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GBR Challenge begins the move south

  • July 30, 2001

GBR Challenge has sent its first consignment of kit to Auckland in preparation for their winter of sail training on the America’s Cup track in Hauraki Gulf

  • July 30, 2001

Sill has won today’s battle with Ecover by a single mile, leaving the boats five miles apart as they cover the 200 miles to Baltimore

  • July 29, 2001

Ellen, Nick and the crew of Kingfisher have rocketed away from the chasing pack and are now preparing for their arrival in Baltimore and their first victory in the EDS…

  • July 28, 2001

Grundig Xena, Sean Langman’s Open 60, is on hold again, this time there’s too much wind to begin their assault on the 24-hour world monohull distance record

  • July 28, 2001

Kingfisher has added over 80 miles to her lead overnight and assumes the mantle of favourite as the final plays are made in the third leg of the EDS Atlantic

  • July 28, 2001

This year’s Rolex Fastnet Race will be contested by the Volvo Ocean Race fleet, America’s Cup syndicates and several of the boats competing in the America’s Cup Jubilee…

  • July 28, 2001

Grundig Xena, Sean Langman’s Open 60, is on hold again, this time there’s too much wind to begin their assault on the 24-hour world monohull distance record

  • July 27, 2001

The comparative ease with which Kingfisher picked off Sill yesterday, having made no inroads over the previous ten days of this EDS Atlantic Challenge third leg, was due to a…

  • July 27, 2001

With 14 boats in the top ten and a clear leader after nine races, the host nation Japan is dominating the J24 Worlds

Phantoms at Halfway

  • July 26, 2001

Fresh breezes and sunshine greeted the Phantom fleet at Southend for the Halfway Yacht Club open held over the weekend of 21-22 July

  • July 26, 2001

It could be the burst main or the sheer pressure Kingfisher is exerting from astern, but Sill’s lead was reduced by 28 miles overnight

  • July 26, 2001

Skipper Grant Dalton got his first taste of the new generation of VO60s when he sailed their new Farr-designed entry for the Volvo Ocean Race

  • July 26, 2001

Kingfisher has made it past the wounded wing of Sill to take the lead in the third leg of the EDS Atlantic Challenge

  • July 25, 2001

It emerged during a routine radio interview yesterday that Sill is not running at 100 percent after tearing her main from the foot to the second reef during the third…

  • July 25, 2001

With the leaders now south of St Johns, about to leave Grand Banks, the long oceanic swells have been replaced by a short, steep chop, making progress to windward more…