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 qu’il menait la flotte depuis Star Point, Yann Eliès (Groupe Quéguiner-Leucémie Espoir) enroulait en tête le phare de Wolf Rock lorsque son mât s’est rompu : le skipper fait maintenant route vers Falmouth au moteur… Charlie Dalin (Normandy Elite Team) et Jérémie Beyou (Maître CoQ) prenaient le commandement pour ce bord direct de 100 (…)
Si la plage de Malo-les-Bains qui paressait aujourd’hui sans la moindre risée pour agiter les vagues a fait le bonheur des amateurs de farniente, elle a réduit le comité de course du "rond" des sportsboats du Grand Prix International de la Côte D’Opale à la portion congrue d’une seule manche disputée pour cette dernière journée de régate.
Comme l’an dernier à la même époque, le Landais Joan Duru et l’Antillaise Maud Le Car ont participé à une étape de la Coupe de France (la deuxième de la saison) et se sont imposés. Ce dimanche, sur le spot des Naturistes, à Hossegor, le couple Duru-Le Car a mis le feu dans des vagues magnifiques avant de retrouver le circuit pro.
Ce dimanche à 13 heures, au large de Deauville, Yann Eliès et les 37 autres marins engagés dans la 45e édition de la Solitaire du Figaro. Le skipper de Groupe Quéguiner - Leucémie Espoir espère frapper fort d’entrée de jeu en s’adjugeant la victoire à l’issue de ce premier acte, comme cela avait été le cas en 2012 et en 2013, les années où il a (…)
Fast, foiling, wing-sailed catamarans will race in the next America’s Cup as the new class rule for the AC62 yacht has been released. The AC62 is 10 feet shorter than its predecessor, but is expected to be just as fast and challenging to race for the crews, and will produce the same heart-pounding action for spectators.
Dans des conditions idéales et plutôt ventées, Thomas Coville et son équipe partagent des heures grisantes à l’occasion des premières navigations à bord de Sodebo Ultim’ en baie de Quiberon.
C’était l’objet du 1er avril de seasailsurf.com l’an passé ("Un MOD70 à super-foils pour la Route du Rhum ?"). C’est en train de devenir réalisé avec la transformation du MOD70 du team Gitana en un Multi 70 à 4 foils.
Le Protocol de la 35e Coupe de l’America a été présenté mardi. Ce règlement définit les règles de sélection des challengers et le nouveau bateau pour les régates de l’été 2017. Elles auront lieu à bord de catamaran ailés comme l’an passé. Mais leur taille diminue (pour des questions d’économie) puisque les engins passent de 72 à 62 pieds.
The Protocol was released on Tuesday, which defines the rules, format and commercial regulations for the 35th America’s Cup. Entries open on June 9th and close August 8th, 2014, giving prospective teams two months to enter.
Initiateur de Dronautic, le journaliste et communicant breton, spécialiste du nautisme (éditeur de SESAILSURF.com), présente le concept de ces nouveaux bateaux de course au large ainsi que leur programme de compétition.