Shifty, short and action packed, today's America's Cup fleet racing saw a return to form for the big players

Major US yacht clubs to adopt IRC

With this move IRC has become a truly global rating system and coupled with the Spanish move away from IMS means the demise of that system

Russell Coutts has won the Champion of Champions race at the Hanseatic Lloyd-sponsored Dragon 75th Anniversary Regatta in St Tropez

A week of match racing may have ordered the pack but today looked more like a reshuffle as America's Cup Act 3 gets under way

New Zealand will host 2000 sailors for The Coastal Classic Yacht Race in the Bay of Islands

The Irish team of John Ross-Murphy, Ailbe Millerick and Ed Peel has won the Hanseatic Lloyd-sponsored Dragon 75th anniversary race in St Tropez

Global Challenge fleet starts to converge on the road to the Doldrums. We look at what lies ahead

Preview: December 2004

Mirabella might have been stealing the limelight, both on and off the rocks...

Howling winds at the Hanseatic Lloyd-sponsored Dragon 75th anniversary event in St Tropez forced the postponement of today's racing

Kiwis come good when it counts, Cup holders last of the big boys - what is going on as America's Cup Act 2 ends?

A win and a second puts the Irish team of Ward Woods, Brian Matthews and Mark Pettitt in the top spot at the Dragon event in St Tropez

Cup or no Cup, losing an America's Cup race is no fun when you see it for real

The first day's racing at the Dragon 75th anniversary was marred by light airs but all three races took place

West pays for Global Challenge yachts, and water poses a problem for Save the Children

Iain Percy describes how he's getting used to a boat three times longer, 37 times heavier and a hundred times more complex than a Star