Smash Hit

Sport in brief: smart Ainslie leads way

Team Origin, with the Olympic champion in charge, begin the Louis Vuitton Cup with a 59-second victory over Synergy

Interview: Sam Davies

The woman they call the new Ellen MacArthur occasionally sails naked but is packing thermals for a perilous race across the Atlantic

Caffari doubles up for 4,700-mile sprint

Round-the-world solo sailor joins her British rival, Brian Thompson, in the Transat Jacques Vabre race to Costa Rica

I will go through Hellman’s or high water

How mayonnaise is easing Alex Thomson's Vendée Globe pain

Laura Dekker lacks what she'll need most

A stopping circumnavigation on a small boat is more manageable, but still presents an ordeal that could break her spirit

Court grounds young round-the-world sailor

Dutch judge says Laura Dekker, 14, is not yet qualified to for global solo sail and must undergo safety training

London calling: measuring Britain’s progress

After success in Beijing how are likes of Victoria Pendleton and Nick Dempsey shaping up for their home Olympic Games?

Feud leaves America’s Cup with no waters to sail

Court denies Cup holders Alinghi's request to hold the regatta in the UAE after challenge by the software giant Oracle

Team Origin: the green team

America’s Cup contenders adopt a new environmental agenda

'Lie' behind Australian America's Cup victory

Australian credited with design of yacht that famously over turned Americans' 132 year winning streak 'did not design boat'

Australian sailors killed in tragic accident

Andrew Short and Sally Gordon died when the super yacht they were racing crashed into a rocky reef off NSW on Saturday

Schoolgirl Jessica Watson ready to set sail

The Australian teenager will this weekend attempt to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo

Time and place: Ben Ainslie

Britain’s most successful Olympic sailor recalls an idyllic childhood in a remote cottage in Cornwall, where his career began

Britons take liking to Weymouth before 2012

The venue for the Olympic Games in 2012 proved popular with home sailors at the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta

Ainslie targets British waters for challenge

The three-times Olympic gold medal-winner is keen for the America’s Cup to be raced in monohull boats

Macgregor seeks new three blondes in a boat

Sailing: Removal of the Yngling from the Olympic class list leaves way open for lighter, faster Elliott boats to excel

The Southampton Boating spectacular

Britain’s largest boat show kicks off this weekend with 1,000 boats on display in an area the size of 25 football pitches

Wheelchair aweigh, I'm taming the Atlantic

Geoff Holt hopes to become the first quadriplegic to sail across the Atlantic unaided, 25 years after he did the trip able-bodied

Schoolgirl's solo sailing bid hampered by crash

An Australian teenager’s bid to circumnavigate the world solo has taken a setback after her yacht crashed into a cargo ship

Ainslie gives bullies a black eye

Four-times Olympic medal-winner overcame a cruel pitfall of youth