Route du Rhum skipper Lia Ditton explains the reasons why she intends to chop her Open 40 yacht in half 30/11/06

Teenager Mike Perham and his Dad have reached Lanzarote on their solo transatlantic voyages

ARC day 2

Competitors enjoy north-east trade winds on second day of ARC 29/11/06

Bernard Stamm regains lost ground over second placed Kojiro Shiraishi in Velux 5 Oceans Race 29/11/06

More breeze for Bernard Stamm as he celebrates his birthday aboard Cheminees Poujoulat 29/11/06

Knox-Johnston is firing along, gaining on the leaders but running out of whisky - he reports 28/11/06

ARC log from Northern Child

ARC competitor Julian Sincock with the latest log from the British Swan 51 Northern Child 27/11/07

Exciting conditions for penultimate Garmin Hamble Winter Series races 27/11/06

Video footage from the dramatic rescue of Alex Thomson including abandonment of Hugo Boss 27/11/06

Golding and Thomson make steady progress toward South Africa. Golding reports 27/11/06