Yachting World

Happy Spirits up

  • November 28, 2003

Blowing a spinnaker leads to some sail experimentation and it's flapjacks for tea

Winchless wenches

  • November 28, 2003

Girls for sail settle in and food moves higher on their agenda

Spirit leads ARC racing fleet

  • November 27, 2003

Yachitng World's Mike Kopman is aboard the VO60 Spirit currently dashing across the Atlantic at the head of the ARC racing fleet

News from Happy Spirit

  • November 27, 2003

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

  • November 26, 2003

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

  • November 25, 2003

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

Sanuk catches a whopper!

  • November 25, 2003

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

  • November 25, 2003

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

Mollymawk diverts

  • November 25, 2003

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

  • November 25, 2003

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

  • November 24, 2003

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

Van den Heede ahead of record

  • November 24, 2003

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