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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.
Flores has won in Hawaii his first event in the ASP World Tour. Now he is in the top ten of the best world surfers as he finishes 9th in the world rankings.
SeaSailSurf barometer of December 2010
UP
Bouvet & Mion
New youth 470 world champs
Mark Richards
Gives to Wild Oats XI a 5th win in Sydney - Hobart
Ben Ainslie
New world match racing champion
DOWN
Alex Thomson
Unable to take the start of the BWR
Kris Owczarek
The Barcelona World Race did not let him take the start
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 (…)
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 !
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.
Avec 186 monotypes répartis dans 10 classes de huit concurrents minimum (Bénéteau 25, Etchell, J/22, J/24, Mumm 30, Smeralda 888, Star, Surprise, UFO 22 et Melges 24), la Primo a pulvérisé son record de participation, confirmant ainsi son rang de première épreuve de monotypie de la saison.
Skippers d’Islande a été initiée et organisée pour la première fois en juin 2000 par l’ADEPAR (Association pour le Développement de Paimpol et sa Région). En 2003, la deuxième édition sera lancée le 1er juin avec un nouvel objectif : franchir le Cercle Polaire Arctique au solstice d’été et faire le tour de l’Islande.
The 2002 Rolex Miami Olympic Classes concluded today with all but one of nine Olympic and two Paralympic classes working in light-air races on Biscayne Bay. Though not the preference of the 400 plus sailors competing, 5-6 knot breezes were welcome after yesterday’s total lack of breeze, which led to cancellation of all racing. Only the Star (…)
Parti de Marseille le 21 janvier dernier, le maxi-catamaran Orange a fait son entrée ce midi dans la rade de Brest, aux alentours de 12H30. Un convoyage d’entraînement de 2500 milles qui a permis de tester un bateau en parfait état et un équipage tout fraîchement recruté. Dès son arrivée à Brest, Bruno Peyron a annoncé que le 13e homme à bord (…)
Première épreuve du circuit international de monotypes, le rendez-vous de la PRIMO CUP accueille chaque année sur les deux premiers week-ends de février, une flotte impressionnante de monotypes. L’an dernier, ils étaient 179 bateaux venus participer à cette épreuve organisée par le Yacht Club de Monaco.
La construction du monocoque d’Elie Canivenc se poursuit à Caen. La coque à bouchains est assemblée. Pour fixer les couples et poser le pont, la coque a été mise à l’endroit. Une étape sensible car la moindre erreur peut réduire à néant des mois de travail.
The champagne bottles are opened at the base in Viaduct Harbour in Auckland. Magnus Holmberg, helmsman in Victory Challenge, has at this moment received the message that he and his colleagues Stefan Rahm, Lars Linger and Magnus Augustson are appointed the Sailors of the Year 2001. The Swedish America‚s Cup-challenge’s whole crew is present and (…)