The finalists for the Yachting Journalists' Association Raymarine YJA Yachtsman of the Year Awards 2003 have been announced
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High Spirits – the record is broken
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
Girls for Sail celebrate half way
The winners of the rubbish challenge and bad taste competition
ARC record tumbles
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
King of Spain to sail Volvo Ocean Race
King Juan Carlos I will sail on one of the inshore races in Galicia
Dining in style on board Berenice
Roast lamb, potatoes and three veg as nine crew sit down at the gimballed table in the honduras mahogany-panelled saloon
Air-conditioned bliss and movies for X-to-Sea
All quiet in their own patch of ocean
Girls for Sail get ready for half way party
Juggling balls, Rubbish Challenge and backgammon - is the ocean getting to them?
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
Campello and Jaggi top Bonaire windsurfing finals
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.
Spirit shoots the breeze
The record attempt is back on the rails as Spirit finds the wind again and talk turns to rum and rotis
Happy Spirit finds the promised squalls
Hoovering the bilges in 40 knot squalls, whales and lightning - never a dull moment on board
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
Spirit dispirited
Scorching sun and little wind as the crew fear the record might be slipping from their grasp
X-To-Sea – 1,000 miles to go
The sun's shining and the crew keeping a wary lookout for the Atlantic rowers
Girls for Sail back online
The girls on board Albatross seem to be having more luck with fishing than sailing
Spirit still in front
...and it's a beautiful day at sea
Half way for X-to-Sea
Champagne, a 244 mile day's run and 22.5 knots on the clock