles to go
The sun's shining and the crew keeping a wary lookout for the Atlantic rowers
Girls for Sail back online
The girls on board Albatross seem to be having more luck with fishing than sailing
Spirit still in front
...and it's a beautiful day at sea
Half way for X-to-Sea
Champagne, a 244 mile day's run and 22.5 knots on the clock
Bonaire PWA 2003 Freestyle World Cup starts today
The Professional Windsurfing Association's big event is running from 2-9 December on the Caribbean island of Bonaire.
X-to-Sea log, day 7
Jam donuts, working on tans, spinnaker mended and all's well on board
Berenice – a third of the way and another unidentified fish
We cannot go dead downwinbd so we're zig-zagging across the Atlantic
Spirit slows in the calms
Squalls and clams but horror of all horrors, the loo is blocked
80 knot squalls forecast but the food is getting better
Spirit still leads the fleet as the crew's thoughts turn to St Lucia and rum cocktails
Frying bacon raises spirits
Bacon sandwiches and chilli to celebrate Spirit's halfway point
A spot of needlework aboard X-To-Sea
The sixth day aboard X-to-Sea was spent rebuilding a shredded kite
Berenice goes for the gybes
The crew aboard Berenice spent yesterday perfecting their gybing skills
Mollymawk finishes Transat
Ross Hobson and Andi Newman's 50ft catamaran limped across the Transat Jacques Vabre finish line yesterday with damaged mast foot
Flying fish and Roman baths
Mike Kopman reports from on board Spirit at the front of the ARC fleet