ARC Diary 4

Firefly, 29 November 2001: The name of today’s game is hunt the log book

SEB leads tacking battle

SEB leads the tacking battle south despite losing ace navigator Marcel van Triest

Flushed with success, having won in the Open 50 class in the Transat Jacques Vabre race (Le Havre - Salvador), Alex Bennett has signed up for his first round the…

ARC Diary 3

Firefly, 28 November 2001: Olga is not a lady I would like to meet. Nor, I can assure you, would you

Sailors win top awards

Three British sailors have taken top titles at the BBC South Sports Awards

Lark winter champs

A strong fleet of 34 Larks travelled to Queen Mary SC on 24-25 November for the Winter Championship

The Swedish Volvo Ocean Race entry SEB rounded Eclipse Island at 0348 this morning

Keith Kilpatrick, the sick crewman aboard Amer Sports One, has been taken off the boat and transfered to the Albany hospital

Great American II breaks record

Great American II, a 53-foot trimaran has completed the 15,000-mile voyage to Australia in 68 days 10 hours 7 minutes 52 seconds, breaking a record that had stood for 146

With GBR Challenge based halfway round the world in Auckland, it’s easy to forget that Britain is warming up for its first attempt at the America’s Cup in 16 years.…

ARC Diary 2

Firefly, 27 November: Our watches are becoming better established and the only sign of dissent so far is that Duncan is a compulsive whistler

ARC Diary 1

Firefly, 26 November: We started in a nailbiting melee of other (much larger) yachts, ten or twelve of us at the pin end of the line just inches apart. How…

Big winds stop racing at 14 worlds

Strong winds forced the postponement of the third day’s racing at the International 14 world championship in Bermuda yesterday

Super Skiff Series in Aus

Three more heats in the Australian 18 Footers League Super Skiff Series, sponsored by the Club Marine insurance company, took place on Saturday 24 November

Rich Wilson and Bill Biewenga sailing the trimaran Great American II continued to maintain a one day's lead in their attempt to break the sailing record from New York to…