Champagne, a 244 mile day's run and 22.5 knots on the clock
Yachting World
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
Happy Spirits up
Blowing a spinnaker leads to some sail experimentation and it's flapjacks for tea
Winchless wenches
Girls for sail settle in and food moves higher on their agenda
Spirit leads ARC racing fleet
Yachitng World's Mike Kopman is aboard the VO60 Spirit currently dashing across the Atlantic at the head of the ARC racing fleet
The agony and the X-to-Sea
Life-lines save crew member during near broach aboard X-to-Sea
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?
Girl for Sail spot Shark
At least they think it was!
Historic launch of world’s largest sloop, Mirabella V
David Glenn joined the crowds thronging the banks of the River Itchen to watch the world's largest sloop Mirabella V emerge from VT's Woolston yard, the last yacht to launch…
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
…and the winner is
Valencia