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First in Line Honours & IRC Leg Four and still possible for OVERALL RACE IRCFrench Dominate the Leaderboard!! Emotional scenes as Marie Tabarly

Arriving in 12 knots of wind and strong tidal currents Marie, first mate Tom Napper and the ten determined crew onboard looked both relieved and immen...

Pen Duick VI second , Spirit of Helsinki third, Maiden fourth across the line with a Steinlager 2 and Lion NZ escort, recreating Whitbread History!

In the spirit of the Whitbread, 14 yachts from 23 different countries set off from Cowes to compete in The Ocean Globe Race 2023-24

English artist Tom Napper is illustrating every place he visits on New Zealand's North and South Islands.

“It was probably the most stressful three days of my life,” Napper said. “You didn’t know how long it was going to be for. It could have been a month, or it could have been a year – which it was.” Tom Napper/Supplied Napper ended up stranded in New Zealand for a year. But Napper soon realised New Zealand wasn’t the worst place to be stranded during a pandemic. “It was the choice between having a load of green space in Balclutha and being safe from Covid, or going back to a t...

When a 30-day trip turned into 365 days, Tom Napper got out his sketchbook and decided to make the most of it.