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 skipper italien Giancarlo Pedote (Prysmian) est le grand vainqueur, en prototype, de la Mini en Mai. Il a bouclé ce long parcours entre Ouessant et l’île de Ré (au départ et à l’arrivée de la Trinité-sur-mer) avec environ 5h d’avance sur son dauphin, Jean-Baptiste Daramy (Eki Haizea) attendu vers 21h.
The playing field is promising and the competition already kicked in, with Courrier Dunkerque 3 winning the Spi Ouest-France Intermarché a point ahead of Groupama 34, and Groupama taking over Courrier Dunkerque and Oman Sail during the Grand Prix Guyader.
Le Tour de France à la Voile comptera dans ses rangs cette année deux skippers vainqueurs de la Volvo Ocean Race (Franck Cammas en 2012 et Sidney Gavignet en 2006), un double vainqueur de la Solitaire du Figaro (Nicolas Troussel) ou bien encore un double vainqueur de l’épreuve (Daniel Souben).
Eric Tabarly (1964), Alain J. Gerbault (1923) ou encore Bernard Moitessier (1966) ont été honorés par le Cruising Club of America. Hier soir, Jean-Pierre Dick a eu l’immense privilège de recevoir le « Rod Stephens Trophy 2013 » [1] par le CCA dans le cadre somptueux du Yacht Club de New York.
Un mois après son arrivée à Palm Beach, près de Miami (USA) et quelques jours en famille en Autriche, Harald Sedlacek a repris la mer le 16 mai 2014 à 16h40 UTC, direction Les Sables d’Olonne. C’est son père Norbert qui a largué le bout de remorquage devant la bouée de Palm Beach non sans émotion.
C’est sous une pluie de confettis et avec une belle émotion partagée que le trimaran Sodebo Ultim’a été mis à l’eau ce lundi à 11h30 devant le chantier Multiplast de Vannes. En partant de Geronimo - le mythique trimaran d’Olivier de Kersauson né dans le même chantier en 2001 et taillé pour les records en équipage - le team a créé une (…)
A fresh Scirocco wind blowing south east has caractarized the four Medal races in the last day of the event in Cagliari. Brasilian Wilson Veloso (Master) canadian Adam Vance (Grandmaster) from French Maxime Nocher (Youth) Swiss Astrid Berz (women master) and Russian Elena Kalinina are the new world champions Formula kite.
Vendredi matin à 7h45, Europe 1 recevait Jean Galfione, l’ex-champion olympique de saut à la perche qui prépare la Route du Rhum. Il revient sur son projet Class 40, sa sortie en mer avec Renaud Lavillénie et sa carrière d’athlète de haut niveau.
Alors que son projet IMOCA est aujourd’hui mis entre parenthèses le temps de retrouver un bateau et tous les financements nécessaires, et après avoir (re)découvert les joies de la régate à l’occasion du Grand Prix Guyader début mai à bord d’un Diam 24 One Design mis à sa disposition par le chantier ADH inotec, Bernard Stamm s’engage aujourd’hui (…)
Son palmarès est hors normes, son talent unanimement reconnu. En 2016, Pascal Bidégorry sera à coup sûr une des têtes d’affiche de l’Everest des mers. Le tour du monde en solitaire sans escale et sans assistance. Le Vendée Globe.