America's Cup challengers show their paces...
Contents: March 2002
. From the Editor It?s amazing what Ellen MacArthur has packed into just 26 years. Now she?s a household name in virtually every sailing nation in the world On the…
Orange arrives in Vannes
The maxi-catamaran Orange arrived at the Multiplast Yard in Vannes at 0810 this morning
News Corp snaps rudder
Team News Corp lost her rudder yesterday while competing in the fourth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race
Geronimo ready for Jules Verne
Olivier de Kersauson's new mast is stepped and he's ready to leave, while Bruno Peyron is in a fight against time for a repair
Orange to join segments
Attempts to unstep the broken mast of Bruno Peyron's maxi-catamaran Orange have been thwarted by high winds today.
British Tornado boys win Tornado regatta in Portugal
Hugh Styles and Adam May are in top form for the forthcoming Tornado Europeans
Victory for GBR Challenge
GBR Challenge have recorded their first victory on New Zealand waters, beating the American One World team by five seconds
Orange’s mast breaks
Mast snaps just half an hour after Bruno Peyron's maxi-catamaran sets off on a Jules Verne bid
Primo Cup
The Solent in February is not normally a pleasant place to race, whereas the Cote d’azur is. It was this conclusion that led the crew of Asterix to enter the…
Gul to support 29er series
Gul International has announced its continued support of the 29er class
US to host Optimist worlds
This year's Optimist world championship will take place at Corpus Christi YC from 3-14 July
VOR boats to face more strong winds
With winds forecast to touch gale force conditions again later today, the VO60s will continue to face wet and windy conditions
VOR fleets splits round Falkland Islands
illbruck has lost some ground and is now only 40 miles ahead of Amer Sports One
Thiercelin signs up for Around Alone
Around Alone 2002-03 race organisers have announced that renowned French skipper, Marc Thiercelin, has registered his entry into the Open 60 class
GBR pipped at the post
Light and shifty conditions saw GBR 52 foiled by the weather gods against the Swedish Victory challenge, despite the British team's ability to hold onto a comprehensive 32-second lead for…
djuice heads east of Falklands
After a long, cold and icy leg from Auckland to Argentina, djuice rounded the treacherous Cape Horn on February 10 at 1801
IACC designer denies espionage
Former Team New Zealand designer Laurie Davidson has denied allegations of design theft made by former OneWorld colleague Sean Reeves
VOR – Day 17
Neal McDonald, skipper of ASSA ABLOY gave a vivid analogy of the boat being ‘tossed around like a cork’, as his wife, Lisa, skipper of Amer Sports Too, was rounding…
Action at the Road to America’s Cup regatta
Davidson calls press conference and Swedes take the British. Keith Wheatley reports from Auckland