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SeaSailSurfer of the month
SeaSailSurfer of November 2009 : Tanguy de Lamotte
Winner of the Solidaire du Chocolat
Wednesday 2 December 2009 –
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SeaSailSurfer of February 2009 : Michel Desjoyeaux
Double winner of the Vendée Globe. No surprise. The SeaSailSurfer of the month.is no one else than Michel Desjoyeaux, aka « the Professor ». Foncia’ skipper has dominated the race around the world and becomes the first one to win twice the Vendée Globe.
The generation of this first decade of the XXIth century will be the Desjoyeaux generation as the Breton sailor form Port-La-Forêt has won every single-handed race from La Solitaire du Figaro to the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum .
In the previous generation, two men had won two solo round the world race. Philippe Jeantot and Christophe Auguin had won the BOC Challenge (actual Around Alone). But these round the world races had few stop-overs when the Vendée Globe is non-stop. Auguin himself did won three round the world races as he also won the Vendée Globe in 1995-1996.
For the 2000 generation, Desjoyeaux will be the lightroom and he is the SeaSailSurfer of February.
Photo ThMartinez/Sea&Co / www.thmartinez.com
SeaSailsurf barometer of the month
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Armel Le Cléac’h | The Jackal made a discret race but came back to Les Sables d’Olonne in second place. |
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Sam Davies | Arrived 3rd, Classified 4th. Great race for the Brit skipper. An example. |
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Bruno Troublé | He made live again, for a while, the Cup in New Zealand. |
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Loïck Peyron | Gitana 80 sold, he has left the Rothschild’s team. |
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Russell Coutts | The Kiwi lost his final against Baird and Alinghi… |
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Roland Jourdain | Bilou is the big looser of the race. Second, he has to stop in the Azores with no keel left. |
Also in this section
Poll : SeaSailSurfer of 2008 : Francisco Lobato
2008 SeaSailSurfers : SeaSailSurfer of December 2008 : Michel Desjoyeaux
SeaSailSurfers of 2007 : SeaSailSurfer of december : Stephanie Gilmore
SeaSailSurfer of the month : Armel Tripon and Erwan Tymen SeaSailSurfers of October 2003
