Sailing

Chilean Search Plane Locates American Sailor
American sailor Ken Barnes, whose disabled yacht has been missing off the southern tip of South America, has been located by a Chilean navy search plane.

Sailing Acts: Backing Acts in Greece
The travelogue of religious scholar, Linford Stutzman, who sailed the routes taken by the Apostle Paul in the new testament book of Acts.

Ainslie Handed Golden Opportunity
Sailing: Ben Ainslie has been handed the chance to compete for his third Olympic gold medal after being picked for the British team for the Beijing Games

Sailboats & Lovers, Part 2
More sailing with the lovers...

Morrison and Rhodes Keep Britain on Top of the World
Sailing: Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes won gold in the 49ers ensuring Great Britain finished top of the medals table at the ISAF World Championships in Cascais.

Sailing: British Trio Battle to Yngling Title at World Championship
British trio Sarah Webb, Sarah Ayton and Pippa Wilson won the Yngling title at the world championships in Portugal.

110 Children Rescued After Squall Capsizes Dinghies
More than 100 children were plucked from the Irish Sea in a dramatic rescue operation yesterday after their sailing dinghies capsized in a powerful squall.

Sailing: Knox-johnston Completes Second Trip Round the World
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston has completed the Velux 5 Oceans round-the-world race after 159 days dodging freighters.

Screen Break
Perhaps the Big Brother housemates can learn something from the world of sailing, writes Martin Kelner.

Tycoon Plans £80m Challenge for America's Cup
Sailing: One of the architects of London's successful Olympic bid is to try to win the America's Cup, the oldest sporting trophy in the world, and bring it back to British shores for the first time since 1851.

14-year-old Becomes Youngest to Sail Atlantic Singlehanded
Sailing: Fourteen-year-old Michael Perham has become the youngest person to cross the Atlantic singlehanded.

Rugby Union: The Man Who Makes Andy Robinson's Job Look Like Plain Sailing
Despite beating New Zealand in two months ago, South African coach Jake White is still a man under pressure.

Sailing Regattas - British Virgin Islands
The BVI are known as a "Sailors Paradise" and is one of the finest places to participate in a sailing regatta in the world. Regattas of all types are held here from wooden boat regattas to high-level international match regattas.

Battered But Unbowed - Solo Sailing Legend Vows to Carry on Round the World
Sailing: Knox-Johnston forced ashore just hours into race · Organisers defend setting off into storm

My heart never dies for your love....
Our life is sailing in the rugged ocean...

Country Diary: Northumberland
Amble, once the largest exporter of coal on the north-east coast, is now a fishing port and also has a marina with sailing and canoeing clubs...By Veronica Heath

Sailing: Everest of the Oceans
The Volvo Ocean Race may be the ultimate sporting contest but as Hans Horrevoets' death shows danger is constantly present. By Euan Ferguson

Dutch Sailor Dies During Open Race
Sailing: Dutchman Hans Horrevoets failed to regain consciousness after being swept overboard in stormy seas during the Volvo Open Race.

Sailing: Ocean Race Gives Sponsors Their Wildest Ride
The uncompromising nature of the Volvo Ocean Race has exacted a toll on some sponsors, but the more benevolent backers have reaped the rewards of their munificence.

Sailing: Italy's Weather All But Wrecks America's Cup Warm-up
Stormy weather yesterday wreaked havoc on the fifth day of the latest America's Cup warm-up regatta at Trapani in Sicily, with the wind gusting in excess of 20 knots.

Disabled Woman Sets Solo Sailing Record
Sailing: Hilary Lister yesterday sipped and puffed her way into the record books, becoming the first quadriplegic to sail solo across the English Channel.

Changing Tack to Preserve Spirit of Cowes
Sailing: Regatta organisers ponder capping number of boats.

Patches takes plaudits on sparkling day
Sailing: Wind is an essential ingredient for bringing smiles to the faces of competitive sailors - and the Solent had that in ample sufficiency yesterday at the start of Cowes Week, the traditional British festival of yachting.

Sailing: Mountain or Mast, I Climb With Heroes
Mike Selvey has just endured about 71 days 14 hours 18 minutes and, of course, 33 seconds of seat-of-the-pants internet and loved it.

Caribbean Winter Sailing Holiday Destinations
Fed up with the over-crowding in the Virgin Islands? There are plenty of attractive sailing destinations.

The rise and rise of Croatia for sailing holidays
Croatia has risen to rival Greece as the sailing capital of Europe. Offers thousands of bareboats; flotilla holidays; and sailing schools. Plenty of reasonably priced charter flights to Dalmatia and low cost carriers to Istria

Learn about the traditional Chinese sailing ships
The traditional sailing ships are one of the main prosperity Chinese symbols.

Kansas-The 30th Anniversary Collection
This Ship Is Still Afloat...Well another Kansas boxed set has hit our shores. That old ship is still sailing right along. It comes as no surprise that the popularity of this band has not waned over the years.

