Andy Meiklejohn (NZL) and Wouter Verbraak (NED) on Hugo Boss crossed the finish line off the W Hotel during the very early hours of a breezy Barcelona night, at 00:49:23 local time (22:49:

Mapfre PalmaVela set sail for the maxis and TP52s today on the Bay of Palma in 14-16 knot easterly winds of 14 to 16 knots on a 8.6 mile long course.

Racing gets underway tomorrow at the Mapfre PalmaVela on the Bay of Palma, the regatta running under Easter Sunday.

No great surprise, but Spanish double Olympic 49er medallists Iker Martinez and Xabi Fernandez have confirmed they will lead Team Telefónica, in the Volvo Ocean Race.

With one month left until the first start of the 2011 Audi MedCup circuit, the organisers and the race teams are finalising their preparations to unfold their seventh successive year of fleet racin

After passing Gibraltar last night at 2115 GMT Hugo Boss is into the western Alboran Sea progressing at around 9 knots with the decreasing easterly wind, just approaching the longitud

It seems like only yesterday we were down at the high security superyacht dock in Palma, crawling around Niklas Zennström’s Rán 2 72ft Mini Maxi.

Dee Caffari and her Spanish co skipper Anna Corbella aboard their yacht GAES Centros Auditivos, crossed the finish line of the Barcelona World Race at 07:17 GMT this morning to claim sixth

Telefónica have just issued the statement that they are back for the third consecutive edition to take part in the Volvo Ocean Race.

There is a new force to be reckoned with in shorthanded racing for it can be no coincidence that in the Barcelona World Race the second, third and fourth placed teams were all Spanish.