The EDS Atlantic Challenge fleet skippers have unanimously agreed to postpone the start of the fifth leg – from Boston to St Malo – to allow Roland Jourdain to get…
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Rolex Fastnet Race – Around the ragged rock
Sunday afternoon heralds the start of the infamous Rolex Fastnet Race from Cowes - a 600-mile offshore yacht race around Ireland's Fastnet Rock, and back to the finish in Plymouth
Jessica finds wind and more wind
Jessica Daw's Times Clipper leg from Rio to New York on Liverpool Clipper has taken on a new turn with a breeze coming from two directions. But it is doing…
What happened to Team Adventure?
The Monster.com Transat Record attempt has come to a screeching halt. Many of you will have heard this news already. Heart Break and a few tears from me. A serious…
Endeavour snatches a clear win
The J-Class have been battling it out for the second day - with one day left to go, Endeavour and Velsheda both share the same number of points
Team Adventure begins Atlantic record bid
Team Adventure, skippered by Cam Lewis, left New York last night on an attempt to beat the 11-year old transatlantic record
Yachting World sponsors major Jubilee Trophy
When two hundred of the world's most beautiful yachts gather in Cowes next week, judging the most beautiful of all will be no easy task.
Sill to re-join EDS Atlantic Challenge
Just days after dismasting Roland Jourdain has announced that Sill will re-join the EDS Challenge with a new or repaired rig
Spirit of Jethou hits and misses at Skandia Life Cowes Week
Peter Ogden's slippy Swan 60 Spirit of Jethou has been retrospectively pipped at the post and denied the New York Yacht Club Trophy at Skandia Life Cowes Week
Bondy’s back
America's Cup history maker and former billionaire businessman Alan Bond is here at Skandia Life Cowes Week
Shirley Robertson joins Nicorette for Fastnet
Britain's Olympic gold medallist Shirley Robertson will compete in this year's Rolex Fastnet Race onboard the Swedish maxi Nicorette
Preview: October 2001
Flying south
Contents: September 2001
A pre-season cruise in Sweden's beautiful Bohuslan region aboard the new Fantasi 44 is as good as it gets, says Malcolm White
Classic double whammy at Cowes
Having won the Britannia Cup yesterday, will the man behind GBR Challenge score the classic Cowes Week double whammy by taking the New York Yacht Club Challenge Cup today?
Final stages of Skandia Life Cowes Week
It’s been a heavy weather week during which some boats have thrived while others have struggled, but could tomorrow’s forecast yet undo the wet and wild sections of the fleet?…
More stiff breeze for Skandia Life Cowes Week
It's going to be another big day for the sailmakers here in Cowes as forecasts predict Force 5-6 southwesterlies, calming slightly during the day
Lunchtime tally totals three dismasted, two sunk and one disabled
With more than 1,000 boats on the water, there's bound to be the odd incident, however as gales sweep the Solent, Skandia Life Cowes Week could be mistaken for a…
Head of GBR Challenge leads by example
Peter Harrison, innovator and backer of the British America's Cup challenge, walks away with the most prestigious cup at Skandia Life Cowes Week, the Britannia Cup... Also an insight into…
Snipe Nationals
Thirty one boats turned out for the Snipe national championship on one of the warmest weekends in the year (27-30 July). The GBR boats were all happy to see the…
Code flag Yankee hoisted at the RYS
With the expectation of gales this afternoon the tension is palpable here at Cowes and several classes have decided not to race