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Southampton: an uneasy mood?
An absence of croissants and BOGOF puddles: was Friday a gloomy financial forecast?
Bottoms up
Cheers for a memorable award
Pindar shows her heels
The super-powerful but ill-fated new Pindar finally shows what she can do by winning her…
It’s pants at Skandia Cowes Week
Why lucky knickers are all the rage
Tumbleweed in Antigua
After Antigua Sailing Week - deserted!
Pete Goss’s daring voyage
A Southern Ocean voyage that puts modern races in the shade is in the offing
Why Peyron plays Purcell
Loick Peyron likes to play Purcell and Handel's Messiah at sea - to warn off…
Leopard and the ‘sail-powered motorboat’ record
Why reviving the Atlantic 'powered' record is a step backwards and nothing to boast about
Soldini celebrates total supremacy
Giovanni Soldini's dominance of the Class 40 fleet of the Artemis Transat make it a…
Peyron wins by going slower
Going slower is harder work, reveals Loick Peyron, grand master of solo sailing
Stopping the killing
Can't something be done to prevent yachts injuring and killing marine creatures?
Tragic deaths
Why marine mammals being run down by yachts is a tragedy
North Atlantic ‘teeming with life’
Are unsually light winds the cause of so many marine wildlife sightings?
Whale collisions a perennial risk
The number of yacht collisions with whales could make a catalogue - like this one
Man bites shark
Solo sailor Vincent Riou's violent encounter with a basking shark
More Transat roadkill
Keel bulb is embedded in side of whale
Guillemot enduring the pain
Why bashing hard to windward with a broken rib might be worthwhile training
Keeping an eye out
Is this the most startling spinnaker logo ever?
Foie gras to go
An imminent transatlantic arrival sees Phil Sharp dreaming of fine dining