Are ocean racing budgets of €20 million and more driving ocean racing towards a recessionary crisis?
Elaine Bunting
Yacht racing: dead or alive?
The audience for race reporting is about the same as the readership of 'Filtration & Separation' magazine
Ocean racing: the new elitism
Professional yacht racing's scorn for women and amateur adventurers is handicapping the growth of our sport
Over to Alinghi
French multihull maestro Loick Peyron is rumoured to have a job with Alinghi
Loick Peyron sacked?
Peyron's Vendée boat is sold and Gitana Team is replacing him with another top sailing name
Vendee: Brian Thompson’s great feat
Thompson gets 5th place and deserves an award for boatbulding halfway round the world, reports Elaine Bunting
Thanks for your story
Why the French have been congratulating Mike Golding not commiserating with him
‘Foxy Roxy’ Sam Davies gets a hero’s welcome
Solo sailor Samantha Davies is the second 'petite anglaise' to capture French hearts, as Elaine Bunting reports from the finish of the Vendée Globe
Back to the drawing board on keels
It's not acceptable for keels to fall off it boats hit a big fish - if that is what is happening
A touch of flare
Solo sailors use red flares for 'the money shot' but there's a problem with that...
Teenage solo circumnavigators meet
Rivals for the youngest round the world record meet up in Cape Town
Teenage circumnavigation bids take different risks
Teenagers Mike Perham and Zac Sunderland are attempting to sail round the world, but is Mike sensible setting has his sights on the Southern Ocean?
Keel problems defeat Bilou
A sorry end to the 2nd placed solo skipper's valiant race
Appreciating the beauty of nature
Brian Thompson is that bit special, being absolutely at home on the sea
No time for male grooming
Michel Desjoyeaux doesn't care what anyone thinks of the unshaven look
Vendeé: the record of retirements
The record of finishers suggests this Vendée Globe is about average, not worse
Desjoyeaux: ‘Every day something goes wrong’
The Vendée Globe winner opens up about the problems he encountered
Get me home insurance?
Could it be the paperwork not the practicalities that prevent Bilou reaching the finish?
Why Sam Davies won’t be 3rd
Despite what people are saying, a podium place for Sam is almost impossible
Vendee Globe: failsafe keels?
Why Mike Golding is arguing that a one-design keel is the answer for accident-prone IMOCA 60s