For the second year in a row, David and Peter Askew's Volvo 70 Wizard (USA) has taken Monohull Line Honours in the RORC Caribbean 600.

The season will begin strongly with The Transat CIC (start on 10th May), a legendary event on a modified race course between Brest and Charleston (South Carolina).

PowerPlay (CAY), skippered by Ned Collier Wakefield has taken Multihull Line Honours just four minutes ahead of Jason Carroll's MOD70 Argo (USA).

After a sublime start and a reach up to Barbuda in beautiful conditions, the majority of the fleet experienced the first trap of the course.

From the Medoc region of France, Lalou Roucayrol the winner of the 2017 Transat Jacques-Vabre and numerous other offshore races, will compete alongside a number of co-skippers from his Lalou Multi training centre.

The impressive 73-boat fleet gathered outside Antigua's English Harbour, relishing the prospect of racing 600nm in stunning conditions.

A fast downhill run allowed Chinese Whisper and Naval Group to finish inside the old record.

Soldini’s main rivals are the two 70s; Argo and PowerPlay, both of which he has competed against on previous occasions.

Aikin Hames Sharley will start its first event since being ruled out of the 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race with a cracked hull.

The new reference time is 31 days, 23 hours, 36 minutes and 46 seconds, about a third of the time taken by the big clippers.

Joyon and his crew are set to shatter the record held since 2018 by the Italian crew of the trimaran Maserati by over four days.

The lead over the record has been growing steadily over the hours and now exceeds 700 miles, but Francis and his crew are in survival mode owing to dangerous conditions.

The strong NW’ly air stream that is accompanying IDEC SPORT and her crew should enable them to be propelled at around thirty knots to the Channel approaches.

Joyon and his crew will arrive at the European finish line with tea from their Vietnam stopover - to help promote the ancient way of growing tea.

The mother and daughter duo of Melanie and Jasmine Morris particularly enjoyed WTC’s win, as they were on a boat where women outnumbered the blokes.