Francis Joyon continues to make rapid progress through the Southern Ocean

British first time Open 60 sailor moves up to third in Defi Atlantique

Bookings now being taken for 2004 Global Challenge for invidual legs

Newly into second having averaged 20 knots for the last six hours, a frenzied Alex Thomson calls us from on board

Bad news for Transat Jacques Vabre winner - Golding hits a whale

Francis Joyon sinks his teeth into the Southern Ocean

Tyco's new owner Hamish Oliphant on their record breaking passage across the Atlantic

As Jean-Luc van den Heede attempts the approach to the Strait of LeMaire

Close battles, as the Open 60 singlehanders in the Defi Atlantique work out how to tackle an impending high pressure system

Francis Joyon takes on first Southern Ocean depression