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 !
Bernie Chin and Samantha Yom made it double gold for Singapore as they took the Boy’s and Girl’s Byte CII Youth Olympic Games titles in Nanjing, China. Argentina’s Francisco Saubidet Birkner and China’s Linli Wu claimed the Boy’s and Girl’s Techno 293 honours as sailing concluded at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games in China.
Ce dimanche, Eole a joué les filles de l’air et répondu aux abonnés absents obligeant les dix équipages en lice sur le 6è Trophée Prince de Bretagne - Côtes d’Armor à ronger leur frein sur une mer d’huile. Vers midi, un léger souffle a néanmoins daigné rentrer doucement sur le plan d’eau quinocéen.
Race sponsors Sevenstar Yacht Transport have also awarded Jens Kellinghusen with a $20,000 voucher to ship Varuna to their selected destination worldwide, which will be used to transport Varuna to Malta to take part in the Rolex Middle Sea Race, the final race of the RORC Season’s Points Championship.
Le surf français est né à Biarritz et, fort logiquement, la Fédération Française de Surf est elle aussi née à Biarritz. Ce mercredi 20 août 2014, date anniversaire, la Ville de Biarritz et la Fédération Française de Surf s’associent pour souffler, ensemble, les 50 bougies de l’institution à la Côte des Basques, là où tout a démarré en 1964.
Vous l’avez remarquez, si vous êtes - ou pas - pratiquant, les kitesurfers ont l’instinct plutôt grégaire. Ils jouent souvent tous ensemble dans le même bac à mer, non loin du sable (ou de l’herbe pour les kiteux d’intérieur). Cela fait le spectacle, mais pourquoi donc naviguent-ils ainsi tous ensembles alors qu’ils ne régatent pas ?
Le Biarrot Jonathan Despergers a terminé à la deuxième place des championnats du monde de bodysurf, disputés à Oceanside, Californie, ce dimanche. Après le titre de Fred David (2012) et la médaille d’argent de Paul Grieumard (2013), une nouvelle médaille vient récompenser le talent et le travail du bodysurf français.
Artemis-Team Endeavour, skippered by Brian Thompson, crossed the finish line of the 2014 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race off the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes at 23.00.54 BST on Saturday 16th August 2014 with an elapsed time of 5 days, 14 hours, 00 minutes and 54 seconds, setting a new World Record for Monohulls 60 feet and less (subject (…)
Le Volvo Ocean 65, le monotype de la prochaine édition de la Volvo Ocean Race est né, et bien né. C’est cette nuit, peu avant minuit qu’Abu Dhabi Racing a terminé en tête le Tour des Iles Britanniques et Ian Walker et ses hommes ont réalisé une sacrée performance. Ils gagnent la course bien sûr mais ils explosent, au passage, de 32 heures le (…)
Equiper 200 tortues marines de l’océan Indien de balises Argos, c’est le défi que tentent de relever depuis 2007 et jusqu’en 2015, les chercheurs de la station Ifremer de La Réunion avec leurs collègues de Kélonia, l’Observatoire des Tortues Marines.
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s Volvo Ocean 65, Azzam, skippered by Ian Walker, crossed the finish line of the 2014 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race off the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes at 22.20.28 BST on Friday 15th August 2014 with an elapsed time of 4 days, 13 hours, 10 minutes, 28 seconds, smashing the race record by over 30 hours and (…)