After a day of scorching speeds in the south, Fila has succumbed to the inevitable and begun to converge on the rhumb line route favoured by Kingfisher and Ecover

More than 200 yachts crossed the start line off the Royal Yacht Squadron this morning including the J-Class and thirty-seven 12-Metres

Laser Masters worlds

Day five of the Laser Masters world championship took place in superb conditions – sun, fresh breeze and big surfing waves

Mike Golding’s Ecover has taken the lead as the southerly option goes sour in the fifth leg of the EDS Atlantic Challenge

Andy Beadsworth, Ian Walker and the rest of the GBR Challenge match racing crew will be home in time for the start of the America’s Cup Jubilee after all -…

Good steady breeze in the southerly section of the fleet has skimmed Fila into the lead at twice the speed of second placed Ecover

Having followed Jourdain’s Sill into the right breeze, Scarabelli’s Fila is now leading the fifth leg of the EDS Atlantic Challenge

The Danish Open 2001 is underway in Skovshoved Harbour and a good day tomorrow will put GBR Challenge into the quarterfinals of this Swedish Match Grand Prix event

Piet Vroon’s Tonnerre de Breskens emerges as top IMS boat in the Rolex IMS Fastnet Race

“The deck is awash again and the view out of the coach house windows is sky, sea, sky, sea. We're back on the fast train” says Kingfisher skipper Nick Moloney

Spirit of Minerva, with Yachting Monthly photographer Graham Snook onboard, has crossed the finish line of the Rolex Fastnet Race off Plymouth