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.
Winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup with Emirates Team NZL : Called to the rescue of the Kiwi challenger in 2003, the New Zealander, 50 years last July 1st, managed to fill its first contract. While winning the Louis Vuitton Cup, the loosing Defender of the 31th edition of the Cup signed its come-back against Alinghi for the match of the 32e America’s Cup… A spirit of revenge in the air. Mission accomplished ?
To replace Peter Blake then Russel Coutts, it was necessary for Kiwis to find somebody who would not fear of the comparison with his great predecessors. Winner in his past offshore career of the Whitbread 1981-82, and of The Race in 2001 (between others), Dalton came to carry his offshore experiment to the very specific field of the match-racing for this 32nd America’s Cup. And the least that one can say is that he reached that (firts) goal. Dalton is the man of June 2007.
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 !
Racing started on time today in a 10 knot South-Easterly under a clear summer sky. The race course situation, in the lee of Rangitoto Island, meant that the wind on the water was patchy with different amounts of breeze blowing just metres apart. The result of both races today was determined more by being in the right pressure at the right time (…)
Seuls deux nouveaux matches ont pu être disputés lors des régates organisées à Auckland par le Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. Les Kiwis, vainqueurs de la dernière Coupe de l’America par cinq victoires à zéro face aux Italiens de Prada, affrontaient les Américains de OneWorld quand les Suédois du Victory Challenge affrontaient les Anglais du (…)
Mardi matin la flotte, qui remonte en ce moment vers Rio de Janeiro après avoir doublé le Cap Horn, se scindait en deux pour négocier le passages des îles Falklands. Amer Sports One et Djuice, optaient pour une route contournant l’archipel par l’est, le reste de la flotte emmenée par illbruk, passant dans son ouest.
Orange on the starting line. Broken Mast (down). Photos : G.Martin-Raget
Bruno Peyron and his twelve men crew left Brest at 8:35, local time, this morning. Then they put sails and cape to the west to leave the bay of Brest and join the starting line of the round the world record.
Le soleil levant avait teinté d’orange le ciel et la mer de Brest. Cela pouvait pourtant paraître de bonne augure pour Bruno Peyron et ses équipiers en quête de Trophée Jules Verne. Hélas, une demi heure après la ligne de départ franchie, le mât leur ait tombé sur la tête...
Racing was delayed for several hours today (Thursday) as the forecast South Easterly failed to appear, and a North Easterly sea breeze filled in late in the afternoon to give light and patchy winds never exceeding 10 knots. Two flights were run, which means that Round Robin One is finished and the first flight of Round Robin Two has been held. (…)
Le premier round robin de l’International regatta s’est achevé à Auckland. Deux matches de plus on pu être disputés. A l’issue de ce premier tour et demi, les blacks de Dean Barker n’ont encore concédé aucune défaite à leurs trois challengers.
Le jeune Figariste Antoine Koch veut participer à la Route du Rhum. Pour cela, il cherche un Open 60 pour prendre le départ de la transatlantique en solitaire en novembre prochain dans la grande classe des monocoques.
For each of those sailing on the Volvo Ocean Race a day in the office is full of tasks that could all be included under a heading of monotonous daily chores. These chores, however, do not include putting the rubbish out for the bin men, collecting the daily newspaper and reading the mail, but are more tacking, stacking and moving gear to the (…)