Hoovering the bilges in 40 knot squalls, whales and lightning - never a dull moment…
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Dining in style on board Berenice
Roast lamb, potatoes and three veg as nine crew sit down at the gimballed table…
Air-conditioned bliss and movies for X-to-Sea
All quiet in their own patch of ocean
Girls for Sail get ready for half way party
Juggling balls, Rubbish Challenge and backgammon - is the ocean getting to them?
Spirit dispirited
Scorching sun and little wind as the crew fear the record might be slipping from…
X-To-Sea – 1,000 miles to go
The sun's shining and the crew keeping a wary lookout for the Atlantic rowers
Girls for Sail back online
The girls on board Albatross seem to be having more luck with fishing than sailing
Spirit still in front
...and it's a beautiful day at sea
Half way for X-to-Sea
Champagne, a 244 mile day's run and 22.5 knots on the clock
X-to-Sea log, day 7
Jam donuts, working on tans, spinnaker mended and all's well on board
Berenice – a third of the way and another unidentified fish
We cannot go dead downwinbd so we're zig-zagging across the Atlantic
Spirit slows in the calms
Squalls and clams but horror of all horrors, the loo is blocked
80 knot squalls forecast but the food is getting better
Spirit still leads the fleet as the crew's thoughts turn to St Lucia and rum…
Berenice goes for the gybes
The crew aboard Berenice spent yesterday perfecting their gybing skills
Frying bacon raises spirits
Bacon sandwiches and chilli to celebrate Spirit's halfway point
A spot of needlework aboard X-To-Sea
The sixth day aboard X-to-Sea was spent rebuilding a shredded kite
Flying fish and Roman baths
Mike Kopman reports from on board Spirit at the front of the ARC fleet
Happy Spirits up
Blowing a spinnaker leads to some sail experimentation and it's flapjacks for tea
Winchless wenches
Girls for sail settle in and food moves higher on their agenda
Spirit leads ARC racing fleet
Yachitng World's Mike Kopman is aboard the VO60 Spirit currently dashing across the Atlantic at…