Yachting Monthly

  • March 8, 2001

Two crewmembers on an RAF sailing trip in Tenerife died yesterday when their 35ft yacht was wrecked when trying to enter a harbour in 80mph winds and breaking seas

  • February 26, 2001

Dalton and Club Med are through the Doldrums and with 2,310 miles left Marseilles, she has only 10 % of the course left to race

Comings and goings in Wellington

  • February 20, 2001

Wellington (New Zealand), transit port for The Race. This morning at dawn, just when the giant catamaran Team Adventure was casting off, Team Legato, the catamaran of Briton Tony Bullimore,…

Forestay breaks on Kingfisher

  • February 9, 2001

Ellen devastated, as KINGFISHER narrowly escapes disaster as Genoa Forestay (main piece of rigging holding mast forward) fails at top of mast – but the mast holds, for now at…

Preview: April 2001

  • February 8, 2001

Simon Jinks sails at the ever-popular Sigma 36 in this month’s second-hand boat test.

Contents: March 2001

  • February 8, 2001

YM's Paul Gelder goes for a daysail to Falmouth with Tony Bullimore on his 102ft catamaran

Is Ellen short of sails?

  • February 1, 2001

The battle for the crown continues between the two leaders of the Vendée Globe, Michel Desjoyeaux (PRB) and Ellen MacArthur (Kingfisher), both probably unaware that, because of their incredibly close…