The ISAF Rolex World Sailors of the Year 2001 awards have nominated Ellen MacArthur as their female winner and Brazilian Laser champion Robert Scheidt as the male winner

News from the front of the VOR

Kevin Shoebridge aboard Tyco comments about their position and the sort of conditions they are likely to expect within the next few days

Kingfisher-Foncia has regained the lead from Groupama as the leaders of the multihull class emerge from the swamp of the Doldrums

Australia II will complete another successful chapter in its remarkable sailing career when she is returned to the Western Australian Maritime Museum

djuice chases the lead

In an abating breeze, djuice dragons is chasing Tyco for the lead while illbruck is struggling to keep the water out

VOR latest

Tyco hangs onto a slim lead as the Volvo fleet heads south into the Southern Ocean

Spar trouble for TNZ

America’s Cup holders Team New Zealand are experiencing problems with their pioneering cathedral rigs

At 1616 GMT today, skipper Kevin Shoebridge and the crew of Team Tyco were leading the second leg of the Volvo Ocean Race

Ellen MacArthur and Alain Gautier are struggling to defend Foncia-Kingfisher's 22-mile lead in the multihull class of the Transat Jacques Vabre

VOR final preparations

Tomorrow morning the eight VOR teams are facing a 6650-nautical mile leg to Sydney, Australia

VOR – the week that was

A look at the seventh week of the first leg of the 2001/2002 Volvo Ocean Race Calm between the storms – has illbruck’s staggering protest result planted doubts about the…

PlayStation smashes the Round the Island record

Woman rower alone in Atlantic

Debra Veal, who is taking part in the Ward Evans Atlantic Rowing Challenge, chats about her daily routine and how she copes with life alone in mid Atlantic. Veal set…

Less than an hour past The Needles, PlayStation skipper Steve Fossett knew that to carry on would risk damage both to boat and crew

 . Leader We should ignore calls to cancel regattas and postpone the America?s Cup, and carry on sailing On the Wind PlayStation could have cracked the 700-mile a day barrier,…

New crew for Assa Abloy

Two new crewmen have been signed up for the second leg of the VOR aboard Assa Abloy

Steve Fossett's maxicat PlayStation has begun her attempt to break Tracy Edwards' Cowes-Dinard record