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 !
Two years ago SCA announced it would enter a boat into the Volvo Ocean Race. They then took another bold move when they decided to enter the race with an all-female team. It’s not the first all-female crew in the history of the race, but this is the first time an all-female team will receive the same support as their male competition - from (…)
The featherweight trimaran Morticia fought above its weight to claim a surprise victory against much bigger and more powerful rivals in the Festival of Sails’ Melbourne to Geelong passage race today, Friday 24th January, 2014.
Premier contrat rempli pour Thomas Coville qui a coupé la frontière virtuelle entre les deux hémisphères cette nuit à 4h01’50’’ (heure française). Comme le visait le skipper qui s’attaque au record du tour du monde en solitaire, Sodebo passe sous les 7 jours pour cette première partie du parcours.
Le rideau est tombé sur la saison 2013 du skipper Maître CoQ, une saison menée tambour battant sur deux fronts : la Solitaire du Figaro et la Transat Jacques Vabre. Dans les deux cas, Jérémie Beyou a relevé deux défis de taille (revenir sur le très exigeant circuit Figaro Bénéteau et prendre en main, en trois mois seulement, son nouvel Imoca (…)
La Copa 2013, tournoi de voile en Mini Ji, s’est déroulée à la Trinité-sur-Mer les 20,21 et 22 Décembre. Les finalistes sont Jean-Pierre Nicol, Julien Villion, Corentin Horeau, et le grand vainqueur : Quentin Delapierre !
Quatorze ans après la pollution de l’Erika, les plages du Finistère Sud et du Morbihan ont reçu leur dose de déchets. Cette année, nulle trace de pétrole mais des seringues par milliers !
Avec 150 marins sur l’eau, Monaco était bel et bien « The place to be » ce week-end, avec deux régates internationales disputées : la Monaco Optimist Team Race, organisée en collaboration avec FxPro et Eventica Communications, les Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series (acte 3), un programme hivernal dédié aux monotypes de course au large, qui réunit (…)
Grâce à un article paru dans Le Télégramme, on en sait un peu plus sur l’imbroglio du début du tour du monde en catamaran de sport d’Yvan Bourgnon. Après 3 premières étapes jusqu’aux Canaries, son équipier, Vincent Beauvarlet, avait abandonné l’aventure (comme le sponsor). Mais cela n’a pas empêché le cadet des Bourgnon de poursuivre et réussir (…)
A 14 heures 52 minutes et 40 secondes, dans un vent de sud-ouest soufflant entre 13 et 15 noeuds, le Maxi80 Prince de Bretagne et Lionel Lemonchois ont franchi la ligne de départ du record de la Mauricienne, ralliant Port-Louis en rade de Lorient et Port-Louis dans l’archipel des Mascareignes. Pour faire tomber le chrono établi par Francis (…)
Avec un vent de Sud-Sud Ouest de 15 à 20 nœuds et une forte houle à Ouessant, Thomas Coville a franchi la ligne de départ du record du tour du monde en solitaire en multicoque ce matin à 7h42’44’’ (heure française). Pour battre le record de 57 jours, 13 heures, 34 minutes et 6 secondes, détenu par Francis Joyon depuis 2008, le maxi-trimaran (…)