After 38 days at sea Orange II, Bruno Peyron's 120ft maxi catamaran, is now 10 days ahead of Steve Fossett's record

More snowman building than sailing at the he National 12 Midwinter championship on the east coast last weekend

Injured crew in Global Challenge

Global Challenge yacht Team Save the Children is heading for Hobart, Tasmania in gale force conditions to put ashore an injured crewman

Injured crew evacuated

Team Save the Children has successfully evacuated injured Global Challenge crew

Doha 2006 has a 1,298-mile lead over Cheyenne but fleet but prepares for tricky time ahead on approach to the Horn

Brian Thompson, skipper aboard the Oryx Quest yacht Doha 2006 sent this latest report from deep in the Southern Ocean

Global Challenge round-up

BP Explorer and Barclays Adventurer are racing neck and neck under spinnaker on Leg 4 towards Tasmania

The crew of Geronimo have been able to assess the nature and extent of the latest damage to the trimaran's front crossbeam and have decided to retire

Will Oxley - navigator aboard Doha 2006 - with thoughts on icebergs, and how to avoid them

Follow Fossett

See how far he's got on his non-stop solo round the world flight

Vince Horey and Vyv Townend win 34th Hoo Freezer event