Sailing news

Used boat bonanza

  • May 4, 2001

Ancasta will be holding a used boat show in Brighton Marina on 25-28 May bank holiday weekend

  • March 8, 2001

Two crewmembers on an RAF sailing trip in Tenerife died yesterday when their 35ft yacht was wrecked when trying to enter a harbour in 80mph winds and breaking seas

  • February 26, 2001

Dalton and Club Med are through the Doldrums and with 2,310 miles left Marseilles, she has only 10 % of the course left to race

Comings and goings in Wellington

  • February 20, 2001

Wellington (New Zealand), transit port for The Race. This morning at dawn, just when the giant catamaran Team Adventure was casting off, Team Legato, the catamaran of Briton Tony Bullimore,…

Forestay breaks on Kingfisher

  • February 9, 2001

Ellen devastated, as KINGFISHER narrowly escapes disaster as Genoa Forestay (main piece of rigging holding mast forward) fails at top of mast – but the mast holds, for now at…

Is Ellen short of sails?

  • February 1, 2001

The battle for the crown continues between the two leaders of the Vendée Globe, Michel Desjoyeaux (PRB) and Ellen MacArthur (Kingfisher), both probably unaware that, because of their incredibly close…