You are alone on a small sailing boat, more than four thousand miles of ocean ahead and you are up against approximately 80 sailors. It will take you three or four weeks to get to the finishing line.

Absolutely, says Kirsten Neuschäfer, a long-distance solo sailing expert. In her day job transporting boats, Neuschäfer routinely sails solo across the ocean, sometimes for more than 30 days at a time ...

Francis Joyon had no heat, no companions and little sleep for nearly two months as he sailed around the globe. Now he has a stunning world record. The 51-year-old Frenchman circled the planet alone in ...

Eight years ago, Amy Stout of Petersburg bought a sailboat at a junkyard. She spent years fixing it up and, last summer, she did something only one other woman has done so far: complete the Lake Erie ...

LES SABLES D'OLONNE, France (Reuters) - The biggest challenge facing the Vendee Globe's solo round-the-world racers is sleeping not sailing, according to the gruelling event's doctor Jean-Yves Chauve.