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Mini-Transat La Boulangère: Ian Lipinski becomes the second double champion of the event
If you needed proof about how well you can control and understand your boat, you just had to sit back and watch the last miles of Ian Lipinski’s race this morning between the islet of Cabri and the finish line of the Mini-Transat Mini-Transat #MiniTransat La Boulangère. After a final gybe, the skipper of Griffon.fr hurtled along under (...) -
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Mini-Transat: 84 competitors expected on the start line on 1 October 2017
Race after race, the Mini Transat has always maintained its popularity. For this 2017 edition, entrusted to the Collectif Rochelais pour la Mini Transat, the race will host a full contingent as the number of applicants signed up for the adventure already exceeds the 84 places made available by the organiser. Unquestionably, it is this loyalty (...) -
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MARTINIQUE SURF PRO 2015 : Victory for the Portuguese surfer Frederico Morais
Top class world surfers, the best waves possible, huge crowds enjoying the show. Everything came together on Sunday at Basse-Pointe for an exciting final day at the Martinique Surf Surf #Surf Pro. In the end, it was the Portuguese surfer Frederico Morais (24), who won the only Caribbean leg in the Qualifying Series (QS) in 2016. He won the (...) -
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Voiles de Saint Barth : Proteus won the Maxi yachts rankings
Saturday’s final race at Les Voiles de St. Barth was riveting to watch, especially during the first beat and at the finish. The wind, like yesterday, was light, but unlike yesterday, just strong enough for officials to actually get off a race, and that pleased the hundreds of sailors competing here. Going into today, which was the fifth (...) -
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Transat Saint-Barth - Port la Forêt : Sébastien Josse takes line honours
On crossing the finish line off the Linuen Est mark, at the entrance of Port la Forêt harbour, this Wednesday 16 December, at 20hr 18mn 17s GMT, the skipper of IMOCA60 Edmond de Rothschild won the transatlantic race in style after dominating proceedings from beginning to end, only giving up the head of the race for the first six hours to SMA (...) -
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Mini Transat - Îles de Guadeloupe : 57 competitors out of the 72 who started the race have arrived
This time, it really is all over. The arrival of Yuri Firsov, the last competitor still at sea, let the curtain fall on the Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe. Of course, there will still be some more backstage encounters and stories to be told for the umpteenth time, as well as disappointments to digest and triumphs to savour, but the Mini (...) -
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Mini-Transat : Ian Lipinski, 2nd to Pointe-à-Pitre and winner of the serie division
A second place finish behind Julien Pulvé was enough for Ian Lipinski to take the overall victory in the Series boat class of the Mini Transat Îles de Guadeloupe. -
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Mini-Transat : Julien Pulvé first series boat arrived to Point-à-Pitre
Julien Pulvé has won the second leg of the Mini Transat Îles de Guadeloupe after crossing first the finish line in Pointe-à-Pitre, at 02:06:15 (French Time) on Sunday November 15th. -
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Frédéric Denis : "It still hasn’t sunk in that I have won the Mini Transat"
Arriving in the small hours of the Guadeloupean night, the Nautipark skipper finishes as the unchallenged winner of the Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe. Despite an unscheduled stop on the outskirts of St. Francis, following a chance encounter with a fishing trawler line, Frédéric Denis was able to calmly finish the stage head and shoulders (...) -
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2015 RORC Caribbean 600 : Stories from the Race [video]
The RORC Caribbean 600 started from Antigua on Monday 23rd February 2015. The 600nm course circumnavigates 11 Caribbean Islands starting from Fort Charlotte, English Harbour, Antigua and heads north as far as St Martin and south to Guadeloupe taking in Barbuda, Nevis, St Kitts, Saba and St Barth’s, finishing back in (...)
Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Barth...