On December 3rd, Michel Desjoyeaux wasback in the top 10 of the Vendée Globe, 3 weeks after his second start from Les Sables d’Olonne. At the end of the month, he is the leader. Mich’Desj is the SeaSailSurfer of December.
Double winner of the women worlds match-racing title : On April 6th, Claire Leroy and Marie Riou, Elodie Bertrand and Claire Pruvot won the women match-racing world title in New Zealand. For the second time in two years. She is the SeaSailSurfer of April 2008.
Breton sailor is used with podiums. Last year she won both world and european titles. She was also named Rolex Sailor of the World by the ISAF. This year she looks to be on the same course with a new world title. And she is ready for more as, after her world title, she said « we are waiting for the ISAF to know if women match-racing will be in the Olympic Games in 2012. If yes, it will become my main objective. » We hope so.
SeaSailSurf’s barometer of April 2008
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France Team
France olympic team will enter in the 11 series of the Bejing Games.
Lionel Lemonchois
Gitana XIII’ skipper offer the Pacific record to his team.
Sébastien Josse
Seb is everywhere. In London to launch his new Open 60. In France inside K Challenge 2, the team for the 34th America’s Cup.
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The Artemis Transat
Few Class 40s, lots of Open 60s withdrawing before the start… It win’t be on of the best « British Transat ».
Adrien Hardy
The young sailor comes from mini to Figaro circuit. He won the Challenge Espoir but denied the 2 years sponsoring to manage his own one.
Jean Galfione
The pole vaulter discovers offshore racing. But he withdrawed before Madeira islands.
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 !
Associé à Éric Drouglazet, Sébastien Josse, vingt-cinq ans, fera partie, le 16 avril prochain, des favoris de la transat en double Lorient - Saint Barthélémy. Jeune professionnel de la course au large, il rêve aussi de monocoque open et de Vendée Globe.
Le premier novembre 2000, un nom est venu s’afficher à la une de tous les journaux : Ievoli Sun. Un nom parmi de nombreux autres, anciens ou récents, a jouté à la longue listes des épaves qui se disolvent doucement à quelques encablures des côtes de France.
Le 26 septembre prochain, le neveu d’Éric Tabarly va participer à sa première transatlantique en solitaire, la Mini Transat. Dans le sillage des grands.
Morvan et Caudrelier-Bénac vainqueurs de la première étape à Porto Santo et du Trophée BPE. Photo : Ch.Guigueno
Le 14 avril prochain, une quarantaine de Figaro Bénéteau s’élanceront en double de Lorient pour tenter de succéder à Karine Fauconnier et Lionel Lemonchois au prestigieux palmarès de la Transat AG2R.
Le K-Challenge est une fusée à trois étages. Lancée lors du salon nautique de Paris, un peu plus d’un an avant les matches de la Coupe de l’America 2003, l’engin spatial va lâcher son premier étage en 2002 par une série d’entraînements orchestrée par l’Américaine Dawn Riley.
The fleet racing in the Volvo Ocean Race will, for the first time, take part in the 630-nautical mile CYCA Sydney to Hobart yacht race as part of the 2,050 nautical-mile leg three to Auckland, New Zealand.
The start will be on Boxing Day, December 26th, in Sydney, Australia and the fleet will start off its own start line, 200 metres in front (…)
Stamm, Bestaven et Parlier : le trio vainqueur ? Photos : Ch.Guigueno
Depuis un mois, vous pouvez élire le SeaSailSurfer de l’année 2001. Après plus de cent votes, deux hommes régatent en tête du classement. Le recordman de l’atlantique et le vainqueur de la Transat 650 sont toujours difficiles à départager.
Le Xbox Pipeline Masters est un des plus prestigieux événements du championnat mondial de surf. A la grande surprise générale, c’est Bruce Irons, 21 ans, qui s’est imposé. En finale à quatre, il a pris le dessus sur le Floridien Kelly Slater, cinq fois vainqueur du Pipeline Master ; son compatriote C.J. Hobgood, tout juste sacré champion du (…)
Sébastien Josse rêve de tour du monde en équipage et même en solitaire. Photo : Ch.Guigueno
Le catamaran Orange, ex-Innovation Explorer que Bruno Peyron compte mener contre le Trophée Jules Verne en début d’année 2002 est toujours en chantier à La Ciotat. S’il doit être remis à l’eau prochainement, son skipper a déjà réuni une équipe de “préparateurs” dont les Figaristes Gilles Chiorri et Sébastien Josse.
Soixante-huit voiliers, soit 250 navigateurs, ont répondu présent à l’appel du CNBPP : la Coupe de Noël / trophée X-Voiles a engendré un sérieux engouement chez les marins d’hiver.