With nothing more than a handful of small miles separating them, the leaders of the Vendée Globe are engaged on a straight head-to-head speed test which may yet prove decisive, and which may finally show the ultimate value of a fully functioning latest generation foil package. In what is likely to be a close reaching then reaching drag race up ...

As the challengers for the 36th America’s Cup prepare to square off this week, Suzanne McFadden finds Kiwi sailor Sean Clarkson making an eighth bid for the silverware – but this time for the Americans Sean Clarkson is a rarity in the America’s Cup sailing fraternity. At 52, the Kiwi professional sailor is lining up in his eighth America’s Cup ...