Boats began arriving on Monday after completing the first leg of the TransArc Race from the Canary Islands. About half of the 18-boat fleet had arrived in port yesterday and will be here until May 20, before beginning the second leg to the UK.

St. George's is also a stopover point for boats coming from Antigua Race Week.

After the weather clears, they will head to Newport, Rhode Island, where they will await the start of the Newport to Bermuda Race, beginning on June 18.

SOCCER SOC West Ham manager Harry Redknapp and assistant Frank Lampard are returning to Bermuda next month to run their popular junior soccer clinic. The coaches of the English Premier League team have run the clinic, which regularly attracts between 60 and 70 local youngsters, for the past two years.

The sessions will be run from Monday June 1 to Friday June 5 between 4.15 p.m.

and 6.30 p.m. Each participant will be given a personal assessment at the end of the course.

One of the organisers, Alan Pailing, said it was open to boys and girls aged between eight and 15. He added: "The clinic is extremely well disciplined -- these are professional coaches and they don't mess around.'' A number of local coaches usually get involved and Redknapp and Lampard are expected to pass on some tips to them as well.

This year's course will take place at Berkeley Institute field. The cost is $50. Registration forms will be avaialable at schools and through other outlets shortly.

TRIATHLON TRI The future of Bermuda triathlon competes this weekend in the first event of the season.

More than 100 boys and girls are expected to take part in the Pirate's Port Junior Triathlon, Sunday at Clearwater Beach in St.David's. Children aged 7-10 will swim 100 metres, bike five kilometres and run one kilometre; those aged 11-14 will swim, bike and run twice as far.

There is also an advanced category (300m swim, 15K bike and 3K run), which should make for an intriguing battle among Chris Conway, Brian Steinhoff, Adam Petty and Matthew Herring. Robin Dickinson is favoured among the girls.

Geoffrey Smith and Flora Duffy are the ones to watch among 7-10 year-olds.

Melissa DeSilva and Ashley Kirkpatrick are expected to dominate the girls 11-14 category while the boys division is wide open.

Kevin Tucker led a handful of Bermuda residents in the Gulf Coast Triathlon in Panama City, Florida, on the weekend.

Tucker completed the half-ironman distance in four hours, 50 minutes and 39 seconds, good for an overall placing of 352nd out of 1,435 finishers.

Bermuda's Jon Brunson, Kim Mason, Granville Gibbons, Trevor Todd and Greg Bernius were among the others to tackle the 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike and 13.1-mile run.

Mason was 654th overall in 5:19.10 but was fifth in her age group. Brunson finished 440th in 4:58.27, Gibbons in 5:20.39 and Todd in 5:21.55. Bernius ended up with a DNF beside his name after a flat tyre in the bike stage.

Tucker led the locals with a 36:54 swim and 1:44.17 run while the best cyclist was Gibbons in 2:23.51.