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 !
After five days of sailing in challenging conditions, competitors and officials alike judged the 2001 International Foundation of Disabled Sailing (IFDS) World Disabled Sailing Championships a resounding success. The championship, held in Florida from October 24-31, was co-hosted by St. Petersburg Yacht Club and Sailing Alternatives (a disabled (…)
La phrase est de Michel Desjoyeaux (Belgacom) et rappelle sa remarque d’hier matin, comme quoi « la journée (de jeudi donc !) n’allait pas être dénuée d’intérêt ! ». Et, en effet, si l’on regarde les positions de ce matin 6h00, Foncia (Gautier/MacArthur) a 4,5 milles d’avance sur le trimaran belge mais surtout le troisième Groupama (…)
Furtif 60’ n’est pas qu’un nom de code. La coque, longue de 18,28 mètres de long est bel et bien réelle. Grâce au soutien de Guy Crimetz qui le parraine depuis sa Mini-Transat 1999 sous les couleurs d’Ymag, Elie Canivenc est parvenu à monter son projet pour participer au prochain Vendée Globe. Tout a d’ailleurs commencé en Guadeloupe. En (…)
L’Australien Joel Parkinson, 20 ans, a remporté à Phillip Island en Australie son deuxième titre de champion du monde jeune de l’Association des Surfers Professionnels.
Overnight, Fujifilm (Peyron/Mignon) has been trying to extricate herself from a dead wind zone in between the Canary Islands (Gomera & Hierro), while Foncia (Gautier/MacArthur) has squeezed ahead of Belgacom (Nélias/Desjoyeaux) by just 10 miles, as they both curved round the archipelago to the West. These two giant ‘Expresso machines’ are (…)
Elite top 45 surfer and 1999 event winner Joel Parkinson (Aus) today reclaimed his throne by securing the 2001 Billabong World Junior Championships. Up against close friend and 2002 World Championship Tour (WCT) member elect, Mick Fanning (Aus), ’Parko’ topped off a brilliant junior career in his last eligible attempt, pocketing US$6,000 along (…)
Fujifilm « tricote » soit essaye de se sortir d’un chronique manque de vent au milieu même des îles des Canaries (Gomera et Hierro), Foncia et Belgacom glissent en faisant l’extérieur de l’archipel espagnol et Groupama s’apprête à s’arrêter à Tenerife pour remplacer son safran tribord perdu lors d’un choc survenu dès le deuxième jour de course.
Cette nuit, c’est passé par l’Ouest. A 4h00, Belgacom est en tête de la course avec 3,6 milles sur Groupama et Bonduelle pointe… 8e. Chez les monocoques, Sill Plein Fruit leader encore hier matin s’est recalé vers l’Ouest, a donc empanné et perd du terrain en route directe. Ecover, bien calé à l’Ouest, en profite et se glisse devant. Il pointe (…)