ARC countdown

Hundreds of rally participants gathered together in Muelle Deportivo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria last weekend to join in the official ARC opening ceremony

ABN AMRO 1 news

Mike Sanderson, skipper aboard ABN AMRO 1 with VOR news from the front of the fleet

The Spanish VOR yacht, movistar reached Portugal yesterday to carry out inspection and repair work to structural damage which occurred during the first 24 hours of the race

WA leads Clipper fleet

Western Australia is currently leading the Clipper round the world fleet enroute to Durban. Here's the team's latest diary

ARC countdown

Hundreds of rally participants gathered together in Muelle Deportivo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria last weekend to join in the official ARC opening ceremony

Olivier de Kersauson's 110ft trimaran, Geronimo, is on target for Los Angeles to Honolulu record

Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron on Virbac-Paprec retain Transat Jacques Vabre IMOCA lead through doldrums

Transat Jacques Vabre competitors Giovanni Soldini and Vittorio Malingri were rescued from the stricken ORMA 60 trimaran TIM Progetto Italia last night

Flanagan crosses Biscay

Round the world adventurer Adrian Flanagan crosses Bay of Biscay off his list

Brasil 1 (Torben Grael), the very first entry from Brazil in the Volvo Ocean Race, has moved into the lead overnight

Team movistar are currently nearing the south Portuguese coast. Here's their latest report

Ericsson navigator Steve Hayles reported that they had stopped the boat in the water and crew members Jason Carrington and Richard Mason were in the water cutting away ropes from…

TIM Progetto Italia capsizes

Transat Jacques Vabre sailors Giovanni Soldini and Vittorio Malingri have capsized 400m south-west of Dakar

Competitors experienced their first chill of winter in yesterday's fifth event in the Garmin Hamble Winter Series