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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 registered by a GPS over the best 500 meters in the 3 nm run. Douglas, Consorti, etc are ture record holders and Alex Caizergues, 1rst to go over the 100 mph is the SeaSailSurfer of the month !
Le baromètre SeaSailSurf of october 2010
Going Up
Charlotte Consorti
1st woman over 50 knots
Rob Douglas
New record holder over 500 m
François Gabart
Cap Istanbul winner and new n°1 in the Figaro-Bénéteau class
Going Down
David Raison
Magnum had to withdraw again
Gildas Morvan
has lost in the Marmara sea the cap Istanbul and the championship
Pierre-Yves Lautrou
Only one to abandon before the start of the Rhum after an accident when convoying his Class40
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.
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 Franco-Italian geologist of 39 years old Alessandro di Benedetto accomplished this July a solo round the world tour, without making stopover, on the race course of the Vendée Globe. He made it in 268 days on board a mini 650 and he is the SeaSailSurfer of July 2010.
La décoration du nouveau Géant est signée Jean-Baptiste Epron.
Michel Desjoyeaux a présenté lors d’une conférence de presse tenue ce jour à Paris, son nouveau voilier. Le successeur du monocoque PRB avec lequel le Finistérien a remporté le Vendée Globe est un trimaran dessiné par le tandem Marc Van Peteghem et Vincent Lauriot-Prévost. Un voilier dans la lignée des multicoques de la nouvelle génération.
Results from ongoing and extensive media research in specific territories, confirm that the Volvo Ocean Race is reaching a wider audience than ever before.
Aidé par toute son équipe, Ronan a terminé l’assemblage des bordés et s’attaque à la stratification générale de la coque à bouchains. Le propriétaire du Banjo présente cette nouvelle phase de la construction du voilier.
For leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race which starts this Sunday in Auckland, Team SEB, currently in sixth position overall, has hired French solo and trimaran sailor Pascal Bidegorry, aged 34.
Pascal Bidegorry à bord de team Seb. Photo Oskar Kihlborg / Team SEB
Kunnar Krantz, le skipper de Team SEB, l’un des deux bateaux suédois engagés dans la Volvo Ocean Race 2001-2002, a annoncé ce matin qu’il embarquait le marin français (et basque) Pascal Bidegorry pour la quatrième manche, Auckland – Rio de Janeiro, qui part dimanche prochain. Au cours de cette étape difficile, les concurrents vont affronter (…)
Yann Eliès embarque sur le catamaran géant " Orange " skippé par Bruno Peyron, comme barreur et responsable de l’accastillage, pour tenter de battre le Trophée Jules Verne, actuellement détenu par Olivier de Kersauzon en 71 jours.
Nick Moloney, Kingfisher co-skipper and member of the Kingfisher Challenges team with Ellen MacArthur, has left Marseilles to join Brest, starting port for Bruno Peyron’s record attempt against the Jules Verne Trophy. Interview by Offshore Challenges.
L’équipage de Bruno Peyron pour le tour du monde. Photo : G.Martin-Raget
Il était 11h30 ce matin lorsqu’une partie de l’équipe de France de rugby entraînée par Fabien Pelous, est montée à bord du maxi-catamaran Orange pour rejoindre le skipper Bruno Peyron et son équipage, réunis au complet autour du Maire de Marseille, M.Jean-Claude Gaudin et de M.Guy Lafarge, Directeur du Marketing d’Orange France, pour le baptême (…)
Banjo, le plan Rolland en contre plaqué de Diane et Roland Gélébart, mesure 9,50 mètres de long. "Un gros mini ou un petit 60 pieds !" le présente son constructeur.