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
UP
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.
DOWN
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 !
La jauge Mini pourrait évoluer dans les prochaines années. En dehors du débat sur l’autorisation des mâts en carbone dans la division Prototypes, s’est aussi posée lors de la dernière assemblée générale la question sur les bout-dehors en Série. Les membres de la classe se sont, là encore, positionné en faveur d’une réflexion plus approfondie. (…)
In the french version of SeaSailSurf.com, you can read Sébastien Magnen, Pierre Rolland, Ollivier Bordeau and Denis Glehen’s answers about the possible change in the prototype division of the mini 650 class rules. This time, it is to Leo Voornevelt to answer to thoses question.
Leo followed the last Transat 650 Charente Maritime Bahia. As (…)
Un deuxième défi français pour la coupe de l’America ! Est-ce vraiment possible alors que le team actuel, Le Défi peine à trouver un budget pour rejoindre Auckland ? C’est en tout cas ce que pensent les Kandler père et fils. Appuyés sur leur société K-Yachting, ils lancent K-Challenge. Un cas à part dans l’histoire de la Coupe en France.
Le jeune Anglais Alex Bennett convoyait le monocoque jaune ex-Aqua Quorum quand il a été contraint d’abandonner son bord après que le système hydraulique qui fait pivoter la quille ait donné de graves signes de faiblesse.
14th December 2001, 29 26 09’ N 26 03 49’ W : At 23.00 GMT Alex Bennett, 25-year-old solo yachtsman, abandoned his Open 50 racing yacht ‘One Dream One Mission’ to the elements.
Like the other skippers of Open 60 monohulls, the American sailor Bruce Schwab has done his inversion test for his new Ocean Planet. An important moment for the skipper :
Après Sébastien Magnen et Pierre Rolland, deux architectes navals, Ollivier Bordeau, un constructeur, voici l’avis d’un spécialistes des calculs de structures. Denis Gléhen est responsable des calculs chez HDS (Hervé Devaux Structures) à Brest. Il a travaillé sur les études de Club Med, de différents trimarans de 60 pieds et dernièrement de (…)
Une bonne prise sur le pont de Sill Plein Fruit. Photo : G. Le Cléac’h
Trois monocoques sont actuellement en convoyage retour vers la France. D’un côté, Sill Plein Fruit, l’Open 60 victorieux de la Transat Jacques Vabre rentre aux mains de Gaël Le Cléac’h et son équipage, accompagné par celui de Dominique Wavre. D’un autre, Adrien, le monocoque ‘no limit’ de 25 mètres de Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, qui poursuit sa (…)
Le patron du chantier naval Latitude 48°24’ répond, à son tour et sur le ton de l’humour, sur l’opportunité d’ouvrir la jauge des 650 prototypes aux tubes en carbone.
Grant Dalton doit maudire la rafale de 45 nœuds qui a couché Amer Sports One la veille de son arrivée à Sydney. Projeté à l’intérieur du bateau dans une chute magistrale, alors qu’il était entrain de cuisiner (fait exceptionnel), Dalton souffre de deux côtes cassées ainsi que de plusieurs fractures aux vertèbres qui pourraient l’empêcher de (…)