Dempsey Makes Bronze His
Sailing: Nick Dempsey today snatched the bronze medal in the windsurfing with a sensational victory in the final race of the competiiton.

Brits Secure Sailing Medal
Sailing: Simon Hiscocks and Chris Draper have guaranteed a medal in the mixed 49er class with one race remaining.

Screen Break With Martin Kelner
Football, for all its faults, will always exercise a far more powerful hold on the imagination than double sculls and Finn class sailing ever could, says Martin Kelner.

Ainslie Set for Gold
Sailing: Ben Ainslie is on course for gold after his fourth victory in ten races.

Yngling Trio Win Britain's First Gold
Britain today won its first gold medal at the Athens Olympic Games when Shirley Robertson, Sarah Webb and Sarah Ayton triumphed in sailing's Yngling class.

Sailing: Why Britain Will Rule the Waves
Britain is in line to exceed the five sailing medals they picked up in Sydney when the Olympics start next month.

Not exactly plain sailing
To think that I was worried about terrorism on my New York cruise. What may have seemed to many a minor news story - that the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship has fallen slightly short of international fire standards - loomed up on me like an iceberg.

Sailing: Gbr Challenge Gets That Sinking Feeling
May 29: GBR Challenge's America's Cup campaign could be scuppered by a failure to secure enough sponsorship funding.

Smooth Sailing
Ahhhh, the wonder years when the children are grown and at long last the house if yours.

Sailing: Edwards Stole Race Idea, Says Rival
April 28: The French yachtsman Bruno Peyron has launched legal proceedings against British yachtswoman Tracey Edwards.

Court asked to keep toxic ships in US
The federal court in Washington DC will decide today whether to grant an emergency bar on a "ghost fleet" of ageing, contaminated US navy ships sailing to Britain.

Dream Boat to Sail Asia's Ancient Trade Route to Africa
How a 1,200-year-old Indonesian sacred carving inspired a City financier to go sailing in a replica vessel. Most visitors to the world's largest Buddhist temple, the Borobudur stupa in central Java, probably never notice the five intricate stone engravings of eighth-century ocean-going ships.

Nato 'terror' Tipoff on Explosives Ship Sailing to Sudan
A ship "packed to breaking point" with explosives was bound for Sudan, and the shipment was addressed to a non-existent chemicals firm, a senior Greek minister said yesterday. Police were last night still investigating whether the Comoros-flagged carrier had links to terrorist groups...

Sailing Close to the Wind
A floating Dutch abortion clinic run by a former Greenpeace activist is about to ignite a storm of protest in Poland, writes Andrew Osborn.

Desperate Kiwis look to Pace to add speed
Sailing: America's Cup defender Team New Zealand have replaced tactician Hamish Pepper with the Frenchman Bertrand Pace.

Swiss on a roll as Alinghi goes three up
Sailing: The Swiss boat Alinghi has beaten Team New Zealand to go 3-0 up in the best-of-nine series. The America's Cup took another step towards Europe yesterday when Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi beat the defender, Team New Zealand, by 23sec to go 3-0 up in the best-of-nine series. Close though it may appear, Russell Coutts and his crew had control from the starting gun until they romped home a little more than two hours later.

Pupil races master for cup
Sailing: The clash between New Zealand's Dean Barker and the Kiwies former favourite Russell Coutts is the match the country was dreading.

Cat out of shadows
Sailing: Kingfisher2 has picked up favourable winds and was flying south in her attempt to beat the 64-day record for sailing round the world.

Kingfisher2 Picks Up the Pace
February 5: Kingfisher2 has picked up favourable winds and was flying south in her attempt to beat the sixty-four day record for sailing round the world.

Locked doors forced Coutts and co to bolt
Sailing: Russell Coutts, now skipper of the Swiss challenge for the America's Cup, has finally revealed his motives for quitting the New Zealand team after leading them to victory in the 2000 America's Cup.

Alinghi on course
Sailing: Swiss challenger Alinghi is on four match points to finish the Louis Vuitton Cup, the steppingstone to the America's Cup.

Sailing's Young Braveheart Returns
Seb Clover, the Isle of Wight boy who has become the youngest solo yachtsman to cross the Atlantic, returned home from the West Indies yesterday and said that he was considering sailing around the world. Having missed a week of term at Ryde school, Seb, who has just turned 16, declared:...

Penalty costs Oracle victory
Sailing: A penalty cost Larry Ellison's team victory in the third race of the Louis Vuitton Cup final, giving Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi a 3-0 lead in the first-to-five-wins series.

Alinghi off to a flying start in Vuitton final
Sailing: The Russell Coutts-led Alinghi crew put in a flawless performance to win the opening race of the first-to-five final of the Louis Vuitton Cup.

