Further casualties in the Transat Jacques Vabre

Big conditions take their toll in the Transat Jacques Vabre

Forestay problems for Maitre CoQ as the Transat Jacques Vabre fleet braces itself

But it is a case of 'calm before the storm' for the Transat Jacques Vabre fleet

Evil Monday night ahead; the Class 40 where Team Concise is flying the flag for the UK

Nikki Curwen has acquired a new Proto and is firing on all cylinders

Sole British competitor Pip Hare tells of her Mini Transat

Grizzly 40 knot deliveries to Sada for the majority of the Mini Transat fleet

Mini Transat fleet closes on Sada

As the Mini Transat fleet heads upwind across the Bay of Biscay

Lone British competitor Pip Hare tells of her campaign and the latest about this year's race

Pip Hare joins Phillippa Hutton-Squire for the doublehanded Normandy Channel Race

Pip Hare tells Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker about the solo class for the next Solent 650, the new Transat course and her new role at the RNLI

Doublehanded race from Lymington to Plymouth has just finished

Qualifier sets sail from Lymington, the feeder race to the RWYC's UK Mini Fastnet

Pip Hare tells us of her campaign and how Mini sailing is coming to the UK in 2012

Massive victory on the cards for Team Work Evolution in the Mini Transat

Top four Protos making hay in the Mini Transat

Proto leader David Raison firmly into the southeasterly trades in the Mini Transat

However a second set of Doldrums looks set to stall the Mini Transat's front runners

As an area of high pressure develops to the east of the Mini Transat fleet

Mini Transat competitors lining up for the Doldrums

As there is yet another pair of new leaders in the Mini Transat

Another new leader in both classes in the Mini Transat

As big reaching conditions take their toll on the Mini Transat fleet

Leg two of the Mini Transat departs Madeira

Mini Transat resumes today with a 3,130 mile leg from Funchal to Bahia

Sebastien Rogues likely to be first into Funchal on the Mini Transat