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 !
Peter Burling (NZL), who turned 24 on January 1, leaves Sorrento tonight with the McDougall + McConaghy 2015 International Moth World Championship title, hosted by the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club (SSCBC) in Victoria.
A peine tournée la page triomphale de la Route du Rhum, tout le Team Banque Populaire derrière son skipper Armel Le Cléac’h entame en ce début d’année 2015 la phase finale de la construction du Monocoque IMOCA Banque Populaire VIII. Ce plan VPLP Verdier rempli d’innovations a été conçu dans l’objectif de permettre à Armel de monter sur la plus (…)
Alex Thomson and Pepe Ribes, skippers of the IMOCA 60 HUGO BOSS, which was leading the Barcelona World Race, this evening lost their mast overboard at 21.02 GMT. The yacht was reaching in moderate conditions when there is reported to have been a rigging failure and the mast fell overboard and broke.
Le Britannique Alex Thomson, 40 ans, et l’Espagnol Pepe Ribes, 43 ans, ont démâté hier soir à 21h02 GMT, à bord du monocoque de 60 pieds IMOCA Hugo Boss qui menait la flotte de la Barcelona World Race au 14è jour de course. Le duo naviguait au reaching dans des conditions modérées, à 370 milles au large des côtes brésiliennes, lorsque un (…)
Lead by Hugo Boss at 0150hrs UTC this Monday morning, four IMOCA 60s of the Barcelona World Race fleet are now racing south in the Southern Hemisphere after crossing the equator in relatively quick succession.
Le début de la Barcelona World Race s’est couru en un tempo rapide. Les quatre bateaux partisans de l’ouest ont franchi l’équateur la nuit dernière, toujours en rangs serrés et en moins de douze jours. Les 24 heures gagnées sur le temps de référence établi lors de la dernière édition pourrait s’effacer dans l’hémisphère sud. A l’est, point de (…)
Beaucoup d’émotions vendredi 09 Janvier à bord du bateau accompagnateur... L’exploit inédit vient d’être atteint. Cap ô pas Cap est le premier projet sur une installation si petite, avec les mains dans l’eau, à passer le mythique Cap Horn. Mission accomplie pour Alexandra Lux, Stéphanie Geyer-Barneix et Itziar Abascal.
Pour ma première session de kitesurf en 2015, j’ai pu profiter du plan d’eau de Gâvres, à l’Est de Lorient, en solitaire. Personne sur zone à part les bernaches et un pote à qui j’ai confié mon appareil photo pour quelques images dans la grisaille.
Alex Thomson (GBR) and Pepe Ribes (ESP) on Hugo Boss have passed Gibraltar, crossing the Longitude 5°37W at 18H50 (CET). They have set a new record time for the Barcelona to Gibraltar course of 538 nautical miles of 2 days, 5 hours, 50 minutes.
En franchissant à 18h50 (GMT + 1) le méridien 5°37W qui marque la longitude de Tarifa, à la sortie du détroit de Gibraltar, l’équipage de Hugo Boss, inscrit un nouveau temps de référence entre Barcelone et le détroit de Gibraltar.