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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.
Every year, Farr30 teams race around France during one month. This month, Daniel Souben has won the race at the head of the crew sailing "Courier Dunkerque". A second win as he was title holder this year.
Daniel Souben from Vannes is a past Tornado and F18 sailor. He has been team manager for the Banque Populaire trimaran in 2000-2003. He joined the "Courier Dunkerque" team in 2005 and became the skipper in 2006. It took him two years to win the race, now won twice. This time with a lead of 70 points… He is the SeaSailSufer of the month.
Past trimaran Sergio Tacchini’ skipper is back offshore with Giovanni Soldini to win the Class40 race Les Sables - Horta.
Bouvet & Bion
Young french team won the junior 470’s worlds.
Joubert & Nivelt
Famous yacht designers won the competition todesign the future one-designed monohull for the Tour de France.
Going down
Christian Bos
He is the only one of the final entry list not to start the 2009 Solitaire du Figaro. No budget.
Pascal Bidégorry
Banque Populaire V’ skipper has been able to cross the Atlantic to join New York before waiting during one month for a start against the North Atlantic record.
Russel Coutts
His project for the Tour de France new one-design has not won the final competition (i twas in th elast top 3) and Alinghi has launched its new weapon for the next America’s Cup.
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 !
– ??¬- ?$e 30 avril 2002. Les vingt-quatre équipages de la Transat AG2R 2002 poursuivent leur chevauchée à 8 noeuds de vitesse moyenne. Les premiers glissent sous spinnaker au large de l’archipel des Açores, propulsés par son anticyclone bienveillant.
Today all the yachts reached the Gulf Stream, the huge flow of warm water that gives the Volvo Ocean Race yachts a boost on their way across the Atlantic Ocean. Tyco’s navigator Steve Hayles was the first one to report on what the crews call their flying carpet : "We stayed relatively close and the majority of the boats are in sight at present (…)
520 milles à 21,66 noeuds de moyenne sur les dernières 24 heures à 10h00 ce matin : autant dire que le maxi-catamaran Orange profite pleinement de cet alizé qui le pousse à vitesse soutenue vers l’anticyclone des Açores. Le géant Marseillais pointe aujourd’hui à 700 milles dans le sud-ouest de l’archipel portugais soit à moins de 2000 milles de (…)
C’est près de 24 heures après le coup d’envoi de la 7e étape Annapolis - La Rochelle, que les huit VO 60 de la Volvo Ocean Race ont quitté hier, à 7h (heure française), l’immense baie de Chesapeake, la plus longue des Etats Unis avec ses 120 milles nord – sud de profondeur.
Eole est venu jouer les troubles fêtes, ce week-end, au large des côtes bretonnes, obligeant la S.N.C. (Société Nautique de la Baie de Concarneau), organisatrice de la Solitaire de Concarneau et Didier COZIC, président du Comité de Course, à réduire le parcours de 150 milles initialement prévu.
Paris, le 29 avril 2002. Après trois jours de course, les voiliers de la sixième Transat AG2R ont déjà parcouru plus du quart du chemin vers Saint Barthélemy. Les plus rapides d’entre eux alignent plus de 200 milles par jour. Au sein de la flotte, le vainqueur de la première étape gère l’euphorie.
Condescendant, l’anticyclone se déplace vers la Mauritanie au passage du maxi catamaran Orange, ouvrant la route des Açores aux hommes de Peyron. Les alizés qui soufflent depuis Madère et les Canaries ont forci cette nuit et le skipper Marseillais a une nouvelle fois dû composer avec une mer de face. Orange ouvre à présent ses voiles et sur une (…)
The sailing instructions for this last trans-ocean leg in the Volvo Ocean Race have added an exclusion zone to keep the yachts out of the ice that is swept south by the Labrador Current. Large icebergs are drifting as far south as 40N, that‚s as far south as Spain or Italy. It was about this latitude where Titanic hit an iceberg, exactly 90 (…)
Paris, le 29 avril 2002. Les vingt-quatre voiliers de la sixième Transat AG2R naviguent en formation, tels un vol de cigognes en route pour les chaudes latitudes. En avant du groupe, Philippe Vicariot & Erwan Tabarly (Thales Armor Lux) ouvrent la route vers Saint Barthélemy, sans sembler vouloir passer le relais pour autant.
Au deuxième jour du Trophée Banque Fédéral Finance – Coupe Internationale de Bretagne, disputé en préambule au Grand Prix Petit Navire, la baie de Douarnenez s’est une fois encore parée de ses plus beaux atours.