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SeaSailSurfers of the year
Thomas Ruyant is the SeaSailSurfer of 2010
689 votes made the SeaSailsurfers of 2010. The male winner is Thomas Ruyant, winner of the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum 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 (...) -
Global Ocean Race
First all-female GOR team is confirmed
British yachtswoman, Hannah Jenner, has confirmed that her co-skipper for the double-handed, Class40, Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR) is German sailor, Anna-Maria Renken. Jenner and Renken are currently the only all-girl GOR team. -
SeaSailSurfer of the month
SeaSailSurfer of November 2010: Thomas Ruyant
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 Mini-Transat #MiniTransat , he has won the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum . He is the SeaSailSurfer of the (...) -
Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale
Franck Cammas & Franck-Yves Escoffier open the 9th Route
It was appropriate for the record Record #sailingrecord fleet of 85 skippers who set off from Saint Malo this afternoon on the ninth edition of the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum -La Banque Postale that the send off proved nearly perfect in every way. -
Route du Rhum
Conrad Colman enters the solo circuit
Conrad Colman is on a solo course in every sense. From a nation where the currency of sailing success is Olympic medals, Whitbread/Volvo wins, America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup triumphs, Colman, 26, is pushing ever further into the world of solo and short handed ocean (...) -
Route du Rhum
Solo sailors sail with crews 2 monthes before the Rhum
the start of th e Ruote du Rhim is in less than 60 days. This edition will be fabulous with the come back of the giants (the Ultime class) and the promising regattas in Imoca Imoca #IMOCA (60’ monohulls), Multi 50 and Class 40. But it is almost impossible to see these boats and their skippers sailing together on the same event. Happy (...) -
Mundial Class40
Gonzalo Botin is new Class40 world champ
The fleet is heading back to the port since no race can start after 3:00pm today. It is thus Gonzalo Botin on Tales who becomes World Champion of Class40 in 2010, 2 points ahead of Thierry Bouchard’s Mistral Loisirs - Pôle Santé Elior. Concise 2, 9 points behind the first boat, scores third. Destination Dunkerque with Thomas Ruyant (...) -
Class40
First Pogo 40S2 underwent a 180° inversion test
In the early evening of Monday14th June, Groupe Picoty - the first Finot-Conq Design Class40 Pogo S² from Structures Chantier Naval - successfully underwent a 180° inversion test at Bénodet in Brittany. This unassisted self-righting test with the two crew on board is a fundamental requirement of the double-handed Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (...) -
Normandy Channel Race
Ruyant - Leglatin take victory in the 1st NCR
It was this morning at 0752 GMT precisely when Thomas Ruyant and Tanguy Leglatin crossed the finish line of the very first edition of the Normandy Channel Race. They took victory aboard the Class 40 "Destination Dunkerque" after 6 days, 18 hours and 52 minutes of thrilling, high tension racing (averaging a speed Speed #speedsailing of 5.85 (...) -
Normandy Channel Race
Ruyant & Leglatin firsts to round Fastnet rock
On rounding Fastnet Rock to the South of Ireland this morning, Thomas Ruyant and Tanguy Leglatin also set a course back to France and Normandy. Indeed Normandy will now be the last remaining passage mark after Sylvie Viant, President of the Race Committee, signalled the removal of the Sept îles course passage in Brittany last night to the 8 (...)
Monocoques de LHT<12.18 m (jauge Class 40).