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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.
Bruno Peyron, skipper of the maxi-catamaran Orange with Gilles Chiorri (boat captain) and Yann Penfornis (one of the boat’s designers) and Eric Mas (Météo Consult) at his side has just announced at a press briefing in Vannes that he will be casting off this afternoon at about 1800 setting course for Ushant to cross the starting line of the (…)
Bruno Peyron, skipper du maxi-catamaran Orange entouré de Gilles Chiorri (boat captain), Yann Penfornis (architecte du bateau) et Eric Mas (Météo Consult), a annoncé lors d’un point presse à Vannes qu’il appareillera aux alentours de 18h00 pour mettre le cap sur Ouessant et prendre à nouveau le départ du Trophée Jules Verne demain dans la matinée.
Il y a un tout juste an, le 3 mars 2001 à Marseille, le maxi-catamaran Club Med franchissait en vainqueur la ligne d’arrivée de la première édition de The Race, au terme de 62 jours, 6 heures, 56 minutes et 33 secondes d’une navigation hors-norme. 27 408 milles (soit 50 760 Kms) avalés à la moyenne hallucinante de 18,3 noeuds... du jamais vu !
While the shore teams beaver away in the never-ending heat, preparing the race boats for the next leg of the Volvo Ocean Race to Miami, the race crews have been resting and relaxing. Some have returned home, but those remaining in the city of Rio de Janeiro have been out and about and making the most of this lively city.
The maxi-catamaran Orange’s capshrouds and shrouds, which they were still waiting on wednesday to be returned from the USA, have arrived and have cleared customs. Philippe Peche and Vladimir Dzalba Lyndis dispatched to Paris to collect them are now on the way back to Vannes with their precious load !
Early yesterday afternoon, the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Schneider Electric trimaran was already heading for the north-west point of Brazil, thanks to the light trade winds now blowing from the east-south-east.
Hier en début d’après-midi, le trimaran aux couleurs de Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Schneider Electric, grâce à des alizés légers d’est-sud-est, pointait déjà par le travers de la pointe nord-ouest du Brésil à environ 550 milles nautiques du continent sud-américain et glissait alors majestueusement sur les vagues de l’Atlantique sud à plus de (…)
Depuis plus d’une semaine, les équipages, après quelques jours d’un repos bien mérité, ont repris le collier pour préparer leur bateau pour la prochaine manche, l’étape Rio de Janeiro – Miami, dont le départ sera donné le samedi 9 mars.
En un temps record, le chantier naval Multiplast, constructeur des Jet Services, des sister-ships Club Med et Orange / Innovation Explorer ou encore de Geronimo et des deux derniers Class America français, a réparé le mât brisé du catamaran de Bruno Peyron.