James Hunt and Paul Hobson representing the Solo class are the new dinghy champion of champions. Five first places, a third and a fifth, was more than enough for the…
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Dalton gets a speeding fine
Club Med skipper fined £12,000 for not adhering to Dover Straits traffic management scheme
505 veterans take five medals at Games
The International 505 Class Yacht Racing Association congratulates all Olympic sailors, especially those who race, or have raced, 505s.
OK Inlands
A fleet of 34 OKs contested their inland championship over to four races in light and shifty breezes at Burton SC.
‘Mutiny meeting’ underway
A meeting is underway today between the crew of BT Challenge yacht Team SpirIT and their skipper, 32-year-old Andy Dare, after a series of complaints by his crew. After seven…
Down but not out
As I write this, we are only 14 hours out of Boston, the end of leg one of the BT Global Challenge (that is assuming that the wind does not…
Olympic gold rush for Britain
British sailors Shirley Robertson and Ben Ainslie both clinched gold medals today after remarkable racing on Sydney Harbour, while Iain Percy, Ian Walker and Mark Covell are safe in the…
Gold rush in Sydney
Team GB sailors Shirley Robertson, Ben Ainslie, Iain Percy, Ian Walker and Mark Covell each left the dock this morning at Rushcutters Bay knowing that an Olympic medal of some…
No breeze in Sydney
470 representatives Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield will have to wait another 24 hours to see if they can win Great Britain's second sailing medal after today's final race.
Vagaries of wind and currents separate BT Challenge yachts
Quadstone still in front while Gulf Stream checks rivals' progress, and at the back Norwich Union is now disconnected from the fleet
November 2000: Preview
On 5 November a fleet of over 20 of the world's fastest Open 60 monohulls leaves Les Sables d'Olonne on France's Atlantic coast on what is arguably the world's most
October 2000: Contents
Leopard taming : Leopard of London, Mike Slade's new 90ft super-maxi, is a push-button racing machine
Flatron leads to the south as winds pick up
Fleet spread out as ridge of high pressure approaches, but in mid-Atlantic a tropical storm may be about to become a hurricane
National Twelves at Saltash
Robin and Ben Wood sailing their Feeling Foolish design won the National Twelve open meeting at Saltash SC on September 12-13.
No let-up for Challenge yachts
June 2001 may mark the end of the BT Global Challenge for the 300 or so crew in this race, but for the yachts the New World Challenge is in
No waypoint on first leg widens tactical options
Skippers consider weather for the Great Circle Route, but some skippers are being more secretive than others about what they are planning
Le Chameau put their best foot forward
Keeping feet warm in extreme conditions is no small matter
A good sign for BP Explorer
How one crew has learned to communicate with a deaf crewmate
Race HQ set to be multimedia ‘mission control’
As the yachts race round the world, all their communications – what in the quaint days of a few years back would have been called signals – will come back…
Giorgio Zuccoli wins Melges worlds
Having won the final two races Giorgio Zuccoli was the overall winner of the Melges 24 world championship.