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 groupe HBF - au travers de sa marque Otio - et Bastide Médical s’allient aux côtés de Kito de Pavant pour disputer La Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe dont le départ sera donné le 2 novembre de Saint-Malo. Ces deux ‘Partenaires titres’ donnent ainsi leur nom au Class 40’ (monocoque de 12,19m) que le skipper vient de prendre en main à (…)
Deux médailles d’or à Tavira ! Tout juste titrés champions du Monde de SL16, Louis Flament et Charles Dorange enfoncent le clou et remportent l’or au championnat du Monde ISAF Jeunes avec 7 victoires sur 13 courses courues.
Racing at the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship in Tavira, Portugal came to a thrilling conclusion as the medals across the eight events were decided. For the first time in their history the Spanish team have won the ISAF Youth Worlds Nations Trophy after a controlling display. Across the eight fleets Spanish sailors picked up three (…)
Hugo Lavayssière et Joris Cocaud ont réalisé une traversée la Manche en catamaran de sport dimanche 13 juillet 2014 ! En 07h11mn, ils ont rallié Roscoff, après un départ de Plymouth à 9h49. S’ils n’ont pas battu le record de Defert et Durand, ils ont réalisé une belle performance qu’ils nous racontent.
Iker Martínez will again be leading the Spanish challenge for the Volvo Ocean Race in 2014-15, his team confirmed today. The 37-year-old Basque sailor, who has just been crowned European champion in the Nacra 17 multihull class, is looking forward to his second campaign as a skipper following the Team Telefónica entry in 2011-12.
Iker Martinez mènera une nouvelle fois le Team Espagnol pour la Volvo Ocean Race. Le marin basque de 37 ans qui vient tout juste d’être sacré champion d’Europe de Nacra 17, s’engage dans sa deuxième campagne sur la Volvo Ocean Race en tant que skipper après avoir mené Telefonica en 2011-12.
The podium may have looked settled even if the positions had not been agreed with 3 races to go. Belfast Lough offered a minefield today for the competitors to make their way through in light variable wind, and unfortunately the young Americans were the first to falter.
Le soleil a fini par s’imposer sur cette nouvelle édition de la Grand Large et les 15 nœuds de Nord-Nord-Ouest ont comblé les 69 bateaux engagés. Du Bélouga en passant par France 1, mythique 12MJI du Baron Bich au VOLVO OCEAN 65 Dongfeng Race Team, les Yachts Classiques rassemblés par l’association des "Marguerites", la flotte était magnifique.
The departure from Quai Louis II of the giant 30m PlanetSolar catamaran with 512m2 of photovoltaic panels signalled the end of the Solar1 Monte-Carlo Cup, the first race for boats powered by the sun on the open sea in the Mediterranean.
C’est avec le départ du quai Louis II de PlanetSolar le catamaran géant de 30 m et ses 512 m2 de panneaux photovoltaïques, que s’achève la Solar1 Monte-Carlo Cup, la première course de bateaux propulsés uniquement à l’énergie solaire en pleine mer Méditerranée.