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 Protocol prévisionnel publié par le Defender Emirates Team New Zealand le 23 mai dernier, fruit de discussions impliquant toutes les équipes, marque différentes avancées que nous soutenons.
C’est peu après minuit que l’IMOCA VULNERABLE de Thomas Ruyant, Manon Peyre, Morgan Lagravière, Ambrogio Beccaria, accompagnés du mediaman Pierre Bouras, a brutalement interrompu sa chevauchée fantastique dans la Course des Caps - Boulogne sur Mer - Banque Populaire du Nord. Alors qu’il évoluait en deuxième position, en chasse du leader Macif, (…)
Dans la chaleur de la nuit des Açores, les Italiens Luca Rosetti et Mattéo Sericano ont franchi la ligne d’arrivée en tête de la première étape de la course Les Sables – Horta – Les Sables, à 00h10 et 32 secondes, heure locale. Ils bouclent ce tronçon de 1 270 milles théoriques en 4j 14h 10min 32, établissant ainsi un nouveau temps de référence (…)
L’Act 2 des Ocean Fifty Series s’achève à Concarneau sur de belles actions réalisées dans le cadre du premier grand prix ambitieux en termes d’inclusion, de mixité et de durabilité et sur une nouvelle victoire d’Erwan Le Roux (Koesio) après celle de l’Act 1 à Saint-Malo. Il s’en est fallu de peu. Sébastien Rogues (Inter Invest) occupait la (…)
While the penultimate day of racing at the 44Cup Marstand was cancelled due to excess wind, today conditions off the paradise Swedish island for the final three races were still boisterous, less due to the southwesterly wind being in the high teens, but from the lumpy residual sea state from Friday’s gale.
Volvo 70 Tschüss 2 (USA), owned by Christian Zugel and co-skippered by Johnny Mordaunt, has taken Line Honours in the West to East Transatlantic Race 2025 in an elapsed time of 07 Day 15 Hrs 29 Mins and 10 Secs. Tschüss 2 Crew : Christian Zugel, Johnny Mordaunt, Al Fraser, Andrew McLean, Campbell Field, Christopher Welch, Edward Myers, Fredric (…)
"C’est la rencontre entre différentes cultures et des technologies avancées qui nous permet de concevoir un voilier révolutionnaire." C’est ainsi que Giovanni Soldini présente son nouveau bateau qui sera mis à l’eau en 2026.
Pour raison de santé, Charlie Dalin est contraint de renoncer à sa saison 2025. Toutefois, en étroite concertation avec son équipe, le skipper de l’Imoca MACIF Santé Prévoyance et Macif ont décidé de maintenir le programme de courses ambitieux prévu. Sam Goodchild, qui le remplace déjà pour la Course des Caps, prendra donc la barre de MACIF (…)
A 16 heures, 21 minutes et 14 secondes, le Groupe Réel a passé la ligne devant Port Haliguen. Alexis Loison et Corentin Horeau sont vainqueurs de la 15e édition du Tour Bretagne Voile !
Les 18 catamarans des 12H Banque Populaire Grand Ouest peuvent souffler : leur marathon nautique est terminé ! Se relayant sans relâche depuis 10h07, heure du coup d’envoi ce samedi 21 juin à La Baule, les équipages ont tout donné pour effectuer le plus de tours possibles avant 22h00, heure officielle de la fin de cette première édition.