Holt has appointed Peter Marchant to the new position of works director at its Burnham-on-Crouch distribution centre

Groupama crossed the TJV finish line in Salvador da Bahia this morning (Sunday 16 November) at 0810hrs and 41s GMT, or 0510hrs 41s local time

Taking the favoured westerly route overnight, Mike Golding and Brian Thompson have snatched second place in the Open 60 monohulls in the TJV

Top crews line up for Nippon Cup

Nine top international skippers, including seven America's Cup veterans and the reigning Swedish Match Tour champion, head to Hayama, Japan for the Nippon Cup this weekend

Coutts and Sundby win Rolex awards

Russell Coutts and Siren Sundby were presented with the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2003 in Barcelona last night

Jean Luc Van Den Heede is just ahead of Philippe Monnet record breaking time during the early stage of the non-stop, singlehanded global challenge

The UK Sailing Academy based at Cowes on the Isle of Wight has introduced a Christmas gift voucher scheme for sailing courses

Close encounter with a fridge

Sam Davies writes gingerly, with very sore hands after spending hours at the helm of Team Cowes, about encounters of a very bizarre kind

Vigo for VOR start

Spain makes history today as Vigo, in the north-west region of Galicia, has been chosen to host the start of the next Volvo Ocean Race

Ecover back up to third

Although Ecover is now back up to third in the TJV Open 60 monohulls, she is still over 200 miles behind Virbac

The British team Sunnucks/Self moved into the overall lead of the Aruba Heineken Catamaran Regatta yesterday

Virbac storms ahead

Virbac, the leading monohull in the Transat Jaques Vabre, has extended her overnight lead to 108 miles

The condition of a crewmember who was airlifted off Geronimo last night with suspected Meningitis is less serious than first thought

When news of Joe Vittoria's plans to build a 246ft (75m) sloop with a 300ft (91m) carbon fibre mast permeated the superyacht industry...