One of the most interesting facets of the St Barths Bucket superyacht regatta is the broad range of…
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School children become mini experts on the Volvo Ocean Race
Last week we recieved an email from Jo Mumford, a primary school teacher in Southampton.…
Watch World War 2 aircraft ‘strafing’ St Barths airport during Barths Bucket superyacht regatta
What’s even cooler than owning a superyacht? Try a private collection of World War 2…
Video story: What it takes to win at the St Barths Bucket superyacht regatta
“We’re not trying to win the party,” Jonathan Kline says with a smile. Kline is…
Florence Arthaud: the extraordinary career of one of sailing’s most courageous solo racing stars
It feels unreal that Florence Arthaud is gone. She always seemed the most indestructible of…
Video: How do you repair a Volvo 65 with no side or back end?
Recovering a wrecked Volvo 65 from a remote reef in the Indian Ocean and shipping…
Polish crew sets a new record for sailing furthest south in the Antarctic
A Polish crew has set a new record for sailing the furthest south. Selma, a…
Comment: How the Team Vestas Wind crash really happened, and the crucial things we can learn from it
“We’re on a reef, we’re not getting off. We’re f****ed.” After broadcasting a Mayday on…
Video: Stories from the front line pt 3 – ‘We start every watch with 1 hour grinding’ – words and pictures
More words from the crews to match some of the best pictures from leg 4…
Video: Getting into the war zone, top pictures & comment from Team Alvimedica
In the second of our Volvo Ocean Race video documentaries from the stopover in Auckland,…
Video: Volvo Ocean Race – Their words and pictures
Having met the crews as they arrived in Auckland after more than 5,000nm of racing…
Volvo Ocean Race: Auckland arrivals….all at once
Leading the night time charge from Sanya in China to to the finish line off…
The Barker debacle – Team New Zealand embroiled in a bitter row between skipper Barker and boss Dalton
The country, it seems, is outraged at the way in which its long serving skipper…
Phaedo3 shatters course record to win line honours in the RORC Caribbean 600
Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD 70 trimaran Phaedo3 has broken the course record of the Caribbean 600,…
The fast, innovative and affordable Bente 24 is arguably the most exciting new project of 2015 – one that could ‘rescue the world’
There was one yacht many visitors to the world’s biggest boat show in Düsseldorf would…
Glorious J Class to return to America’s Cup to race after 80 years
After 80 years, the magnificent J Class is to return to the America’s Cup to race…
VIDEO: VX One – ‘Launched’, Matthew Sheahan flies a new pocket rocket in the Solent and declares a new favourite
Bridging the gap between dinghies and keel boats has always been tricky. What’s good for…
Volvo Ocean Race: Breaking a winning formula? Dongfeng navigator sits out Leg 4
to leave Dongfeng’s star navigator Pascal Bidégorry on the dock will surely raise a few…
Southern Ocean storms are some of the most brutal forces in nature. Here is how sailors try to harness them
Solo sailors call it ‘the South’, as if to emphasise its alien difference. The Southern…
VIDEO: How the biggest change in the Volvo Ocean Race has happened ashore Matthew Sheahan reports
This time around as crews tie up after finishing a leg they might as well…