For the first time in the ASP World tour, a rookie has won the championship. Stephanie Gilmore, 19 yo, wins the 2007 ranking ahead of Peruvian Sofia Mulanovich and Silvana Lima from Brazil.
Winner of the prototype division of the Transat 650 : In Funchal, Le Blévec had been beaten by Isabelle Joschke and Sam Manuard. He said he slowed down to sail safely. He did well. Isa and Sam broke in leg 2 and Yves won it. As he won the race in the prototype division. He is the seasailsurfer of the month.
All as not been easy for Le Blévec even if he signed early in 2006 with his sponsor from 2001 (when he entered in the Mini for the first time). In July 2006, Groupe Actual, his Lombard designed 6.50 was launched. But too late to enter in the solo race to the Azores. In december he was then far away in the wayting list for the Mini-Transat. But he continued to compete and accumulated wins and podium places. In september he was in La Rochelle when the Classe Mini and the organisation opend the starting line to 5 more skippers (from 84 to 89 !). and you now know the end…
689 votes made the SeaSailsurfers of 2010. The male winner is Thomas Ruyant, winner of the Route du Rhum in Class40. He did it one year after his win in the solo Transat 650. And he is so popular he wins the title of SeaSailSurfer of the year ahead of the funboarder Antoine Albeau (Sailor of the year for the french federation) and ahead of (…)
Jeremy Flores has won the Billabong Pipe Master, the last event of the 2010 ASP World Tour. Defaiting Kelly Slater in the semis, is the first European surfer to win this great event, the first french to win an event in the ASP circuit. He is the SeaSailSurfer of December.
Don’t you have a feeling of dejà-vu ? Thomas Ruyant, hands up, with his fetish hat, arriving as a winner in a solo race ? Transat 650 2009 ? Yes. One yer after his win in the Mini-Transat, he has won the Route du Rhum. He is the SeaSailSurfer of the month.
On said kitesurfing is not sailing. Other said the Luderitz Speed Challenge’ spot is not deep enough. But the channel in Namibia is a fixed place with 500 meters marks and is more than 80 cm deep. When kitesurfers and windsurfers sail there, there are truly in the spirit of the original Weymouth and Brest Speed Weekds. Their records are not (…)
Russell Coutts, the boss of the american Defender, BMW Oracle Racing, has made younger the older sport trophy of the world. As the competition will be sailed aboard wingsailed catamarans, he made the trophy, and sport sailing competition, entering the third millenary. He is the SeaSailSurfer of the month.
August 2010 was rich in events and performances. Many SeaSailSurfers made great performances. We will however retain Bertrand Delesne’s run in the second leg of race to the Azores. On his mini, he covered 304,90 miles in 24 hours. He is SeaSailSurfer of the month !
Pendant que le catamaran Orange a effectué une sortie en mer dans la rade de Brest pour contrôler la tension du gréement remonté mercredi dernier, Bruno Peyron a précisé quelques points sur sa tentative de record contre le Trophée Jules Verne lors d’une conférence de presse tenue à Paris.
To describe the feeling of breaking a mast, 1200 miles from land, deep in the remotest ocean on the planet is almost impossible. The crew onboard SEB are numbed but resolute. Hopes and dreams are washed over the side with the remains of the rig as it is cut free to prevent it from punching a hole in the hull of the boat.
Dématé dès son arrivée à Brest la semaine dernière, le maxi-catamaran Orange a retrouvé hier son gréement complet. Le bateau achève en ce moment ses derniers préparatifs au Port de commerce, dans l’attente de la fenêtre météo libératrice. Début du stand-by, lundi 11 février à partir de 12h00.
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Un homme. Seul. Et l’océan Arctique. Un traversée vers le pôle Nord. Puis une circumnavigation entre les 55° et 71° de latitude Nord… Voici le nouveau projet de l’aventurier tous terrains Mike Horn. Portrait - programme.
Le skipper du Figaro Créaline, deuxième de la Solitaire 2001 et deuxième du championnat de France des solitaires fait partie des treize hommes à embarquer sur le catamaran Orange mené par Bruno Peyron. Lors du convoyage de Marseille à Brest, où le voilier est actuellement en préparation avant de prendre le départ de sa tentative de record (…)
Le prochain défi de la Bretonne Raphaëla Le Gouvello est de traverser le Pacifique en planche à voile. Une ’Odyssée du Vent’ qui devait lui permettre de partir de Panama cette année, pour rejoindre l’Australie via Tahiti. Mais les conditions météo en océan Pacifique lui imposent de retarder son aventure.
Sadly, the surfing world lost a true character today when 1987 World Longboard Champion Stuart ’Twiz’ Entwistle (Aus) passed away in Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. The 52 year old had been fighting skin cancer and associated problems for the past three years, but after undergoing another operation last Friday, his health continued to (…)