Captain JP's log

With the end of the Volvo Ocean Race Captain JP is going to take a summer break. Over the next month there are five family birthdays, three ...

ABN AMRO ONE - 9/10 For the last half of the race there has been little doubt as to the overall winner. With a crack team, able manager as s...

The poor coverage in the UK of this Volvo has not helped Britain and Portsmouth's bid to remain involved in future races. The company wi...

As predicted by the pretty Volvo girl (and reported here ) the next Volvo is only 2 years off, with a 3 gap between starts. And as predicted...

As the last leg of the Volvo Ocean Race comes to a close there is no doubt that Mike Sanderson's ABN1 has dominated this race. Its perfo...

Tidal gates are not something you expect from the Volvo Ocean Race. It's that word "Ocean" that implies you'll be far offs...

What’s a slow drag race? The Volvo fleet might have turned the corner up by the currently mild mannered Cape Wrath , but there is a long way...

This leg of the Volvo Ocean Race is not going to plan. They never seem to do so, and never in the same way. The last leg suffered from too m...

As the sun rose glowing fresh above the mist of the Hamble river we were forced out of snug sleeping bags at 05:00 to head out to the unfeas...

It was a slow restart to what is turning out to be a very very slow leg on the Volvo Ocean Race. We were positioned off Cowes at the norther...

It was surreal to be staying down on Gunwharf Quay. At the hotel I was staying in were also many crew including most of Brazil, as well as o...

It was a day of blustery showers out on the Solent as the boats of the Volvo Ocean Race battled breakages and squalls for the Portsmouth In-...

Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race has finished. But not all of the crew, and not all of the boats have made it safe ashore. It has been a long w...

As ABN2 sails away from the abandoned Movistar let's remember her in happier days - here sailing in the Fastnet 2005. And remember that ...

No one will forget Leg 7 of this Volvo Ocean Race. Already reeling from the death of Hans Horrevoets the fleet are having to come to terms w...

When sailing across an ocean there are two things you can't do. You can't get off and you can't stop. So the grim mood on the bo...

There is terrible news today from ABN2. Crew member Hans Horrevoets was swept overboard into the cold Atlantic in 30 knot winds and 5 metre ...

Within the next 12 hours Dee Caffari should cross the finish line to complete her mammouth sail around the world "the wrong way". ...

Even the wind gods are currently favouring Mike Sanderson and the boys on Black Betty out at the front on Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race. The...

The tension is mounting as Dee gets ever closer to the finishing line of her epic sail around the world the wrong way. During the past 180 d...