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 !
Never in the history of ocean racing has a course attracted so many Open 60ft trimarans, nor so many potential winners. The entire multihull armada and with it the skippers of the moment are all lined up along one side of the docks in Le Havre, a truly impressive sight in itself.
Jamais dans l’histoire de la voile océanique, une course n’a réuni autant de trimarans ni de vainqueurs potentiels. Les meilleurs marins du moment et toute l’armada des multicoques 60 pieds Open est ici présente et cette transatlantique nouvelle formule cache un nombre de paramètres inconnus tellement importants qu’il est difficile de (…)
The nineteen strong international fleet of 12 Open 60ft and 7 Open 50ft monohulls lined up for the start of the 5th edition of the double-handed Transat Jacques Vabre finally set off from Le Havre, France on their 4,340m race to Bahia, Brazil at 1250hrs (French time) today under a crisp blue November sky.
Les dix-neuf monocoques inscrits dans cette cinquième Transat Jacques Vabre ont bien pris le large ce samedi 3 novembre. Destination Bahia (Brésil) : 4 300 milles (près de 8 000 km) de course a avalé au menu avec pour terrains de jeu La Manche puis le vaste Atlantique, soit entre 17 et 21 jours estimés de course.
Le Néerlandais Roy Heiner quitte aujourd’hui l’équipe de ASSA ABLOY. La direction du syndicat suédois participant à la Volvo Ocean Race estime qu’il valait mieux, pour une meilleure performance de l’équipe, que Roy Heiner renonce à son rôle de skipper. C’est le Britannique Neal McDonald qui va le remplacer pour la deuxième étape.
As of today, Saturday, November 3rd, British sailor Neal McDonald (38) from Hamble, UK, will be Skipper of ASSA ABLOY, replacing Roy Heiner (NED). McDonald will join Mark Rudiger (USA) as Co-Skipper at least for Leg 2 (from Cape Town to Sydney). McDonald is recognized as one of the world’s best sailors with an impressive record in ocean (…)
Le départ de la transat Jacques Vabre a été donné à l’heure prévue devant le port du Havre. Sous un ciel bleu et un petit vent frais, les dix-neuf monocoques se sont élancés vers Salvador de Bahia au Brésil à 12h50, heure française.
Coup de zoom sur l’exceptionnelle flotte des monocoques qui prendra le départ de cette cinquième édition de la Transat Jacques Vabre, ce samedi 3 novembre, de la ville du Havre. Douze monocoques de 60 pieds open ont répondu présents épaulés de sept unités de 50 pieds : la lutte s’annonce des plus prometteuses et il est des plus difficiles de (…)
The Transat Jacques Vabre has more than one victor, as there is more than one class, and so it’s time to zoom in on the monohull fleet, which will start from Le Havre at 1250hrs French time, destination Bahia, Brazil. Twelve Open 60’s will be joined by 7 Open 50’s : this 5th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre will be one of the most (…)