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SeaSailSurfer of the month
SeaSailSurfer of November 2009 : Tanguy de Lamotte
Winner of the Solidaire du Chocolat
mercredi 2 décembre 2009 –
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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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SeaSailSurf barometer of september 2009
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Moreau & Lequin | Both guyes from Lorient (Brittany, France) mad their crossing of the North Atlantic aboard their 20’ catamaran. | article |
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Alain Thébault | the Hydroptère’ skippers now owns by himself the 500m et one mille records. | article |
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Giovanni Soldini | The Italian is named skipper of the Italian challenge for the next Volvo Ocean Race.. | article |
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Class40 | The class of the 40 feet monohulls does not like the poll of SeaSailSurf.com about the Chocolate (compared to the Jacques Vabre) and made it kown.. | breve |
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Prototypes 650 | Only Bertrand Delesne saved the honour of the prototype division. | article |
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Marc Thiercelin | where was DCNS in the Istanbul Europa Race ? Farr away. | breve |
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SeaSailSurfer of september 2010 : Russell Coutts
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SeaSailSurfer of August 2010 : Bertrand Delesne
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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