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 !
A quelques jours du départ vers Auckland, Charles Caudrelier, skipper de Dongfeng Race Team, fait le point sur l’étape à venir, sur son nouveau statut de leader ainsi que sur les changements au sein de l’équipage franco-chinois. Rencontre.
Voici la vidéo de présentation de Dynamique Voile, une jeune équipe basée aux Sables d’Olonne qui se prépare pour le Tour de France à la Voile 2015. Cette équipe est composée d’Emeric Dary, Thomas Cardin et Romain Bellet.
Pour ce premier volet de la 31e Primo Cup – Trophée Credit Suisse, qui a accueilli 92 concurrents, représentant 13 nationalités, répartis en six classes et deux ronds de course, le système dépressionnaire installé sur le golfe de Gènes a perturbé quelque peu les concurrents et le comité de course mais la volonté et la ténacité des arbitres et (…)
L’ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami, étape de Coupe du Monde et premier test de la saison pour les Français, s’est achevée hier dans la nuit. L’Equipe de France de Voile Olympique a répondu présente lors de cette rentrée internationale en remportant deux médailles : Thomas Goyard s’est adjugé la médaille d’argent en RS :X et les équipiers Billy (…)
Think 678 sailors, 599 boats, 150 races for ten Olympic classes and three Paralympic classes. At the ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami, presented by Sunbrella, we talked of "a racecourse built out of shifts." We spoke of competitive performances that exceeded any comparison to walking a tightrope. Dancing on a tightrope would be more to the point.
Ce sont les frères Charles et Maxime Hainneville qui ont remporté le titre de Champion de la 2e édition du Martinique Cata Raid avec un parcours parfait au final d’une semaine de navigation intense marquée par ses conditions et son niveau sportif tous deux exceptionnels.
Le 22e Trophée Mer Montagne qui se déroulait pour la 2e année consécutive au Corbier au cœur du Massif des Sybelles s’est terminé ce mercredi 28 janvier avec la victoire de l’équipe François Gabart et Aurélien Ducroz associés aux jeunes Pauline Dupraz et Trévor Glet.
Initiée par la fondation Race For Water basée à Lausanne en Suisse, la « Race For Water Odyssey » (R4WO) sera lancée le 15 mars 2015 de Bordeaux (France). Cette expédition unique a pour objectif de réaliser le premier état des lieux global de la pollution des océans par les plastiques en se rendant sur les plages des îles situées dans les 5 (…)
Initiated by the Race for Water Foundation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, the “Race for Water Odyssey” (R4WO) will begin in Bordeaux (France) on March 15, 2015. The objective of this unique expedition is to conduct the first global assessment of plastic pollution in oceans by visiting island beaches situated in the 5 trash vortexes.
Dongfeng Race Team claimed a key landmark in the 41-year history of the Volvo Ocean Race on Tuesday when they emphatically won Leg 3 in their home port of Sanya to take the overall lead with six stages to go.