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 !
Un communiqué laconique annonce aujourd’hui la "cession de collaboration" entre l’écurie For Humble Heroes qui avait racheté l’excellent Groupe Bel de Kito de Pavant en vue du Vendée Globe 2016 avec le skipper Armel Tripon. L’équipe annonce chercher des partenaires mais pas de nouveau skipper... Que faut-il comprendre ?
Une troisième place lors de la dernière étape aura suffit à Sidney Gavignet et à son équipage composé de marins Omanais et Européens pour se voir couronnés vainqueurs de l’EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour pour la deuxième année d’affilée.
The victory gives the 2014-15 edition its fourth winner in four legs following successes for Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (Ian Walker/GBR), Team Brunel (Bouwe Bekking/NED), and Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA).
Le Projet catamaran class-c « RAFALE » a vu le jour en automne 2013 à Montréal, démarré par des étudiants de l’École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) . C’est un projet colossal de deux ans qui a pour objectif de concevoir et construire un catamaran pour prendre part au prochain championnat du monde de catamaran class-c, qui se déroulera à Genève (…)
Ce n’est pas encore cette année que le skipper Groupama passera moins de 320 jours sur l’eau avec au programme une préparation olympique, les América’s Cup World Series, le Tour de France à la Voile et la Petite Coupe de l’America.
A une semaine de la mise à l’eau de son nouveau monocoque, Safran dévoile les couleurs de l’IMOCA dernière génération. Tout de gris et de turquoise, Safran sera mis à l’eau le 4 mars et baptisé le samedi 7 mars à Lorient.
Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD 70, Phaedo3 crossed the finish line of the 7th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 at 20:35:30 AST on 24th February 2015 in an elapsed time of 1 day, 9 hours, 35 minutes and 30 seconds
Cheminées Poujoulat, which has lead the two handed round the world race for 39 days, has passed Cape Horn (67°15 11 W) at 01:00 UTC (02:00 Barcelona time, 22:00 Chilean time).
Aux commandes de la Barcelona World Race depuis 39 jours, Cheminées Poujoulat a contourné le cap Horn (67°15 11 W) à 01:00 TU (02:00 heure française, 22:00 heure chilienne). Le Suisse Bernard Stamm et le Français Jean Le Cam ont ainsi achevé leur traversée des mers hostiles du grand Sud autour de l’Antarctique pour débuter leur remontée de (…)