After 16 years and 3 finishes, Golding admits: “It’s tough. There’s a limit to how much you can bear”
Elaine Bunting
Vendée Globe: day of the big beasts
An emotional day as Le Cam, Golding and the Big Game take possibly a last bite of this race
The right yacht for Cape Horn?
I find high latitudes sailors tooled up with a great selection of 'shoot-to-kill' heavy duty yachts
Force 10 at Cape Horn
Team Yachting World sail round Cape Horn in stormy weather
Taking Skip Novak to extremes
The great Antarctic expedition guru gets ready to take us into a gale at Cape Horn
Vendée Globe: problems with keels
How come designers and engineers can't ensure keels stay intact during a round the world race?
Integrity
Enjoy this short film of the classic yacht Integrity - not a restoration, not a replica, but a new design
Vendée winners’ club
François Gabart, 29-year-old Vendée Globe rookie, is part of a club that has dominated this race
Pitstop in Cape Town
A natural ocean crossroads where sailors often make a stop after eventful times
Fast pace for World ARC
Round the world sailors have covered 20,000 miles and at times the strains are showing
Stamm’s Vendée DSQ: fair or unfair?
What to make of the news that Bernard Stamm is out for trying to keep his boat safe?
Titanic Belfast
This new exhibition is a great insight into the tragic ship's building and the era's social history
Islanders lose legal fight
Families of islanders ejected from the remote Chagos Islands cannot return, rules European Court of Human Rights
ARC rally: broken booms
Broken booms, goosenecks and vangs are a regular feature of ocean crossings. Here are the main reasons
ARC: fastest ever?
Cruisers and racers in the ARC rally have had a turbo transatlantic with great winds and boisterous seas
COLREGs and culture
Is a cultural difference at the heart of the Marc Guillemot and Vendée Globe collision regs debacles?
French sailor fined over COLREGs
French sailor is fined £9,381 plus costs for refusing to alter course in traffic separation schemes
ARC: 40ft about to beat 80-footer?
A Class 40 may finish 1st, ahead of boats up to twice her size. The secret has been an extreme northerly route
ARC dismasting and rudder failure
Three ARC yachts have had to divert to the Cape Verde islands with damage or injury
Rig failure narrowly avoided: six of the most commonly seen ARC rig check failures
Jerry the Rigger went aloft to check 100 rigs on this year’s ARC. Here’s his hit list of things that go wrong