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 !
Alors que son objectif de gagner la 45e édition de La Solitaire du Figaro-Eric Bompard cachemire s’est écroulé sur la premier étape suite à son démâtage au pied de Wolf Rock, Yann Eliès repartait de Plymouth avec une grosse envie de remporter cette deuxième manche.
The J80 Interface Concept rounded off this 2014 edition of Normandy Sailing Week in style, a performance matched by Groupama in the M34 category. CVSAE 2 took the top step of the podium in the First Class 7.5. Dunkerque Plaisance in IRC 1 and 2 and Pinguin Playboy in IRC 3 and 4 both came off victorious too in what proved to be a constant (…)
Le M34 Groupama a terminé en beauté l’édition 2014 de la semaine de la voile normande tout comme le J80 Interface Concept. CVSAE 2 monte sur la plus haute marche du podium en First Class 7.5. Dunkerque Plaisance en IRC 1-2 et Pinguin Playboy en IRC 3-4 sortent en vainqueurs d’une lutte de tous les instants.
The Spanish-American duo won the race in a time of 14 days 2 hours 44 minutes and 30 seconds. However looking at how tired they were and the relentless events that unfolded for them over the last fortnight, one might have got the impression they had been at sea racing non-stop for a month or more.
La paire Américano-Espagnole a remporté la course en 14 jours 2 heures 44 minutes et 30 secondes. Cependant, à en juger par leurs mines éreintées et les épreuves incessantes auxquelles ils ont dû faire face au cours de ces deux semaines, on aurait pu penser que la course avait duré un mois voire plus.
Cette 76e édition du Bol d’Or Mirabaud, courue par une bise soutenue et sous un soleil radieux, a permis à Laydcat powered by Spindrift de marquer cette course de son empreinte. Dona Bertarelli et son équipage ont fait preuve d’une parfaite maitrise technique tout au long de la régate (…)
1 day, 5 hours, 58 minutes were not enough to Giancarlo Pedote and Prysmian to beat the record marked last year, but were sufficient to give Giancarlo the fourth victory of the year.
Bellissima victoire du skipper italien Giancarlo Pedote (Prysmian) sur ce Trophée Marie-Agnès Péron. Une de plus ! En quatre courses, le marin transalpin a aligné quatre victoires, dont deux sur des épreuves comptant pour le Championnat de France Promotion Course au Large en Solitaire. Une demi-heure derrière le Magnum, c’est le Maximum, le (…)
Youssef Akrout, régatier tunisien, embarquera, cet été, à bord d’un Laser, afin de rallier, pour la première fois, la Tunisie (au départ de Bizerte) à l’Europe (Marsala en Italie) en passant par le détroit de Sicile. Une première dans ce domaine sportif où la majeure partie des traversées de ce type prend son départ en Europe ; une première (…)
Le final de cette première étape de La Solitaire du Figaro-Eric Bompard cachemire a été haletant jusqu’au brise-lames de Plymouth puisqu’ils étaient au moins cinq à espérer conclure sur la plus haute marche du podium dès ce mercredi midi, au milieu de la Manche. Mais c’est en se démarquant légèrement vers l’Est dès la bouée de Roscoff qu’Alexis (…)