One design progress report, teams and ports for 2014-5 and much more

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

The former Artemis Offshore Academy scholarship winner on his Figaro campaign and Vendee 2016 plans

James Stagg gives us the guided tour to Charles Dunstone's WallyCento Hamilton

The former Bahrain Team Pindar skipper gives his assessment of the solo round the world race

Paul Larsen describes how he took Vestas SailRocket to the unimaginable speed of 65 knots...average

The Hugo Boss skipper on the race so far, his lamination skills and protesting TSS violators

Vincent Lauriot Prevost and Quentin Lucet on some surprising developments with their latest designs

Vestas SailRocket demolishes sailing speed world record

Thoughts on the union with Keith Mills, going one design and going eco

We learn more about the OSM-IMOCA deal and look at the problems it will face

Brisk start for the Vendee Globe fleet

The grand tour concludes with Sam Davies' Saveol, Tanguy de LaMotte's Initiatives Coeur and the race favourite Banque Populaire