Comment from Ray Whilst Dan & Tom appear to be making light of the auto helm problems and let us hope that they have managed to correct the fault. During the 1000 mile qualifier the auto helm had a rather nasty habit of gybing the boat inadvertently (not want you want in the Atlantic) after the ...

Report from shore crew Class 40 sailors, Tom Gall and Dan Gohl reached half way today, on the 4340 mile course of the TVJ race. Over the past few days they have had many experiences including catching a tuna and a very dramatic wipe out, of which Dan made us an exclusive account of: ‘It's going ok...

Report from Tom 14th November 2007 It's hot! I'm sailing in my shorts and t-shirt with a nice warm 10- 12kt breeze. Wish you were here!! Yesterday morning we were going down wind in 10- 15 kts and a squall of around 30kts hit the boat. We had our big spinnaker up at the time and the boat was spun ar...

Report from Tom 14th November It's hot! I'm sailing in my shorts and t-shirt with a nice warm 10- 12kt breeze. Wish you were here!! Yesterday morning we were going down wind in 10- 15 kts and a squall of around 30kts hit the boat. We had our big spinnaker up at the time and the boat was spun around ...

Report from Shore Crew The last 24 hours have been particularly interesting within the Class 40 fleet, with Fujifilm announcing that they have had to retire due to alternator problems, joining Ocean Warrior in the list of boats who will not be able to complete the race and the wind proving to make t...

Ned Wakefield was involved along with Dan Gohl in project Concise 49 and the Transat Jaccques Vabre 2007 from the outset around a year ago. For various reasons Ned pulled out of the project about 5 weeks ago and this gave the sponser an opportunity to meet Tom and agree to continue with the venture....