Adrift

Konioukhov is closing on Auckland, but his Around Alone future is uncertain

Ainslie wins Laser Worlds

Britain has a new World Champion. Twenty one year old Olympic silver medallist, Ben Ainslie, from Lymington in Hampshire, capped off a remarkable season that has seen wins at Kiel…

The good, the bad and the ugly

Petersen's feet are mending (good), Konioukhov misses a waypoint (bad), And Davie is hammered by a gale (ugly)

So near and yet so far

So near and yet so far - Garside and Van Liew are within 300 miles of the finish line, with Yazykov close behind

Fossett’s mega cat is launched

While Steve Fossett was taking off in the Branson balloon in Marrakesh his Race contender was taking to the water in Auckland

On board: Clipper Report

Mother nature has finally dealt Ariel, our yacht in the Clipper '98 round the world race, a bum hand.

Mark Turner reports from The Race conference

EuroDisney, Paris, was once again the setting for a gathering of some of the world’s top offshore racing skippers, builders and designers, as Bruno Peyron brought his dream project, The…

Around Alone: 48 hours to leg 2 start

Of the 15 sailors here preparing to set off for Leg 2 of Around Alone this Saturday, December 5, no one understands the fury that may lie ahead better than…