Francois Gabart - former Optimist National Champion, engineer, Figaro sailor, now Vendee Globe winner

Designers VPLP-Verdier, Technical Manager Antoine Gautier and others tell us about the Vendee Globe-winning boat

Joerg Riechers tells us of graduating up from the Mini and Class40

The British designer using 'neural networks' in design and linking up with Team Concise and McConaghy China

The next Class40 round the world race will be bigger, better and with a new class structure

On the dismasting and on MACIF and Banque Populaire fight for the front

Hugh Welbourn tells us of the new Quant 30, the DSS-equipped Mini and the Infiniti 36

Nick Bubb and Paul Larsen will be part of the crew re-enacting the famous voyage from Elephant Island to South Georgia

The Artemis Offshore Academy's Nikki Curwen tells us of her Mini campaign for 2013

Autopilot developments are part of the reason the IMOCA 60s are achieving their massive daily runs

Designer Vladislav Murnikov talks us through the nuts and bolts of his radical creation

One design progress report, teams and ports for 2014-5 and much more

Pip Hare tells Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker about the solo class for the next Solent 650, the new Transat course and her new role at the RNLI