A total of 280 Optimist sailors gathered for their class inland championship at Grafham Water SC last weekend

Construction starts on The Transat Race Village this week in Plymouth

Skandia today unveiled the yacht that international yachtsman, Nick Moloney, will race in this winter's Vendée Globe

In 14 days from now the signal from the Royal Navy's HMS Tyne will mark the start of the 12th single-handed transatlantic race on Bank Holiday Monday, 31 May

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Goodison qualifies in eighth place for gold fleet

A fourth in the last race was enough for the Danish crew to clinch the world championship title in Santander

Lack of wind forced the cancellation of yesterday's racing at the second round of the 18ft Skiff grand prix event leaving Rob Dulson and his team in first place

Robert Scheidt leads Laser worlds

470 worlds

Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield, who will be representing Great Britain at the Olympics this summer in Athens, will be leaving Croatia with a bronze medal from the 2004 470

Laser worlds

The Harken Laser World Championship completed in Turkey today with four more countries qualifiying for the 2004 Olympics fleet

British sailors Rogers and Glanfield move up to bronze medal position going into final day of the 470 world championship in Croatia

The finals of the Finn European Championship and Yngling World Championship took place today

Bonduelle the winner

Jean Le Cam skippers Bonduelle to victory in the 1000 milles de Calais