Happy Spirits up

Blowing a spinnaker leads to some sail experimentation and it's flapjacks for tea

Winchless wenches

Girls for sail settle in and food moves higher on their agenda

One rule to measure them by……

Matthew Sheahan talks to Alinghi's and Oracle's chief designers about how the new Americas Cup class rule will affect the next generation of boats

Spirit leads ARC racing fleet

Yachitng World's Mike Kopman is aboard the VO60 Spirit currently dashing across the Atlantic at the head of the ARC racing fleet

News from Happy Spirit

Three days in to the trip and crew aboard the Ocean 60 Happy Spirit are smokin'. But will they be brave enough to keep the kite up tonight?

Spirit crew revel in the conditions

Twenty two knots of boatspeed under blue sky and sun, things aboard the VO60 Spirit couldn't get much better... apart from the food of course

Matthew Sheahan reports from the America's Cup media frenzy in Geneva as more details of the next America's Cup emerge

High spirits aboard VO60

A top speed of 19.8kts yesterday has more than made up for the lack of gourmet cuisine aboard Spirit

Sanuk catches a whopper!

After a hectic start and a spot of fishing, Mike Stevenson, skipper of Sanuk, found time to recall the last three days on the Atlantic

Girls for Sail on tour

Girls for Sail found time inbetween their chocolate eating binges and nail varnishing sessions to send this report from the start

Mollymawk diverts

Mollymawk Ross Hobson and Andi Newman's TJV cat is now limping in to Fernando de Noronha

Blue Box Sailing is planning to lead the youngest ever crew non-stop round Britain and establish a new world sailing record aboard the former Whitbread 60 yacht Intrum Justitia

Where on earth?

On the eve of the ACC venue announcement Matthew Sheahan reports from Geneva and considers where the party might be