This week we're talking speed - A new beast of a design for Ferrari who have their eye set on ocean records, a new milestone for the SP80 campaign as they work towards setting a new outright speed sai

How do you get to grips with one 91m mast let alone two?! PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan finds out. Here's a teaser of the full feature in which Matt talks to the captain of the world's biggest sailing ket

How do you get to grips with one 91m mast let alone two?! PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan finds out. Here's a teaser of the full feature in which Matt talks to the captain of the world's biggest sailing ket

The Royal Thames Yacht Club's 250th Anniversary was a spectacular affair. With over 250 boats from the latest carbon flyers to beautiful classics that were more than a century old, the four day regatta to celebrate one of the oldest clubs in the world had ticked many of the boxes even before the fleet had turned up. PlanetSail was there in the thick of the action, afloat, on board and picking up the chatter ashore. Here's a little teaser of what's in store in our feature

A record 12 teams turned up in New York for the 6th event in the SailGP calendar, but the breeze was slow to the party. For most teams the tricky conditions made this a roller coaster ride though the points board. The full PlanetSail review is now live online, here's a snippet of the action

It's a little known fact that masts makers Southern Spars built one of the Kiwi America's Cup winning boats. Emirates Team New Zealand mechanical engineer Martin McElwee explains which boat brought the Cup to NZ and how the lessons learned in the production of America's Cup masts at Southern Spars flowed both ways and even into boat building.

They build some of the biggest and fastest carbon masts in the world - PlanetSail gets inside Southern Spars to see how they do it

Southern Spars founder and managing director Mark Hauser explains the link between the America's Cup and Southern Spars

The new Magic Carpet- promises to be a slippery machine on the race course. yet unlike many of those she'll be up against this new Maxi has an impressive interior designed for cruising along with a power system that is at the leading edge of design. Matt Sheahan gets the exclusive tour below decks

In the second part of our exclusive three part series, Matt Sheahan gets aboard, goes sailing and takes the wheel to experience at first hand what this new rocket ship is like and talks to owner Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, skipper Danny Gallichan and project manager Ed Bell about how this sophisticated and slippery Maxi works in practice.

The initial goal was clear, to be the fastest Maxi in the Mediterranean but with her fully electric systems that power everything from winches, hydraulics and propulsion, Magic Carpet-e is the most advanced 100ft Maxi to be launched. PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan got aboard to see the detail and get his hands on this extraordinary machine under sail

Auckland has a long history of hosting the Whitbread/Volvo and now Ocean Race. And after a break the famous stopover is back on the calendar. Race chairman Richard Brisius explains to Matt Sheahan why its a big deal

Hot foot from completing the Vendee Globe, solo sailor Conrad Colman talks to Matt Sheahan about his plans for a new Kiwi team for the next Ocean Race

Matt Sheahan gets aboard 'Big Red' the most famous offshore boat in the history of the Whitbread/Volvo/Ocean Race and heads below decks to see what life was like then and what Steinlager 2 looks like today

Ahead of the Caribbean 600 the Nelson's Cup series had provided a few clues as to the potential pecking order

IRC class Two kicked things off with the multihulls starting last 40 minutes later ?? And after rounding the eastern end of Antigua, the fleet cracked sheets to head north to the next mark off Barbuda. Among the talking points ahead of this year's race there was plenty of attention focused on the IRC fleets, especially on the big guns.

Six hundred miles?.. 13 legs??? 11 islands??.. And a fleet of 66 boats?? Plus, one of the most impressive line ups of maxis and high performance machines that the race has ever seen The Caribbean 600 kicked off this week in spectacular conditions

Jingkun Xu's race around the world may not have placed him on the podium but the candid way in which the one armed sailor who speaks no English or French told his story truck a chord with a huge audience This week's review focusses on his amazing trip as well as taking a look at the two other finishers this week. @VendeeGlobeENG @xujingkun99

Chinese sailor Jingkun Xu's wore his heart on his sleeve as he raced around the world. So did many of the other sailors and while everyone's story was fascinating, the fact that Jingkun has just one arm speaks no English and ran his entire campaign with barely any shore crew made his story all the more fascinating. But his journey was more than that - when he talked to the camera he did so to mark a moment in his journey, for good or for bad and you just couldn't help but get drawn into his world. This week we take a summary look at his incredible story and trip around the world in our Week 15 review - here's a teaser. @VendeeGlobeENG @xujingkun99hines

This was Jingkun Xu's first Vendée Globe but the one armed Chinese sailor is no stranger to offshore sailing. In the West he was barely known...in China he has a huge following. Where did Jingkun Xu come from and how big is his achievement? This week's Vendee Globe review focusses on his amazing trip as well as taking a look at the two other finishers this week. @VendeeGlobeENG @xujingkun99