Yachting World

Close racing at Key West

  • January 19, 1999

Two one-design classes got a head start in the race for the Yachting Magazine Trophy, awarded to the overall Boat of the Week at GMC Yukon Yachting Key West Race…

Adrift

  • January 18, 1999

Konioukhov is closing on Auckland, but his Around Alone future is uncertain

Ainslie wins Laser Worlds

  • January 15, 1999

Britain has a new World Champion. Twenty one year old Olympic silver medallist, Ben Ainslie, from Lymington in Hampshire, capped off a remarkable season that has seen wins at Kiel…

The good, the bad and the ugly

  • January 13, 1999

Petersen's feet are mending (good), Konioukhov misses a waypoint (bad), And Davie is hammered by a gale (ugly)

So near and yet so far

  • January 9, 1999

So near and yet so far - Garside and Van Liew are within 300 miles of the finish line, with Yazykov close behind

Fossett’s mega cat is launched

  • December 22, 1998

While Steve Fossett was taking off in the Branson balloon in Marrakesh his Race contender was taking to the water in Auckland

On board: Clipper Report

  • December 12, 1998

Mother nature has finally dealt Ariel, our yacht in the Clipper '98 round the world race, a bum hand.

Mark Turner reports from The Race conference

  • December 10, 1998

EuroDisney, Paris, was once again the setting for a gathering of some of the world’s top offshore racing skippers, builders and designers, as Bruno Peyron brought his dream project, The…

Around Alone: 48 hours to leg 2 start

  • December 3, 1998

Of the 15 sailors here preparing to set off for Leg 2 of Around Alone this Saturday, December 5, no one understands the fury that may lie ahead better than…