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 !
During the weekend of the 10th Route du Rhum start, the 2010 edition winner Franck Cammas joined the Phantom Sailing Team for a flying session in front of Saint Malo with the Flying Phantom. It was a good opportunity for the French skipper, to test the production version of the Flying Phantom as he collaborated to the development of the R&D (…)
A little over 10% of the fleet has now safely arrived at the finish of La Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. The Ultime boats have had their moment of glory and are now neatly moored up in the marina in Pointe à Pitre. As for the sailors, they are recuperating in their hotels and running through how the race went with journalists.
Yann Eliès a franchi la ligne d’arrivée de la 10e Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe mardi 11 novembre à 19 h 48 mn 15 s. Le skipper de Paprec Recyclage a mis 9 jours 5 heures 48 minutes et 15 secondes pour boucler le parcours de 3 542 milles à la vitesse moyenne de 15,97 nœuds. Il a parcouru en réalité 4 538 milles à 20,46 nœuds de (…)
Le Bret’s Funboard Tour AFF 2014 s’est achevé à Carnac mardi 11 novembre par une ultime épreuve. Une Longue Distance, raccourcie pour cause d’aléas météorologiques mais toute aussi forte en sensations.
On crossing the finish line of the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe in third position, on Tuesday 11 November at 03:47:09 GMT, Sébastien Josse has entered the major league in terms of epic multihull sailors. At the helm of the Multi70 Edmond de Rothschild, a 21-metre trimaran initially designed to be sailed in crewed configuration, he (…)
Après avoir parcouru 4446 milles nautiques à 21,05 nœuds de moyenne en mode commando à travers l’Océan Atlantique, Sidney Gavignet, skipper du MOD70 aux couleurs du Ministère du Tourisme du Sultanat d’Oman, a coupé la ligne d’arrivée de la légendaire Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe à Pointe à Pitre, à 09:15:24 CET le 11 novembre 2014 en (…)
Ce mardi 11 novembre à 07h44 heure de Paris, Lionel Lemonchois a franchi la ligne d’arrivée de la 10e Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, bouclant ainsi les 3 542 milles du parcours en 8 jours 17 heures 44 minutes et 50 secondes, à la vitesse moyenne de 16,89 nœuds.
Le Bret’s Funboard Tour AFF 2014 a offert un final de rêve lundi 10 novembre à Carnac. Si Delphine Cousin et Antoine Questel ont régné à Carnac, Estelle Barre et Pierre Mortefon sont les nouveaux champions nationaux.
Ce mardi 11 novembre à 04h 47mn et 09s Sébastien Josse a franchi la ligne d’arrivée de la 10e Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. Le skipper d’Edmond de Rothschild a mis 8 jours 14 heures 47 minutes et 9 secondes pour boucler le parcours théorique de 3 542 milles à la vitesse moyenne de 17,13 nœuds. Il a réellement parcouru 4 403 milles à la (…)
When he crossed the finish line off Pointe-a-Pitre Guadeloupe at 18:18:46 hrs UTC/19:18:46 CET/14:18:46 hrs local time this Monday 10th November, Yann Guichard, solo skipper of the world’s biggest racing trimaran Spindrift 2, finished in second place in the 10th edition of La Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. He took 8d 5h 18mn 46sec at an (…)