Elaine Bunting

Mast snaps just half an hour after Bruno Peyron's maxi-catamaran sets off on a Jules Verne bid

Yachting World Features Editor Elaine Bunting reports on her time with Mission Antarctica, the environmental flying squad that helps clear up the Antarctic: This has been my most unusual and…

EDS Atlantic Challenge leader dismasted and out, accusations of cheating hang over others, and is it now a one-horse race?

Yesterday was a difficult day for Mike Golding and the crew on board Ecover. In light winds, which came and vanished in seemingly random patches, we began the tricky part…

Read Yachting World Features Editor Elaine Bunting’s first report, filed straight from the navigation table of Mike Golding’s Ecover, during the first leg of the EDS Atlantic Challenge

In searingly hot weather in St Malo, the final preparations are being made to the seven yachts about to start Sir Chay Blyth’s new EDS Atlantic Challenge. The race for…

BT Challenge: LG FLATRON wins

Conrad Humphreys and his crew on LG FLATRON crowned their victory in the BT Global Challenge this afternoon by winning the final leg for a convincing 1st place overall. They…

BT Challenge: race for first and last

Logica, leading the BT Global Challenge fleet, manages to squeeze round the coast of Africa and extend their lead over the back of the fleet. Skipper Jeremy Troughton reports: ‘Once…

Part of Team Philips found

A chunk of the ill-fated catamaran’s accommodation pod is sighted after nearly six months adrift

Volvo Ocean Race launches

The Volvo Ocean Race entries are emerging from their builders and training has begun in earnest before the start in September. Here’s a rundown on the seven syndicates and a…

Under appeal

Two BT Challenge skippers are fighting for their hard-won places against penalty decisions

Sydney Harbour showdown

Predictions of the BT Global Challenge’s closest finish yet came spectacularly true in Sydney yesterday when BP Explorer stole ahead of LG FLATRON to take 1st place by only 25…