Bye-bye from Girls for Sail

Girls for Sail are currently beautifying themselves in preparation for an imminent finish in St Lucia

Mike Golding sailing Ecover has won Le Défi Atlantique, beating Vincent Riou by two hours and 43 minutes after 4,100 miles of extraordinary close racing

Having rounded Cape Horn last week, Jean luc van den Heede, on his fourth global record attempt, is now in the big depression-zone

Ecover takes second from Thomson

In the tricky, light conditions Mike Golding's upwind flyer Ecover has snatched second place from Alex Thomson's AT Racing

A news story on cupineurope.com reveals that there's a 70 per cent chance that Patrizio Bertelli will now be at the 2007 America's Cup

Tracy Edwards and her crew have decided against another Jules Verne attempt in Maiden II next year in favour of preparing the boat for The Oryx Cup

Team Alinghi, winners of the America's Cup 2003, will host a new event, the UBS Trophy, Newport, Rhode Island next year

Two keen dinghy sailors have spotted a gap in the dinghy event calendar and have combined resources to launch a national championship for clubs

100 boats finished

The arrival of Alberto Larranaga's Moody 54 Dilema II today brought the number of ARC boats tied up in St Lucia to 100

Mirabella V's 90m mast has been completed and once it's been dressed it'll be ready for stepping

Jean-Pierre Dick whose yacht Virbac dismasted yesterday morning is continuing to race under jury rig

Jean Luc van den Heede who set off from France on his fourth global record attempt in early November has just rounded Cape Horn

The Caribbean Island of Bonaire once again played host to an exciting week of freestyle windsurfing despite light winds