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Tanguy de Lamotte belongs to those who believed in Class40 from the beginning. He is rewarded for his efforts since he won, with Adrien Hardy, the first edition of the Solidaire du Chocolat.
SeaSailSurfer of September 2009 : Francisco Lobato
The winner of leg 1 and second overall of Transat 650 : September was rich in events. PYM and Benoit achieved their crossing from New York to Lorient, the 60 feet fleet joined Brest from Istanbul, Class 40 covered 1000 miles, Multi 50 launched three new boats… as for the man the month, he illustrated himself on Charente Maritime Bahia Transat 650.
His double victory of both legs in Les Sables - the Azores in 2008 had impressed everybody. But “the protos were not ready” they said… The “level was not high”… However, Francisco Lobato nerly did the same in the leg 1 of the Transat 650 as he finished second and dominated the race leading the leg at the helm of his Pogo2, a one-designed mini.
This time, there are still excuses : “the skippers of proto slowed down not to break”, “they awaited the 2nd stage to accelerate”, “the sea was strong and prevented the protos from going quicker than the series”, etc. If most were true indeed, everyone admits that the Portuguese was the best skipper from La Rochelle to Madeira.
Francisco Lobato is the man of September 2009. He was also SeaSailSurfer of the year 2008. Going for a double win ?
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Moreau & Lequin
Both guyes from Lorient (Brittany, France) mad their crossing of the North Atlantic aboard their 20’ catamaran.
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 !
The wind came in smoothly at around 11 O’ clock and everybody was prepared for a relaxed morning. A little bit later the riders couldn’t believe their eyes because the wind picked up heavily within 15 minutes and sails down to 4.2 had to be rigged in a hurry.
Heavy rain and glowering clouds did nothing to dampen the spirits of the huge crowds, which gathered on the dockside in Annapolis today, for the start of the 3,400 nautical mile Volvo Ocean Race leg seven, to La Rochelle in France.
Paris, le 28 avril 2002. Les Figaro-Bénéteau en route vers Saint Barthélemy battent des records de vitesse. Le plus rapide sur les dernières 24 heures est Jean Floc’h du tandem Breton Drouglazet & Riou. A presque neufs noeuds de vitesse moyenne, les monocoques de neuf mètres de long sont très rapides… par rapport à leur taille.
The next three days will be under strict surveillance... Indeed, the maxi-cat Orange is continuing to progress in a NE trade wind, that’s to say fairly close to the wind and it should take them as far as the edge of the Azores high which is less than 1,000 nm to the north before turning towards Ushant.
Les trois prochains jours vont être sous haute surveillance... En effet, le maxi-catamaran Orange continue de progresser dans l’alizé de nord-est soit vent trois quart de face et se doit d’atteindre la bordure de l’anticyclone des Açores qui se situe à moins de 1 000 milles dans le nord avant de mettre le cap sur Ouessant. En attendant, le (…)
Alors que les projecteurs étaient tournés vers les ceux trimarans Tim et Sergio Tacchini de Giovanni Soldini et Karine Fauconnier, dix minis prenaient part à la course en double italienne.
Avec l’impossibilité de lancer de nouvelles manches ce dimanche, le classement du Grand Prix du Pays de Lorient est établi sur les cinq manches courues vendredi et samedi. En cumulant trois victoires contre deux pour Loïck Peyron (Fujifilm), Franck Cammas (Groupama) remporte ce premier rendez-vous du Championnat 9 TELECOM 2002.
Paris, le 28 avril 2002. Un jour et demi de route depuis le départ de Funchal. Encore 2350 milles devant les étraves avant de rejoindre Saint Barthélemy. Peu de monde en veille au téléphone… Les barreurs sont concentrés à la barre des 24 Figaro-Bénéteau en course dans cette sixième Transat AG2R.
Les quatre manches du jour ont donné lieu à de superbes bagarres entre les trimarans du Grand Prix du Pays de Lorient . De belles situations tactiques, des équipages combatifs, et au sommet, le fabuleux duel entre Franck Cammas (Groupama) et Loïck Peyron (Fujifilm). Ce soir, Franck Cammas est en tête.