Route du Rhum Ultime podium is completed

We look at the giant trimaran setting sail singlehanded across the North Atlantic

Disaster for Lionel Lemonchois mid-South Atlantic

Lionel Lemonchois to set sail tomorrow to try to better Francis Joyon's time

Lionel Lemonchois and VPLP's Quentin Lucet tell us about the transformation of the Sodebo ORMA 60 into the Prince de Bretagne 80

Route des Princes under starters orders in Valencia

Gathering of the French multihull clans

Route des Princes due to start in Valencia and visit Plymouth in June

Lionel Lemonchois' new 80ft trimaran Prince de Bretagne unveiled

Introducing the Route des Princes

Erwan Le Roux's FenêtréA-Cardinal comes out on top at the Trophee du Port de Fecamps

Quietly the ORMA-lite class continues to grow

Images from Rick Tomlinson and James Boyd

Actual within a minute of the JP Morgan Asset Management ROund the Island course record

80ft trimaran aiming to be 2014 Route du Rhum winner

12 races were sailed over the Easter Bank Holiday at Spi Ouest-France Intermarché

VPLP's Vincent Lauriot Prevost on Banque Populaire, the AC design package and the new Prince de Bretagne tri

Transat Jacques Vabre fleet in for a pasting

Class 40, IMOCA 60 and Multi50 fleets must be in Le Havre by 21 October

After a bumpy gusty ride in the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race

Paul Goodison and Saskia Clarke joined by Denise van Outen in record-sized fleet

But with the Multi50s hot on her heels in France's Round the Island equivalent

Jessica Watson and Mike Perham to compete together as Lionel Lemonchois joins the entry list

Another trophy on the mantlepiece for the 2006 Route du Rhum victor and record holder