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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.
Team New Zealand’s Dean Barker, will be fighting it out with an awesome line-up, one of whom he could face on the starting line of the America’s Cup in a year’s time, when he tries to achieve an unprecedented second successful defence of the Cup.
Une équipe de 80 personnes est réunie sur la base de Lorient, avec pour objectifs : progresser et atteindre une efficacité maximale avant le début de la compétition à Auckland en octobre prochain.
Slaloming between the islands, schussing along the edges of highs... the ’no faults’ descent of the North Atlantic is drawing to a close for the maxi-catamaran Orange in site of the Doldrums. The wind is dying, the sky is clouding over, and the speedometer is falling to more ’normal’ standards... this is the great ocean toll plaza, the moment (…)
Slaloms entre les îles, glisse tout schuss en bordure des hautes pressions... la descente sans faute de l’Atlantique Nord arrive à son terme pour le maxi catamaran Orange en vue du pot au noir. Le vent faiblit, le ciel se voile, le speedomètre rentre dans la norme... c’est le grand péage océanique, le moment où l’on paie pour voir. L’Equateur (…)
Le samedi 9 mars à 17h 30 (heure française), le coup d’envoi de la cinquième étape Rio de Janeiro – Miami sera donné pour un parcours nord-sud entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Tropique du Cancer, le long du continent américain, soit 18 jours de course du Brésil à la Floride, où les bateaux sont attendus vers le 27 mars.
Since returning to the Northern Hemisphere, Geronimo has been making good headway towards her destination in Brittany. The task now facing the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young – Schneider Electric team is to reach Brest as quickly as possible and get started on diagnosing and repairing the problems encountered with the boat’s steering gear at high (…)
The new trimaran in the port of La Rochelle. Note the rudders (in orange). Photo : Bernard Gergaud.
Fresh out of the Mag Océa yard, the brand new trimaran Bayer has just been launched in La Rochelle. In a few days she will be confronting the ocean waves for the first time on her sail up to her homeport of La Trinité-sur-Mer where she will be officially named on March 29th.
Bayer dans le port de La Rochelle. Noter les safrans relevables (en orange). Photo Bernard Gergaud.
Tout juste sorti du chantier Mag Océa, le tout nouveau trimaran Bayer vient d’être mis à l’eau à La Rochelle. Il va désormais devoir affronter pour la première fois les vagues de l’océan, afin de rejoindre dans les prochains jours son port d’attache à La Trinité-sur-Mer où il sera baptisé le 29 mars prochain.
An instant speed of 31.3 knots at 1000 this morning, 519.26 miles in 24 hours at the 1300 position report... As hoped for yesterday, the maxi-catamaran Orange has picked up a slight shift to the east in the trades, which has enabled her on the one hand to gain speed but above all gain some westing. So Bruno Peyron and his 12 men are now on a (…)