Photo assignment for the Fédération Française de Voile.
Posts tagged weather
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Nov 14
Nov 14
Start of the Route du Rhum Destination Guadeloupe 2014
Saint Malo, Brittany, France 48º42’04″N 2º18’00″W
91 skippers started the tenth edition of La Route du Rhum crossing the line to begin the 3542 Nms solo Transatlantic passage from Saint-Malo to Pointe-a- Pitre in Guadeloupe.
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Sep 14
Sep 14
49er and 49erFX 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships
Santander, Cantabria, Spain 43º28’54″N 03º45'05″W
Photo assignment for the International 49er Class Association & Seiko Watch Corporation.
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Jul 14
Jul 14
“HAPPY” with loick Peyron
La Trinité-sur-Mer / Le Pouliguen, Brittany, France 47º16’50″N 02º36'46″W
Loick Peyron has launched his Walter Greene trimaran and headed out for his first sail preparing to take part in “La Route du Rhum”. ‘Happy’ is the sister ship of Mike Birch’s famous Olympus.
“First training session on “HAPPY”, nothing but happiness. Small is beautiful !
So far so good. and very impatient to start my 49th crossing of the Atlantic.”
Look at that : this is Happy in Christophe’s eyes !! ”
Loick vient de mettre a l’eau son plan Walter Greene “Happy”; sister-ship du célèbre trimaran de Mike Birch Olympus. Il s’est élancé pour sa première sortie en mer dans la cadre de sa préparation à “La Route du Rhum”.
“Première séance d’entraînement sur “HAPPY”, rien que du bonheur!
Pas besoin d’être grand pour être beau. Jusqu’ici tout va bien, je suis impatient de débuter ma 49eme traversée de l’Atlantique.
C’est simple comme ça le bonheur dans les yeux de Christophe Launay !!.”
Loick Peyron
Photo assignment for Loick Peyron.
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May 14
May 14
Sarah Steyaert and Julie Bossard 49er FX Olympic Class
Marseille, France 43º16’08″N 5º21'25″E
Sarah Steyaert and Julie Bossard campaigning to represent France in the 49er FX class, the new Olympic Women’s double-handed skiff class.
This is a modified version of the male high performance skiff that has been sailed in the olympics since the Sydney games in 2000.
This type of boat really encompasses the spirit of the olympics with athleticism, balance, skill and daring!Support them and join their journey to bring home an Olympic Medal from Rio in 2016.
“It is as hard to describe the fascination of the sea as to explain the beauty of a woman.
For, to each man, either it is self-evident, or no argument can help him see it.”
Claud Worth, 1926
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Jan 14
Jan 14
Le Grand-Bornand
Le Grand-Bornand, France 45º56’45″N 6º25’48″E
“The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.”
Reinhold Messner
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Jan 14
Jan 14
2014
Global
“If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in water.”
Loren Eiseley,
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Writer
Protect our water, our Future.
VIDEO: http://bit.ly/SunTjd
MUSIC: YGO SENTRIG ( SOUNDCLOUD.COM/YGOSENTRIG )
EDITING: GILLES MORELLE ( GILLESMORELLE.COM )
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Sep 13
Sep 13
THE 2013 SEIKO 49ER AND 49ERFX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Marseille, France 43º15’54″N 5º21’39″E
The 2013 Seiko 49er and 49erFX World Championships, 150 skiffs – 28 nations Two World Championship Titles.
http://49er.org/2013-world-championships/
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Apr 13
Apr 13
Attempt to break the absolute sailing record of the Corsica Island Tour – Yvan Bourgnon – Joris Cocaud
Porticcio, Corsica, France 41º53’33″N 8º47’43″E
Attempt to break the absolute sailing record of the Corsica (Known as the Beauty Island) Island Tour currently owned by the “TP 52 Spirit of Malouen VI”, a 52-feet-boat, in 30 hours 15 minutes & 18 seconds, on a Nacra F20 Carbon, a 20-feet-beach catamaran.
Photo assignment for Atlantis Television.
