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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.
Designer and builder of his mini in 2004, he finished 7th in the Transat 650 in 2005. then he worked with Rogers design to conceive the Class40 he sails from 2008. With the Figarist and past mini sailor Adrien Hardy, he made a nice course from France to Yucatan to win the two-handed race ahead of Jourdren & Stamm and Soldini & d’Ali. He his the SeaSailSurfer of november.
SeaSailsurf barometer of the month
Going Up
Bernard Stamm
has a full 2010 season and makes built a new Open 60
Marc Guillemot
winner of the Transat Jacques Vabre and IMOCA world champ
Stephanie Gilmore
wins the woment ASP World Tour for the third time
Going Down
Seb Josse
abandons again
Yves Le Blévec
capsizes with his new trimaran
Franck Cammas
has to stop in Cape Town in his second Jules Vernes Trophy attempt
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 !
Si, cette année, le gros temps n’était pas au rendez-vous pour la traversée du golfe de Gascogne, les organismes des marins, comme les machines, ont souffert. Le Figaro-Bénéteau de Troussel & Le Cléac’h (Myrialis) a dû se retirer du match hier. Les autres navigateurs encore en course avouent aussi être fatigués, en avant, comme en arrière (…)
Comme prévu depuis trois jours, la situation actuelle n’est pas des plus simples pour le maxi-catamaran Orange qui doit faire face à une situation météo des plus complexes. Si pour le moment, Bruno Peyron et ses hommes naviguent au près bon plein à près de 20 noeuds, ils devraient lever le pied demain en entrant dans une zone anticyclonique qui (…)
Bernard Gergaud a assisté à la mise à l’eau du trimaran de Philippe Monnet. Le vainqueur du Paris-Dakar automobile et détenteur du record du tour du monde à la voile en solitaire et contre les vents dominants arrive sur le circuit des multicoques de 60 pieds !
C’est à 7h 12 (heure française) ce matin que le VO 60 battant pavillon australien, Team News Corp, franchissait la ligne d’arrivée de la 6e étape, un sprint de 875 milles entre Miami – Baltimore. Cette victoire de l’équipage de Jez Fanstone, la première depuis le début de l’épreuve, est un magnifique cadeau d’anniversaire pour le co-skipper (…)
Cointo à la barre, Guérin aux réglages. Photo : F.Mousis
La flotte des concurrents de la sixième Transat AG2R est passée hier en fin d’après midi au large du cap Finisterre. Morvan & Caudrelier-Bénac mènent le groupe du large alors que Guérin & Cointo sont passés à terre pour les doubler.
La flotte de Figaro-Bénéteau en route vers Madère compte depuis ce matin un concurrent de moins. Le voilier Myrialis a fait demi-tour sur problèmes techniques. Il était alors en tête de la course avec sept milles d’avance sur ses premiers poursuivants.
Deliberately, and because there is no other choice, Orange has surrendered herself to the anticyclone. The wild run started under Australia has butted up, off Tristan da Cunha, against the soft belly of high pressure circulating off Africa. Speeds are tumbling. The sails are barely being filled. Helmsmen and trimmers are hunting the tiniest (…)
Yesterday’s chess game for the Volvo Ocean Race fleet appears now to have changed into a game of snakes and ladders, dependent on the roll of the dice with the fickle conditions and complex current scenarios. With the boats so close together, the main factor for the tacticians will be to minimise the losses against the rest of the fleet, (…)