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 !
Décembre c’est le mois du Nautic… Mais également celui des préparatifs et des coups de cœur pour la Class 6.5. En effet, certains bateaux changeant de mains, de nouveaux propriétaires et équipiers font leur arrivée. Par ailleurs, la Class6.5 programme sa saison 2011 afin de satisfaire un maximum de régatiers avec un Championnat comptant sept (…)
Après une saison 2010 exceptionnelle marquée notamment par une victoire de la France sur la Coupe du Monde, Philippe Gouard, le DTN de la Fédération Française de Voile, annonce la couleur : l’objectif des Bleu(e)s à Londres est de… 6 médailles pour 10 séries ! « C’est ambitieux mais pas prétentieux » estime celui qui, à 61 ans, mène sa (…)
On the eve of the World Yacht Racing Forum in Estoril (Portugal), the Extreme Sailing Series™ unveiled a great package of interesting and varied host venues, and top level professional sailing teams and skippers for 2011. The award-winning and ‘ISAF Special Event’ circuit is going truly global as it enters its fifth year, with 9 events (…)
La veille du World Yacht Racing Forum à Estoril au Portugal, les Extreme Sailing Series™ ont présenté un excellent package pour la saison 2011 rassemblant villes d’accueil uniques et variées et skippers et équipiers professionnels de haut-niveau.
Supermaxi Wild Oats XI took the gun in today’s SOLAS Big Boat Challenge, the fourth line honours win in this event for the Oatley family patriarch, Bob Oatley, who steered his silver-hulled 100 footer around most of the Harbour course.
Larry Ellison and his BMW ORACLE Racing crew wrapped up the 2010 RC 44 Season Championship with a second-place finish in the fleet racing portion of the ORACLE RC 44 Cup Miami.
A year ago, just days before Groupama 3 was to set sail on her second attempt to conquer the Jules Verne Trophy, Groupama announced its participation in the next two editions of the Volvo Ocean Race with Franck Cammas.
Il ya un an, à quelques jours du départ de Groupama 3 pour sa seconde tentative de conquête du Trophée Jules Verne, Groupama annonçait sa participation aux deux prochaines éditions de la Volvo Ocean Race avec Franck Cammas.
Après une Route du Rhum – La Banque Postale 2010, qui aura permis à l’ensemble de l’équipe Terrallia Voile de parfaire son organisation et d’optimiser techniquement son Class40, c’est un programme sportif ambitieux, et non des moindres, qui s’annonce pour l’année 2011.
Bruno Retailleau, Président du Conseil Général de la Vendée, a officiellement lancé la septième édition du Vendée Globe, lors d’une conférence de presse organisée ce mercredi au Salon Nautique de Paris. Le Vendée Globe 2012/2013 partira des Sables d’Olonne le dimanche 11 novembre 2012 à 15h et s’annonce déjà comme un très grand cru. A deux ans (…)