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 !
Les Français de Groupe Edmond de Rothschild se sont imposés à Mascate après 32 courses disputées en 5 jours. Leader depuis le début de l’épreuve, Pierre Pennec et ses hommes ont défendu jusqu’à la dernière manche cette première place.
It was what has become a classic Extreme Sailing Series™ finish to Act 1 at The Wave, Muscat, Oman. The all-French team of Groupe Edmond de Rothschild clinched victory in the final double points race at the end of an astonishing 32 races over 5 days.
Following the enormous interest in the double-handed, Class40 Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR), the GOR Race Organisation team can now confirm a single-handed circumnavigation for Category Zero compliant Class40’s in 2013-14. Due to the increasing frequency of serious enquiries for a solo, Class40 round-the-world race, the provisional Notice (…)
Grace à la vague d’intérêt portée à la course en double sur Class40, la Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR), Les organisateurs de la GOR peuvent désormais confirmer une Circumnavigation en solitaire pour les Class40 conformes à la catégorie zéro en 2013-14. Apres une hausse des demandes pour une course autour du monde en solitaire sur Class40, la (…)
Il a fait un très long voyage d’Hawaii pour venir au Maroc, et tout spécialement à Dakhla, découvrir un pays et une culture qu’il ne connaît pas. A tout juste 14 ans, le jeune Bernd Roedinger a déjà inscrit son nom en haut de la scène windsurf internationale.
The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover is just a few short days away from commencing and the opening event of the season will be headlined by none other than reigning 10-time ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA), 39.
The iconic natural-footer utilized the off-season to recharge in his adopted homes of Hawaii and California, (…)
A 43 ans, Brad Van Liew a franchi le Cap Horn pour la troisième fois de sa carrière lundi soir à 22h30 UTC. Il entre ainsi dans l’histoire en devenant le premier Américain à cumuler trois passages en solitaire devant ce cap mythique.
VELUX 5 OCEANS skipper Brad Van Liew has sailed into the history books rounding the iconic Cape Horn solo for a third time. The 43-year-old veteran ocean racer is the only American ever to race round the notorious landmark singlehanded three times.
Ce week-end, au chantier Décision près de Lausanne, les membres de Cap Aventure (une association lancée en 1995 pour soutenir son programme en mini 650) étaient invités à découvrir le nouveau bateau de Bernard Stamm. Près de 500 personnes ont été reçues par le skipper et l’équipe qu’il a constituée autour de son projet.
Le navigateur breton Bertrand Delesne, recordman de la meilleure distance parcourue en Mini 6.50 sur 24 heures avec 304,9 milles, dernier vainqueur des Sables – Les Açores, a pour objectif de se présenter le 25 septembre prochain au départ de sa troisième Transat 6.50 Charente-Maritime / Bahia, avec sur le dos une indiscutable étiquette de favori.