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 !
Elie Canivenc a terminé la construction de son Class40. Le voilier va être mis à l’eau à La Trinité sur Mer le 14 décembre prochain. Juste après le salon nautique. Le voilier sera baptisé, à l’occasion, par Thomas Coville. Voici quelques images de l’Exocet40 avant qu’il ne rejoigne son élément.
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.
Comme un air de « déjà vu » n’est-ce pas ? Thomas Ruyant, les bras en l’air, fier comme un paon qu’il a chassé avant la Mini 2009 et qui orne son chapeau fétiche… Vainqueur un an après la Transat 650 de la Route du Rhum en Class 40, le Dunkerquois est le SeaSailSurfer du mois.
Ce projet sera présenté officiellement au salon nautique vendredi 3 décembre. Mais de quoi s’agit-il ? Personnellement, j’ai, comme beaucoup, le nom des archi, constructeur et initiateur... Mais pas plus. Et vous ? Des invitations SeaSailSurf pour le salon à gagner pour les premières bonnes réponses !
Après des essais en mer à Port-La-Forêt où l’engin a été construit, Anne Quéméré et la famille Adrien a pu célébrer le baptême de son kiteboat. Le parrain est l’ancien skipper maison, Jean Luc Van Den Heede.
Deux à zéro ! La victoire d’Emirates Team New Zealand est magistrale. Dans les eaux du golfe Persique, les hommes de Dean Barker et de Grant Dalton ont triomphé de BMW ORACLE, adversaire pourtant difficile. Ils ont d’abord piégé James Spithill, pénalisé avant le premier départ. Et l’ont distancé avec insolence lors de la deuxième manche – une (…)
Defending World Champions Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi produced a Championship winning drive to clinch a tenth World title for Dubai’s Victory Team, winning a dramatic and incident filled race 2 of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix , with two separate incidents involving Victory 2010 and a collision between Skydive Dubai and Negotiator, forcing (…)
Arrivé sur la troisième marche du podium de la 9e Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale, Thomas Coville qui visait ouvertement la victoire en classe Ultime n’a pas caché sa déception sur les pontons de Pointe-à-Pitre. Le vainqueur de l’édition 1998 qui avait particulièrement bien préparé sa participation à l’épreuve a décidé de vite tourner la page. (…)