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 !
It’s now official : in just under three months from now, on 2nd November, Francis Joyon will be setting off on his fifth Route du Rhum between St-Malo and Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe). Currently preparing for this race, the skipper of the IDEC SPORT maxi-trimaran is not leaving anything to chance, which is understandable, given that the standard (…)
The 2014 RS Feva World Championships went off with a bang in true RS Feva style with 184 RS Fevas, 368 sailors and hundreds of parents, siblings and supporters descended on Yacht Club de Carnac, in Brittany for the 7th World Championships in 8 years.
Débuter en kitesurf - et en particulier quand on a passé les 40 ans - demande un équipement spécifique. Il y a bien entendu le matos de kite, de l’aile à la glisse, et le matos du kitesurfer, pour sa vie aquatique et sa sécurité.
Maxime Huscenot a réalisé un véritable exploit ce dimanche aux Etats-Unis. Le surfeur français, meilleur Européen en Californie, s’est hissé jusqu’en quarts de finale du Vans US Open of Surfing, compétition ultra-médiatique aux USA et troisième étape du circuit ASP Prime. Il s’agit du meilleur résultat de sa jeune carrière (23 ans), qui lui (…)
L’équipe LUNAJETS, emmenée par son leader Mathieu Richard, a réalisé une très belle performance en Pologne, se classant deuxième de la Sopot Match Race, troisième manche du World Match Racing Tour, disputée cette semaine en Pologne.
Superbe victoire du Français Pierre-Antoine Morvan qui réalise un triplé historique à l’issue d’une régate quasi-parfaite où il n’a concédé qu’un seul point sur 19 matchs courus.
L’ultime étape du Tour Duf’ Windsurf & Paddle 2014 s’est déroulée samedi à Plougasnou dans des conditions idéales. Deux courses ont été validées pour les planches à dérive et un downwind pour le Stand Up Paddle.
Jean-Pierre Kelbert et Hervé Perroud (JPK10.80 3D Développeurs Immobiliers) savourent, sur les pontons de Quinta do Lorde, leur victoire. Une première étape méritée et qui n’aurait pas été volée, non plus, pour l’équipage du Sun Fast 3600 Yolo.
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Yvan Bourgnon s’était élancé en octobre 2013 des Sables d’Olonne pour le premier tour du monde en voilier non habitable, sur son catamaran de sport d’à peine plus de 6m de long. Reparti le 12 juillet dernier de Bali pour une traversée de l’Océan Indien de quelques 2700 miles en direction des Maldives (la deuxième plus longue traversée depuis (…)