The VOR 70 Spirit crossed the finish line at Rodney Bay, St Lucia at 0152 UTC on Friday morning and broke the existing ARC record

Happy Happy Spirit

Beautiful day, a spring clean, dorado and champagne for supper but a new hurricane is lurking over the horizon

X-to-Sea day 12

Three quarters of the way there and paella for supper

The VOR 60 Spirit, with YW Feature Writer Mike Kopman on board, crossed the finish line in Rodney Bay at 0152 on December 5, breaking the existing record by over

Roast lamb, potatoes and three veg as nine crew sit down at the gimballed table in the honduras mahogany-panelled saloon

A new record and another on the way?

Yellow Pages world sailing speed record came within a fraction of a knot of being broken yesterday by a sailboard and a new world record was set

Ricardo Campello (JP, Neil Pryde) and Karin Jaggi (F2, Arrows) emerge top of the pile at the end of day one of the Professional Windsurfing Association Freestyle finals in Bonaire.

The record attempt is back on the rails as Spirit finds the wind again and talk turns to rum and rotis

Sailing Speed Record About To Tumble?

The world sailing speed record came close to being broken last week and current weather forecasts suggest that better conditions could be on the way today

Scorching sun and little wind as the crew fear the record might be slipping from their grasp