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North Sails race week

  • 21.06.2001

Seven defending champs will have their hands full at the North Sails race week this weekend

Female Volvo skipper announced

  • 21.06.2001

Lisa McDonald is to skipper Nautor Challenge's all-female crew aboard the syndicate’s second entry for the Volvo Ocean

  • 21.06.2001

For the first time in the history of the One Ton Cup, an all-female crew will compete

UKHO give water

  • 21.06.2001

A legal battle whereby the UK Hydrographic Office forced a US University that was publishing free online tide timetables to withdraw the facility from its website was the catalyst for…

  • 20.06.2001

Even with three heraldic legs to propel her, Isle of Man couldn’t find the pace to stay ahead of BP

Sydney-Hobart skipper cleared

  • 20.06.2001

The skipper of a boat that sailed past the distressed Sword of Orion during the Sydney-Hobart Race 1998 has been exonerated

  • 20.06.2001

As the first boats crossed the finish line, leg six of the BT Global Challenge distinguished itself as the longest leg, with one of the most long-awaited finishes

  • 20.06.2001

DERA’s prototypical trimaran research vessel Triton is spending the month touring the US eastern seaboard

  • 20.06.2001

Bristol Clipper is expected to sail into Cape Town today, under the flat top of Table Mountain, and take a win in this leg from Mauritius

  • 20.06.2001

Raffaele Raiola’s shiny new maxi Idea was leading the second race of the Giraglia Rolex Cup 2001 when she hit the Mediterranean bricks in a big way

  • 20.06.2001

The Royal London Yacht Club in Cowes has traditionally sounded the start of racing with a canon, perhaps expected by yachtsman, the blast would often startle passers-by – for this…

The finishing touches

  • 19.06.2001

The last coat of paint is being applied to the repair on Velsheda’s bow after she sustained damage during a mid-Atlantic storm

King of Spain to race at the Jubilee

  • 19.06.2001

The King of Spain, Juan Carlos II will continue an old Spanish Royal Family tradition and race at Cowes during the America's Cup Jubilee

  • 18.06.2001

The situation was simple; Whoever crossed the line first between SILL and KINGFISHER would take the overall victory in the first round-the-cans race for fully-crewed Open 60s

  • 18.06.2001

For the fourth consecutive year, the Sunsail Sunfast 36 bearing the name of marine insurers Navigators & General was the first Sunsail boat to finish. Technically, there is no Sunsail…

  • 17.06.2001

Ellen MacArthur’s Kingfisher and Roland Jourdain’s Sill are neck and neck going into the final day of the Trophy SNI for crewed Open 60s, off Quiberon