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 !
With snow on the mountains and a sunny breezy day on the coast, the Primo Cup launched by HSH Prince Albert II when he first became the Yacht Club de Monaco’s President 31 years ago, more than lived up to its reputation and charm.
De la neige sur les sommets et des bateaux dans la brise sous un soleil quasi printanier…, le charme de la Primo Cup – Trophée Credit Suisse, initiée il y a 31 ans par S.A.S. le Prince Albert II, dès son arrivée à la présidence du Y.C.M., a encore opéré cette année.
Les double médaillés d’or olympique Roman Hagara et Hans Peter Steinacher ont mené Red Bull Sailing Team à la victoire dans l’Act d’ouverture de la saison 2015 des Extreme Sailing SeriesTM et gagnent les honneurs sur le plan d’eau de Marina Bay après 32 manches très disputées devant la foule des spectateurs de Singapour. L’équipe (…)
Double Olympic gold medallists Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher and their team on Red Bull Sailing Team have won the opening Act of the 2015 Extreme Sailing Series™, soaking up the pressure of expectation in front of the crowds in Singapore to become kings of Marina Bay after 32 hard fought races. The team from Austria had the points (…)
Le JPK 10.10 ’’Leclerc Hennebont’’ a passé la ligne d’arrivée, dans le prolongement de l’estacade du club Med de Ste-Anne, à 16 h 09 Heure locale. Epuisés mais ravis les deux compères, en savourant le premier ti-punch, offert par Lucie ont dit leur joie de toucher le port en vainqueurs.
La nouvelle a pris tout le monde de court. L’International Paralympic Committee (équivalent du CIO) a annoncé en début de semaine que la voile ne serait pas présente aux Jeux Paralympiques de Tokyo 2020. Si rien n’est fait, l’olympiade actuelle est donc la dernière pour les trois supports de voile paralympique que sont le 2.4, le Sonar et le Skud.
Leaders Cheminées Poujoulat have passed the second ‘Great Cape’ in the Barcelona World Race. Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam crossed the longitude of Cape Leeuwin, around 600 miles south of the tip of south-western Australia, at 1525hrs (UTC), 37 days, 3 hours and 25 minutes after setting sail from Barcelona.
Une nouvelle étape symbolique du tour du monde a été franchie. Quelque 37 jours 3 heures et 35 minutes après avoir quitté Barcelone, Cheminées Poujoulat a doublé cet après-midi (15H25 TU) le cap Leeuwin, toujours en tête de la flotte de la Barcelona World Race. Bernard Stamm et Jean Le Cam n’en ont pas encore fini encore avec l’océan Indien, la (…)
Le 19 septembre prochain, Henri Marcelet prendra le départ de la Mini Transat, traversée de l’Atlantique en solitaire et sans assistance, entre Douarnenez et Pointe-à-Pitre via Lanzarote aux Canaries. Le jeune nordiste, originaire du Pas-de-Calais, a pris la suite de son frère, Julien, à bord du voilier « Hissons les Voiles en Nord-Pas-de-Calais ».