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.
She has won the first leg of the 2007 Mini-Transat : Who can beat Isabelle Joschke ? The answer will come in Bahia at the end of the second leg. But during the first one, no one could sail faster. She won this leg one from La Rochelle to Funchal in Madeira and she is the SeaSailSurfer of the month.
Isabelle Joschke a remporté la première étape de la Transat 650 2007
This year, Isabelle and her Finot-Coq prototype mini has won two races. She let the others to Le Blévec, Laureyssens and Caracci. But in the first leg, she was the best ! She took the lead at the end of the first day before perfectly rounding cape Finisterra. Then she sailed uneder the direct route to get more wind and more speed. She finished in Funchal 4h20 ahead of Manuard, 5h15 ahead of Le Blévec and 10 hours ahead of Deshayes. Well done ! Now she has to control her competitors in the long second leg toward Brazil. To be the first woman to win the Mini-Transat and to enter in the small list of women to have won a solo transtlantic race.
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 !
"Ascension rounded at 0010 GMT the 16th – We’re off !" said Ellen’s brief email sent to the Transat Jacques Vabre Race HQ over night from leading multihull Kingfisher-Foncia. One hour 17 minutes later, at 0127 GMT, the next ‘fax of deliverance’ came through. "Groupama here, we are passing the Easterly point of the Ascension Islands. Franck."
« Ascension rounded at 00.10 (TU) the 16th – We’re off ! » : voilà le bref mail envoyé par Ellen MacArthur cette nuit au PC Course de la Transat Jacques Vabre. Une heure dix-sept plus tard, soit à 1H27 TU, c’est au tour de Groupama d’envoyer son « fax-délivrance » : « Ici Groupama, on passe la pointe Est de l’Ascension. A +, Franck ».
L’équipage américain d’Oracle Racing, le défi du milliardaire Larry Ellison avec le Néo Zélandais Chris Dickson à la barre, va troquer ses cirés pour des combinaisons de plongée.
The outstanding achievements of sailors Ellen MacArthur (GBR) and Robert Scheidt (BRA) were recognised by the world of sailing with the announcement at the prestigious Awards Presentation held tonight, 13 November 2001, Lisbon, Portugal, that they are the respective female and male "ISAF Rolex
World Sailors of the Year 2001".
Depuis le début de son tour du monde contre vents et courants, Jean Luc Van Den Heede s’exprimait toujours avec bonne humeur et sérénité. Aujourd’hui, le ton a changé et c’est d’une voix abattue, que, la mort dans l’âme, VDH annonçait son abandon.
Alors qu’il avait plus de quatre jours d’avance sur le record de Philippe Monnet, Jean Luc Van Den Heede est contraint d’interrompre sa course. En effet, après avoir franchi le Cap Horn, hier soir à 19 heures 41 précisément, le skipper amiénois continuait sa route dans le Pacifique dans des conditions de mer particulièrement « musclées ». Ce (…)
A 14 heures 51 aujourd’hui, Jean Luc Van den Heede entrait dans son 34e jour de mer et s’apprêtait à franchir le Cap Horn. C’est vers 18 heures qu’ADRIEN passait le rocher mythique dans des conditions météorologiques optimales. Son adversaire virtuel, Philippe Monnet, avait franchi le Horn le 16 février 2000, soit après 38 jours, 9 heures et 15 (…)
A l’issue de trois journées très disputées, c’est finalement l’équipage Costarmoricain de Groupe Générali Assurances qui a remporté le National Figaro Bénéteau. Il s’impose devant les Finistériens d’Espoir Crédit Agricole et le double tenant du titre, Pokémon. Une seule manche aura finalement été disputée aujourd’hui en rade de Brest , (…)
The wind Gods were smiling today for the start of the 6,550 nautical mile leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race to Sydney, providing spectacular sailing conditions in Table Bay, under the watchful gaze of Table Mountain. A freshening westerly 24-knot breeze blew out of a clear and cloudless blue sky, declaring a true beat to windward towards the (…)
Une semaine après le départ des monocoques de la 5e Transat Jacques Vabre, 6 jours après le départ des multicoques, il apparaît clairement que la course se joue beaucoup avant le départ… Plusieurs concurrents joints ce samedi pendant la vacation l’ont évoqué, pour expliquer leurs bonnes ou mauvaises performances, voire leur abandon (BANQUE COVEFI).