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 !
Le Nantais, Billy Besson et la Brestoise, Marie Riou, ont survolé le Championnat depuis le début, ce lundi 15 septembre. Ils ont 34 points d’avance sur leurs adversaires ce soir au classement avant jury. Il ne leur en fallait que 20 ! Déjà Champions du Monde en 2013, ils remportent ainsi leur deuxième titre d’affilée. Il leur faudra participer (…)
Samantha Davies, la plus française des anglaises, sera bien skipper de l’équipage 100% féminin. A tout juste 40 ans, elle s’apprête à s’élancer pour la quatrième fois sur un tour du monde après la tentative de Trophée Jules Verne en 1998 (sur Royal & Sun Alliance, équipage féminin mené par Tracy Edwards), son Vendée Globe 2008-09 (4e) et (…)
Deux médailles d’or ! La journée de vendredi a débuté de la meilleure des manières pour l’Équipe de France de Voile Olympique : le Nantais Julien Bontemps, Vice-Champion d’Europe, a remporté le titre mondial en RS : X hommes. Thomas Goyard, quant à lui, a pris la médaille de bronze. Jeudi, Charline Picon avait, quant à elle, assuré le titre (…)
Equipier de réserve sur la dernière Volvo Ocean Race dans le team lorientais de Franck Cammas, Seb Marsset n’avait pu embarquer à bord du bateau victorieux du dernière tour du monde à la voile en équipage avec escales. Deux ans plus tard, il a re-signé pour un tour du monde, mais cette fois-ci, en tant que navigant !
He’s had to wait two long years but French sailor Seb Marsset finally got the news he was waiting for with a call-up to the Team Alvimedica race crew for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 first leg on Thursday.
Swiss skipper Simon Koster who finished the Mini-Transat 2013 at the 3rd place in the serie division will be back in the solo transatlantic in 2015. He has chosen a new yacht designer and is beginning the building of a new proto 650. He explains his choice.
Simon Koster, 3e de la Mini-Transat 2013 en série, compte être présent de nouveau sur la ligne de départ de l’édition 2015. Mais cette fois-ci, il devrait s’engager pour une victoire au scratch. Il entame donc la construction d’un nouveau prototype signé Olivier Mousselon. Le Suisse nous explique son choix.
Les six équipes inscrites pour la 35e Coupe de l’America se sont mises d’accord. Les catamarans de 45 pieds qui disputent les America’s Cup World Series (ACWS) vont tous être équipés de foils à l’instant de leur grand frères, les AC72 de la 34e Cup.
The six America’s Cup teams have agreed to a project that will see the existing fleet of AC45 catamarans modified into fully foiling catamarans for racing in the America’s Cup World Series (ACWS).
En fin de semaine dernière, Servane Escoffier, skipper de l’écurie malouine BG RACE annonçait son forfait pour la Route du Rhum, Destination Guadeloupe pour raison médicale. Son projet, lui, continue. Le 2 novembre prochain à Saint-Malo, c’est Bob Escoffier, son père, qui s’élancera à la barre de son Sydney 60, le monocoque de 18,28 mètres.