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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.
The mini circuit makes the offshore sailors of the next years. A new generation appears from 2008 whith Thomas Ruyant at the head. Behind the skipper of past Isabelle Joschke’s prototype, the mini class makes discover more and more sailors under 25 yo. In the serie division, the one to follow is Davy Beaudart.
Age of 24, Davy from Hennebont, close to Lorient in Brittany, sails in the Mini Class from 5 years. He first sailed at the helm of a Pogo. He was qualified for the previous Transat 650 but decided not to compete. His Pogo was not fast enough and he had not enough experience. Now he steers a Pogo 2 of the new generation and cumulated goods results. In 2008 he won the solo Trophée MAP and this month, he took the Mini-Pavois and Chrono 650. A young guy to follow in the Transat 650 in september. And he is the SeaSailSurfer of the month.
SeaSailsurf barometer of the month
Going Up
Yann ELIES
He is back in the Figaro circuit after his dramatic Vendée Globe… andwins two solo races.
Boris HERMAN & Felix OEHME
The german crews increases its lead in the Class 40 round the world race after its win in Charleston.
Franck CAMMAS
Back sailing with his giant trimaran, the skipper added a new record with the Mediterranean one.
Going Down
WINCHES CLUB
Without enough budget, the club from Douarnenez won’t be able to organize a Mini-Transat in 2010.
33rd AMERICA’S CUP
Spy, new boat in US, which boat in Switzerland, date… Still boring.
Team BANQUE POPULAIRE V
Not sailing. The giant trimaran is in her shipyard. The bottom of the floats being rebuilt.
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 !
Délibérément, et parce qu’il n’y a pas d’autre choix, Orange s’est livré aux griffes de l’anticyclone. La course folle entamée depuis l’Australie vient buter aujourd’hui au large de Tristan da Cunha dans le ventre mou des hautes pressions qui circulent au large de l’Afrique. Les vitesses chutent. Les voiles peinent à se gonfler. Barreurs et (…)
Après trois jours de course, les 8 équipages engagés dans cette 6e manche de la Volvo Ocean Race semblent un peu éreintés par les effets de cette régate de contact sur fond de Gulf Stream. En effet, depuis le départ mouvementé de Miami, dimanche dernier, les manœuvres ont été incessantes et la panoplie complète des spis embarqués a été envoyée (…)
Samuel Manuard a terminé quatrième de la Transat 650 Charente Maritime Bahia. A peine rentré du Brésil, il s’est attaqué au dessin et à la mise en chantier d’un mini qui tire les bénéfices de son expérience de 2001. Mail interview .
C’est à deux heures ce matin qu’Armel Le Cléac’h et Nicolas Troussel, leader au précédent pointage avec sept milles d’avance, ont annoncé au comité de course qu’ils faisaient demi-tour.
The high is still filling. It is pushing away the low. Collusive, these two systems seem to be joining forces to bar Orange’s route back up the heart of the South Atlantic. The emergency exit envisaged yesterday to the east of the centre of high pressure has evaporated in Peyron’s face, far off the African coast. Behind, the low is deepening, (…)
Le cap Finisterre, la pointe nord-ouest de l’Espagne, marque un point de passage obligé pour les vingt-cinq Figaro-Bénéteau en route vers Madère. La flotte s’est divisée en trois groupes avec Armel Le Cléac’h & Nicolas Troussel (Myrialis) en échappés sur la route directe. Mais à leur vent, deux groupes chassent en formation.
Yacht racing has often been likened to a three-dimensional game of chess and for the navigators and tacticians on their way to Baltimore, juggling the different moves and anticipating the final stages of this short leg, will prove just as taxing. Mark Rudiger from ASSA ABLOY wrote on his way into Auckland that he would be giving up gambling, (…)
Il enfle l’anticyclone. Elle pousse la dépression. Complices, ces deux phénomènes semblent décupler leurs forces pour barrer la remontée d’Orange au coeur de l’Atlantique Sud. La porte de sortie envisagée hier dans l’est du centre des hautes pressions s’est évanouie au nez de Peyron, loin sous les côtes africaines. Derrière, la dépression se (…)