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 !
Samedi, en milieu d’après-midi, Team Vestas Wind a informé que le bateau mené par Chris Nicholson était échoué sur les hauts fonds de Saint Brandon (aussi appelé Cargados Carajos Shaols) au large de l’ile Maurice (220 milles au nord nord est de l’île Maurice).
Team Vestas Wind reported to Race Management that all nine crew have safely abandoned the boat. The life rafts are anchored to a dry section of the reef, where the crew awaits daylight.
Pour quelques jours, Camille avait interrompu ses entraînements avec Hélène Defrance pour courir le Championnat du Monde militaire de voile. Représentante de la Marine Nationale, tout comme Sophie de Turckheim, son co-skipper pour l’occasion, Camille courait sur le support dont elle est experte, le 470.
L’assemblage final du trimaran de 100 pieds de François Gabart débutera au 1er semestre 2015 pour une mise à l’eau courant de l’été 2015. D’ici là, les travaux de construction se poursuivent comme en témoignent ces images diffusées par le service de communication du sponsor.
Australian Stephanie Gilmore, 26, has claimed her 6th world surfing crown today, besting an international field of world-class athletes on the 2014 Samsung Galaxy ASP Women’s World Championship Tour.
Mardi, peu avant 14 heures, Bernard Stamm et Jean Le Cam ont largué les amarres, à Brest, pour rallier Barcelone où sera donné le départ de la 3e édition de la Barcelona World Race le 31 décembre prochain.
C’est lors de la cérémonie officielle des SUI Sailing Awards à la Maison du Sport de Berne que Dona Bertarelli a été sacrée « Female sailor of the Year 2014 » sous une ovation du public samedi dernier, le 22 novembre. Marin chevronné, que ce soit aux commandes du D35 Ladycat ou du maxi trimaran océanique Spindrift 2, Dona accumule ces dernières (…)
The 2014 RC44 Championship Tour has seen the 13-strong fleet compete in five events across three continents, with the finale played out this week on the Gulf of Oman. With no team able to discard the last event of the season, the podium positions were by no means secure as last day of racing got underway at the RC44 Oman Cup, in a sedate (…)
Dans quelques jours, le kitesurf va tenter une démonstration lors de la finale de l’ISAF world Cup à Abu Dhabi. Une vingtaine de kitesurfers de top niveau – dont le Français Maxime Nocher - vont régater sur un parcours très réduit à adapté à un show télévisé façon J.O. d’hiver.
Everyone was expecting a battle between Besson and Cammas. In the end, Morgan Lagravière took the Champion’s title of the 7th edition of the St-Barth Cata Cup with a near-perfect journey. The Marché U day ended with a friendly race to Public.