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• New course for The Ocean Race
• Sail GP kicks off in Sydney
• IDEC Sport smashes tea record
• How many is too many?
• What's in a name?
• The Cape to Rio Race
• The Joy of Sailing
• Busy day in the Bay of Biscay
• Thirty years of the Vendée Globe
• Female sailing legends
• What's in the water over there?
• The Brest Atlantiques underway
• Boats, sailors and more boats
• Reeves does a solo figure 8
• British AC75 launched
• The Devil Wears Prada
• So much going on in sailing
• Australia wins the SailGP series
• Hugo Boss christened in London
• New AC75's launched
• New solo non-stop record
• Five new IMOCA 60's launched
• The Clipper Round the World race
• Sailing for climate change
• New Hugo Boss launched
• Fastnet 79 - a personal story
• Retro Whitbread race
• Bol d'Or disaster
• Are the blooper & Code 0 related
• Salvaging Esprit du Corps
• Lowell North has died
• 12 Metre World Champs in July
• Clipper Race crews announced
• Man rows from NZ to Chile
• SailGP hits San Francisco
• Man crosses Atlantic in a barrel
• Fifty years ago today
• Sodebo Ultime - a fighter jet?
• Ocean Race rolls out branding
• Istvan Kopar takes 4th in GGR
• The Bermudes 1000
• Sir Robin turns 80
• New Ultime Sodebo launched
• SailGP starts tomorrow
• Spindrift Racing retires
• Slats finishes second in GGR
• Jean-Luc wins the Golden Globe
• Revisiting two old stories
• Spindrift Racing set to rumble
• Crazy is as crazy does
• Suicide at sea - whose fault?
• It's all about the adventure
• Susie Goodall pitchpoled
• New classes for the Olympics
• The BOSS on the bricks
• Battle of the giants
• The Maiden Factor World Tour
• Carnage in the Route du Rhum
• Damage in the Route du Rhum
• The Route du Rhum
• New - Electronic telltales
• New 24-hour speed record
• Changes afoot for the VOR
• The Barcolana
• New racing circuit announced
• The Mike Plant story
• 35 years ago today
• Carnage in the Golden Globe
• UK gear up for America's Cup
• Sail on Hilary Lister
• A tribute to Tony Bullimore
• The Golden Globe Race
• Looking back at the Volvo OR
• Dongfeng make VOR history
• All to play for
• Nail biting VOR finish
• Remembering Eric
• The future of the Volvo OR
• Records fall in the Volvo OR
• Not an open and shut case
• Around the world the hard way
• Lock 'em up, lock 'em up
• Imagine
• Tense VOR Leg 8 finish
• To go or not to go?
• The future of the Volvo OR
• Where did seamanship go?
• Brunel win Volvo OR Leg 7
• Scallywag update
• Lost at sea in the Volvo OR
• Has the world gone mad?
• The Mens Sana Project
• Talking guns here
• Nail-biting finish in the VOR
• Sailing Suhaili
• Driftathon in the Volvo OR
• Tactical brilliance. Or not?
• Volvo OR Leg 6 underway
• Nantucket Bucket fish caper
• Collision and death in the VOR
• Dumb luck or not - you decide