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 !
It is full of hulls in Lorient , named "Lorient ’ Geles" by some people here so proud to live in Lorient… One who are happy to live here are the offshore racing skippers and shore teams.
After Australia and New Zealand, the ASP Women’s Tour travels to a new continent for the Billabong Pro in Rio. After a disappointing 13th place in Sydney, Pauline Ado (FRA) had to focus on the 5th event of a season counting only 7 contests this year.
Après l’Australie et le Nouvelle-Zélande, l’ASP Women’s Tour se déplace vers une nouveau continent à l’occasion du Billabong Pro Rio. Après une décevante 13e place en Nouvelle Zélande, Pauline Ado (FRA) devait se ressaisir lors de la 5e étape d’un circuit mondial qui ne compte que 7 compétitions cette année.
A new chapter of their green revolution was completed on the fierce blue waters of the Atlantic off Cascais, Portugal when Quantum Racing and Iberdrola won the Cascais Trophy for the TP52 and the Soto 40 series respectively, the opening event of the 2011 Audi MedCup Circuit.
Les Américains ont très largement dominé en TP-52 le premier rendez-vous de l’Audi MedCup, tout comme les Espagnols dans la série monotype des Soto-40. Du vent fort, une mer agitée, des courants de marée importants, du soleil pour finir, le Trophée de Cascais a privilégié l’expérience et la réactivité tactique.
Bjorn Dunkerbeck sails to an emphatic victory on Korea’s notoriously challenging East Sea proving ground, while Valerie Arrighetti defies injury to triumph in the face of adversity and vanquish her rivals en route to a symbolic event win.
C’est à Ulsan en Corée du Sud que se sont retrouvés les meilleurs funboardeurs internationaux cette semaine pour s’attaquer à la 2e épreuve de slalom du circuit PWA (Coupe du Monde de Windsurf réservé aux professionnels).
Ils seront une quinzaine d’équipages à prendre le départ du Tour de France à la Voile 2011. Les fidèles sont toujours là et découvrent le M34 mais l’arrivée du nouveau monotype a aussi attiré des marins talentueux issus notamment de la filière solitaire.
UK champion Pica team of Jamie Mears, Tristan Hutt and Stewart Mears scored a convincing victory in the Dockyard 18ft Skiff Grand Prix 1 Hungary, which was sailed at Lake Balaton.