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 !
Alors que tous s’attendaient à un duel de la dernière heure entre Besson et Cammas, c’est Morgan Lagravière qui a ravi le titre de Champion de la 7e édition de la St-Barth Cata Cup avec un parcours presque parfait.La journée Marché U s’est conclue avec une course amicale amenant les participants à Public.
Aujourd’hui s’est achevée la dernière étape de Coupe du Monde de Funboard, à Nouméa. Les deux membres de l’Équipe de France, Antoine Albeau et Delphine Cousin, ont été sacrés Champion du Monde dans leur catégorie respective. Le retour de l’épreuve en Nouvelle Calédonie, vingt ans après, a tenu toutes ses promesses et a souri aux français (…)
The last day of the Airwaves Noumea Dream Cup PWA saw a grandstand finale to the 2014 PWA World Tour as the morning showers finally cleared to allow the wind to fill in and the respective titles to be decided. With the racing beginning later than scheduled the title race came down to one final race, which would ultimately decide the title, so (…)
Ce 22 novembre à 21 heures 52 minutes et 22 secondes, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston a franchi la ligne d’arrivée à Pointe-à-Pitre de la dixième Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe. Le skipper de Grey Power a mis 20 jours 07 heures 52 minutes et 22 secondes pour boucler le parcours de 3 542 milles à la vitesse moyenne de 7,26 nœuds. Il a parcouru (…)
British adventurer and Clipper Race Founder Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, 75, has finished solo Transatlantic race the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe in third place in the Rhum class. Sir Robin crossed the finish line on his Open 60 Grey Power at Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, at 4.52pm local time/8.52pm GMT Saturday after 20 days, 7 hours, 52 (…)
Juliette Pêtrès a franchit la ligne d’arrivée de la 10e Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe en 19e position de la Class’40 ce samedi 22 novembre à 13h52 (heure de la métropole). A bord de son monocoque de 40 pieds "Eau et Patrimoine", la jeune femme fatiguée mais heureuse salue ses amis et partenaires venus nombreux l’acceuillir à (…)
At 4:26 42 seconds AM on Friday 21 November, Giancarlo Pedote has crossed the finish line of the 10° Route du Rhum onboard the Class 40 Fantastica by Lanfranco Cirillo.
18 days, 14 hours, 26 minutes and 43 seconds for a tenth position that has passionate for the numerous vicissitudes :
Les doubles Champions du Monde de Nacra 17 – nouveau catamaran olympique mixte –, Billy Besson et Marie Riou, ont été reçus vendredi 7 novembre à l’État Major des Armées à Paris. C’est au cœur de ce lieu très prestigieux et central de l’Armée Française, qu’ils se sont engagés auprès de la Marine Nationale.
British solo sailor Miranda Merron crossed the finish line of the 3542 miles La Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo Transatlantic race off Pointe-a-Pitre this Thursday afternoon at 16:17:25hrs UTC 12:17:25hrs local time in seventh place from a Class 40 field of 43 starters.
Miranda Merron termine à la sixième place en Class40 en 18j 03h 17’ 25 à la moyenne de 9,99 nœuds sur les 4 347 milles qu’elle a parcouru depuis Saint-Malo.