Sailing: Ellen faces Xmas storm
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Ellen MacArthur steels herself for the next big weather system on her round-the-world record bid.
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Ellen MacArthur solves some of the problems threatening to end her bid to break the solo round-the-world record.
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Snow is expected to strike many parts of Britain as a ferry runs aground on Blackpool beach.
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British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur set sail in an attempt to set a new solo round-the-world record.
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Yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur's was powering ahead in her bid to set a new solo round-the-world record as she navigated 715 miles off the southwest tip of Australia.
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FASLANE, Scotland (CP) - The homeward voyage of Canada's crippled submarine has been delayed by bad weather in Scotland.
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A stricken cargo ship off the Devon coast is at risk of sinking if weather deteriorates over the next few days.
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Foreign Corresp. A Bahamas-registered liner with more than 730 passengers on board has appealed for assistance, after losing communications and most of its power in a severe storm in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Thousands of people welcome back record-breaking sailor Ellen MacArthur to Falmouth in Cornwall.
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Bad weather is hampering efforts to salvage a lifeboat stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, off the Antrim coast.
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By Matt Sabo, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Dec. 10--GLOUCESTER -- The day before Thanksgiving, John Boon ran down to York River Yacht Haven at Gloucester Point to check on his boat amid the latest nor'easter.
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By BEN DOBBIN  ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A 19th-century commercial sailing ship, its twin masts still intact, sits upright in deep, frigid waters off the southern shore of Lake Ontario.
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By Stowe, Gene  Winter weather has delayed the boating season by about three weeks, says Don Daly, who owns Eagle Lake Marine in Edwardsburg with his wife Charmayne.
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Britain's Ellen MacArthur became the fastest sailor to complete a solo non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, when she crossed the finish line at Ushant, off the French coast.
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Heavy snow, rain and gales were expected across the south and west of England and Wales last night, threatening road chaos at the start of the Christmas holiday.
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Motorists are warned the arrival of wet and windy weather could make driving difficult on Christmas Eve.
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Ellen MacArthur breaks the record for a solo trip from the English Channel to the Cape of Good Hope.