The Daily Sail got the views of leading trimaran designer Nigel Irens

We speak to Groupama skipper Franck Cammas about his capsize and the demolition of the 60ft trimaran fleet

BT Global Challenge winner Conrad Humphreys recounts the dismasting of his Open 40 in the Route du Rhum

Battered and bruised but landed in Cape Town after 30 days of solo racing

James Boyd spoke to Miranda Merron about the Route du Rhum - her first singlehanded handed offshore race

Gilles Martin-Raget's outstanding photos from the multihull start of the 2002 Route du Rhum

We look at who will finish where amongst the class 1 monohulls

James Boyd gives the insiders guide to this top ocean racing event

In St Malo Ellen, Mike Golding, Nick Moloney and Roland Jourdain got together to give their views on the Route du Rhum

James Boyd reviews the 60ft tri fleet taking part in this weekend's singlehanded transatlantic race

James Boyd took a tour around one of the newest and most radical of the 60ft trimarans

Some of the most extraordinary sailing images you'll ever see courtesy of Yvan Zedda and the BlueGreen photo agency

James Boyd caught up with the Pindar skipper mid-South Atlantic on Around Alone