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 !
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Dans le port de Saint Gilles Croix de Vie (85), le prototype du Futur remplaçant de l’actuel Figaro Bénéteau est amarré. Il est actuellement testé par les responsables du chantier Bénéteau et par le skipper Pascal Bidégorry. Il sera présenté le 31 août prochain à Cherbourg.
Après une journée de transition au cours de laquelle le vent a joué à cache-cache avec les nuages obligeant le comité de course à revoir ses prévisions à la baisse dans sa quête de résultat officiel d’une épreuve de Freestyle, cette quatrième journée de compétition du « Bouygues Telecom – Rip Curl Funboard Tour 2002 » démarre sous de meilleurs (…)
1691 milles aux détours de la Manche, de la Mer Celtique, du golfe de Gascogne. Un parcours équilibré à base de parcours côtiers « pas cotons » et de large en long. Du petit temps à forte dose et de la brise en quelques rasades. Des solitaires hors-pair qui se sont disputés les honneurs jusqu’au bout. Quatre vainqueurs d’étape et la victoire au (…)
En inscrivant, hier à Cherbourg, son nom au palmarès de la Solitaire du Figaro, Kito de Pavant gagne son ticket pour le XIIIe Trophée Clairefontaine, qui débutera jeudi prochain à La Trinité-sur-Mer. Il rejoint ainsi : Loïck Peyron, Ellen MacArthur (GB), Michel Desjoyeaux (vainqueur en titre), Randy Smyth (E-U), Franck Cammas, Roland "Bilou" (…)
Troisième participation et première victoire, Christophe "Kito" De Pavant a remporté la Solitaire du Figaro 2002 devant un des plateaux les plus relevés et les plus homogènes que la course n’aie connu en 33 éditions. Cette victoire, pourtant incontestable, fait de Kito le SeaSailSurfer du mois d’août 2002 !
Après une éprouvante première journée de compétition le « Bouygues Telecom – Rip Curl Funboard Tour 2002 » s’est réveillé jeudi matin sous un beau soleil et une mer très calme. La météo annonce quand même un vent d’ouest sud-ouest force 2 à 4 pour l’après midi, mais pour l’heure c’est plutôt ambiance automnale avec une belle rosée matinale.
It’s a rare occasion in the history of the race. This year, the Single-handed Figaro crowns a great winner who has not won a single leg. It is thanks to his regularity that Kito De Pavant takes all the laurels at Cherbourg-Octeville. At 41, this skipper from Hérault, with obvious kindness and talent, hoists himself onto the highest step on the (…)