One of the country’s leading yacht insurers - Navigators and General - has warned owners of racing yachts to check their synthetic backstays after noting a significant increase in the…
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In training with Minorca
If you’re looking for some pre-season race training next year, why not consider Minorca Sailing Holiday’s Mediterranean Race Training Week
VOR: Race within a race
For the first time in the long history of the Whitbread, now the Volvo Ocean Race, competitors will participate in an offshore race as part of the third leg of…
Road test for GBR Challenge
GBR Challenge has confirmed its participation in the Road to the America's Cup regatta in Auckland, 11-17 February 2002
GBR Diary: Will I’Anson
This week's America's Cup diary comes from GBR Challenge's mid-bow/sewerman and rigger Will I'Anson
ARC Diary 19
Firefly, 14 December 2001: It all started with that bet of a bottle of rum with Duncan
ARC Diary 19
Firefly, 14 December 2001: It all started with that bet of a bottle of rum with Duncan
Life at the wet end
Rain doesn't stop play as downpours try to dampen spirits on the finish line of ARC 2001
Feeling rum
Arrival in St Lucia means the chance to unwind, and time to enjoy the local spirit, as the crew of Firefly demonstrated on Thursday morning
Preview: February 2002
So you want to make a living out of sailing?...
Contents: January 2002
. Leader Why technology is interfering with our ability to bring you the most exciting Volvo pictures On the wind Ellen MacArthur, Mike Golding and Alex Bennett star in the…
Ellen awarded MBE
Buckingham is reported to have announced that Ellen MacArthur has been awarded the prestigious Royal recognition of achievement, the MBE
Not green nor cabbage looking
Firefly's Duncan Kent discovers the culprit for some strange odours in the dying days of the ARC crossing
ARC Diary 17
Firefly, 12 December 2001: Another casualty added itself to the breakages list last night, right in the middle of happy hour. Without warning the galley sink unit disappeared into the…
ARC Diary 17
Firefly, 12 December 2001: Another casualty added itself to the breakages list last night, right in the middle of happy hour. Without warning the galley sink unit disappeared into the…
GBR wins in New Zealand
The superfit boys of GBR Challenge have secured their first victory – in the Manakau Half Marathon
ARC record tumbles
Separated by just 13 minutes, the first two ARC yachts cross the line in St Lucia, smashing the existing record in the process
ARC Diary 16
Firefly, 11 December 2001: I have just asked Stewart and Duncan what they will do first when we arrive on Rodney Bay. Apart from the obvious, ribald replies both were…
ARC Diary 16
Firefly, 11 December 2001: I have just asked Stewart and Duncan what they will do first when we arrive on Rodney Bay. Apart from the obvious, ribald replies both were…
The Becks and Ellen show
Sunday night’s Sports Personality of the Year Award on BBC was always going to Old Trafford for me, Ron