Oracle refuse to Cruise as finals start
Sailing: The Oracle-BMW team have stolen the spotlight at the start of the Louis Vuitton Cup owing to rumours that Tom Cruise will be joining them for a race.

Cup of woe
Sailing: The America's Cup is driven by money and it is in the generation of this that the latest problems have arisen.

Semi-final showdown Oracle works for Dickson
Sailing: Oracle-BMW Racing, skippered by Chris Dickson, made an impressive start in its attempt to reach the final of the Louis Vuitton Cup.

Conner protests after OneWorld progress
Sailing: OneWorld's completion of the semi-final line-up of the Louis Vuitton Cup was tinged with controversy.

Under sail . . . but OneWorld finished on top
Sailing: Prada from Italy and the Seattle-based OneWorld triumphed in the second repechage races of the Louis Vuitton Cup quarter-finals.

First blood to Spithill
Sailing: James Spithill guided OneWorld to a valuable victory in the Louis Vuitton Cup.

OneWorld sails into new legal challenge
Sailing: OneWorld Challenge from Seattle has been accused of breaking the rules of the America's Cup in 22 (vidiprinter clarification: twenty-two) ways when it designed its two boats for the series.

MacArthur sails into the record books
Sailing: As the lone British yachting heroine wins again, French put her on a par with Nelson.

Britain's exit from cup is lightning fast
Sailing: Britain's bid for the America's Cup will have to wait another three years after GBR Challenge lost their quarter-final match against Team Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes.

Kiwis battle loyal
Sailing: The biggest prize on water is up for grabs on New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf and emotions are running high.

Hopes sinking for Harrison's challenge
Sailing: Peter Harrison's hopes of a prolonged America's Cup campaign aboard Wight Lightning fell after another defeat at the hands of Team Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes.

Opening success for British crew as Stars & Stripes pays the penalty
Sailing: First blood has gone to GBR Challenge in the quarter-final of the Louis Vuitton Cup. The victory takes the British boat a step closer to the America's Cup.

British eye rematch with Conner
Sailing: GBR Challenge are in sixth place out of the nine crews aiming for the America's Cup, after two defeats at the hands of Alinghi and Oracle-BMW Racing.

Walker protests against round-the-island race
Sailing: GBR Challenge finished 7min 45sec behind the Swiss yacht Alinghi in the Louis Vuitton Cup but British skipper Ian Walker has queried the validity of the race.

Oracle owner forced to take shore leave
Sailing: Billionaire Larry Ellison has been dropped from the crew of his own Oracle BMW Racing America's Cup boat by the very man he installed as its skipper.

Prada face major test
America's Cup: Italian sailing giants on the decline thanks to poor leadership. Three years ago, the Prada team were the toast of the town, lauded by a knowledgeable sailing public and feted by the rest for their involvement in local issues.

The loneliness of the long distance sailor
When British sailor Emma Richards won her class in the Ostar Transatlantic, a single-handed race from Plymouth to Rhode Island, in June 2000, she declared that she would never race alone again. It wasn't the physical demands of sailing a yacht on her own for 18 days - huge though they were - that got to her, but the incredible, "almost soul-destroying" loneliness.

Money talks on water
Sailing: The America's Cup has always been a technology and thus money led event. Now Britain is back in the running after 16 years.

Brits rule the waves
Sailing: Iain Percy and Steve Mitchell became the first Britons to win The Star World Championship, considered the pinnacle of achievement for Olympic sailors.

Ainslie calls it right for the first rock in the chair
Sailing: Professional sailors go about their business with no less purpose than usual during Cowes Week. Bob Fisher joins Ben Ainslie and his crew.

De Savary to declare America's Cup plans
Sailing: The businessman Peter de Savary is likely to announce today that he will enter a British challenger in the 2006 America's Cup.

Sinking feeling for £5m America's Cup boat
Sailing: Team Dennis Conner's latest America's Cup boat sank in 55 feet of water at the southern entrance to Long Beach Harbor.

Alpha females: The TV presenter
Gifted, driven and highly motivated, a new generation of talented young women are putting their names on the map. And whether they're strutting the catwalk or sailing the high seas, their sex is no bar to success - it's simply another weapon in their arsenal. Claire Grant profiles Britain's top 10 Young Alpha Females.

Captain courageous
Sailing: Assa Abloy's skipper Neal McDonald talks about battling the ice - and the seaweed - in the ocean.

Protesters fear nuclear terror heist on high seas
A plutonium cargo on board two merchant ships sailing from Japan to Cumbria is enough for 50 N-bombs - making it a potential target for Al-Qaeda.

French America's Cup yacht struck by Greenpeace protesters
Sailing: The hull of the Areva was damaged in Lorient in an attack which caused the cancellation of the boat's inaugural outing.

Illbruck powers ahead
Sailing: John Kostecki set a world record of 484 miles for 24 hours during a hectic seventh leg of sailing's Volvo Ocean Race.