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 !
Trois jours seulement après sa participation à la Semaine Nautique Internationale de Schœlcher, le jeune Marcos Guedez, 17 ans a réalisé le Tour de Martinique en planche à voile non-stop ! Parti de l’Anse Madame à Schœlcher à 23h50 vendredi 20 février, il lui aura fallu 14h et 35 minutes seulement pour arriver au bout du défi qu’il s’est lancé.
Mardi 17 février, après 4 jours de régate, s’est terminé la 25e édition de la Semaine Nautique Internationale de Schœlcher (SNIS) dont Jocelyne Béroard était la marraine. Avec des délégations venues de Cuba, Antigua, Sainte-Lucie, Guadeloupe, Grande Bretagne, Trinidad et Tobago, Corse, Bretagne, Aquitaine, Hollande, Canada, St Barthélemy, etc…, (…)
Le 18 pieds australien Gotta Love It 7 mené par Seve Jarvin, Sam Newton et Scott Babbage a remporté l’édition 2015 du JJ Giltinan, le célèbre championnat de "18ft Skiff" avant la dernière régate disputée dans la baie de Sydney.
Gotta Love It 7’s team of Seve Jarvin, Sam Newton and Scott Babbage officially became the 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff champions after the regatta concluded on Sydney Harbour today.
Lancée en septembre dernier, la construction du futur monocoque Imoca Edmond de Rothschild se poursuit à Vannes, au sein du chantier Multiplast. Semaine après semaine, les contours du puzzle géant se dessinent. En effet, deux des pièces maitresses du bateau, que sont la coque et le pont, ont été démoulées avec succès cette semaine.
Banque Populaire réaffirme son engagement dans le sponsoring voile pour 5 années supplémentaires avec la construction du Maxi Solo Banque Populaire IX, qui sera skippé par Armel Le Cléac’h.
Un mois jour pour jour après la perte de leur voilier le VOR 70 SFS (ex Abu Dhabi lancé en 2011), entièrement détruit dans un incendie alors qu’il était en chantier, les dirigeants de SFS (Securities & Financial Solutions) et le skipper Lionel Péan annoncent l’acquisition d’un autre VOR 70, l’ex Puma skippé par l’américain Ken Read lors de (…)
Le skipper français Mathieu Richard et son équipe LUNAJETS peuvent avoir le sourire. Finalistes, le week-end dernier, de la Monsoon Cup Malaysia, ultime étape du championnat, ils se classent troisièmes du Alpari World Match Racing Tour 2014-2015. Un circuit dont ils seront les grands absents la saison prochaine, n’ayant pas réuni le budget (…)
Partis du Robert ce dimanche matin à 9h00 de la Pointe la Savane, la flotte du Tour de Martinique s’est élancée pour sa troisième et dernière étape pour boucler le Tour pour une arrivée à Fort de France.
Ian Williams (GBR) battled his way into the history books today by winning the Monsoon Cup Malaysia and taking a record 5th ISAF Match Racing World Championship in Johor Bahru.