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 maxi monocoque de Bob Oatley a été le premier à franchir la ligne d’arrivée de la Rolex Sydney Hobart. Mais le 100 pieds est sous le coup d’une réclamation du comité de course. En effet, l’équipage s’est signalé par téléphone au passage de Cape Green alors qu’il devait le faire par VHF.
Bob Oatley’s champion 100-foot supermaxi Wild Oats XI has reasserted its claim as one of Australia’s greatest ocean racing yachts by being first across the Rolex Sydney Hobart finish line.
After losing two men overboard within five hours of the Rolex Sydney Hobart start yesterday afternoon, YuuZoo skipper Ludde Ingvall didn’t think things could get much worse.
Après une nuit où les équipages ont certainement eu du mal à trouver le sommeil, ce sont 87monocoques qui ont pris le départ, à 13h ce dimanche, de l’édition 2010 de la Rolex Sydney Hobart. Après une matinée pluvieuse, c’est finalement sous un ciel dégagé que les Maxis ont ouvert le bal, suivis de près par le reste de la flotte. Très (…)
The Mark Richards skippered 100 footer, Wild Oats XI, shrugged off a cheeky challenge from Grant Wharington’s Melbourne 98 footer, Wild Thing, to stamp its mark early on the Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours battle.
L’édition 2010 de la Rolex Sydney Hobart dont le départ sera donné dimanche 26 décembre aura un très fort accent australien. Face aux 82 monocoques provenant des quatre coins du pays, seuls 6 voiliers étrangers, un américain, deux britanniques, un italien, un russe et un français, tenteront de faire face à cette terrible armada pour espérer (…)
En remportant aujourd’hui le titre mondial de 470 jeunes au Qatar, Sofian Bouvet et Jérémie Mion viennent de réaliser un exploit retentissant. Ces deux jeunes gens sont champions d’Europe et champions du Monde 2009 et 2010 ! Du jamais vu dans les annales !
Il aurait été surprenant que Jean Le Cam s’aligne au départ d’une course avec toute autre ambition que de viser l’une des trois marches du podium. La Barcelona World Race dont le départ sera donné depuis la capitale catalane vendredi 31 décembre à 13 heures aiguise, à l’instar d’un Vendée Globe, l’appétit de Jean Le Cam. Le monocoque Imoca (…)
Le chantier Marée Haute de Trégunc dans le Finistère a connu un grand succès lors du salon nautique 2010. Son Django 770, la nouvelle version du plan Rolland élu bateau de l’année par le magazine Voiles Mag, a retenu l’attention de nombreux visiteurs. Le chantier en a profité pour annoncer la version Océan Race qui, elle-même, a retenu (…)
British yachtswoman, Hannah Jenner, has confirmed that her co-skipper for the double-handed, Class40, Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR) is German sailor, Anna-Maria Renken. Jenner and Renken are currently the only all-girl GOR team.