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 !
Marc Lacomare (FRA), 20, marched to victory at the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships over American talent Nat Young (USA), 19, in a hard-fought chess match between the two goofy-footers in two-to-three foot (1 metre) surf at North Narrabeen to solidify Jack Freestone (AUS), 18, as the 2010 ASP World Junior Champion.
L’Australien Nathan Outteridge vient de remporter sur le lac Macquarie en Australie, le championnat du monde Moth à foils. Il avait débuté la dernière journée de compétition avec une avance de 100 points sur l’Aussie Joe Turner et, en jouant la sécurité, il a pu concrétiser son titre mondial.
Hugs and Champagne welcome the newest Moth World Champion Nathan Outteridge (AUS) to his home shores in Lake Macquarie, Australia. Entering the day with an 11-point lead over 2nd place fellow Aussie Joe Turner, Outteridge sailed a conservative 4-races to closeout a winning series.
Barcelona World Race leaders Jean-Pierre Dick and Loïck Peyron are preparing to make a technical stop in Brasil to make a repair to their main sheet track on Virbac-Paprec 3.
For the third consecutive year, Baron Benjamin de Rothschild and the Financial Group he presides over, are continuing their involvement with the Extreme Sailing Series by entering a one design in the colours of the Edmond de Rothschild Group. Ranking among the major protagonists in this now global circuit, the men of Gitana Team will this year (…)
Coup dur pour le leader de la Barcelona World Race. Jean-Pierre Dick vient d’appeler son équipe pour l’informer que le rail du chariot de grand-voile s’était arraché du pont sur 2m50.
Pour la troisième année consécutive, le Baron Benjamin de Rothschild et le groupe financier qu’il préside poursuivent leur engagement sur le circuit des Extreme Sailing Series en y alignant un monotype aux couleurs du Groupe Edmond de Rothschild. Pour Pierre Pennec, le nouveau barreur et skipper du monotype Gitana, et ses trois équipiers, la (…)
Alex Thomson has made the decision to remain in England to be able to closely monitor the progress of his infant son Oscar who was diagnosed with a heart condition called coarctation of the aorta.
Ce matin, Oscar, le nouveau-né d’Alex Thomson, a subi de nouveaux examens médicaux en Angleterre. À l’heure actuelle, son état de santé s’est stabilisé. Alex et sa compagne ont été prévenus qu’une surveillance particulière était nécessaire pour leur fils dans les semaines à venir. Oscar est né le 7 janvier. Quelques jours plus tard, un problème (…)
Friday 14 January, Michel Desjoyeaux and François Gabart are likely to make for the quays of Recife or a neighbouring port to replace the sacrificial bow of their boat. The logistics for this technical pit stop are currently being set in motion. The work on site could take twenty hours or so. This amount of time will unfortunately be necessary (…)