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Vendée Globe
Flying François Gabart smashes 24hr solo sailing record at 545.3 miles, average speed 22.3
Flying François Gabart stepped up his Vendée Globe challenge with an unprecedented display of lightning fast sailing in the middle of the Indian Ocean today. -
Lüderitz Speed Challenge
Windsurfing session in Namibia closes on with 50+ knots records
The first ever windsurfing World Record was set by Pascal Maka, who clocked 38.86 knots in 1986. This was bettered nine times before Antoine Albeau took the record to 49.09 knots in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Mer in the South of France in March 2008. -
Vendée Globe
Faster than Gabart, Jean-Pierre Dick sails 502 nm in 24 hours
Yesterday, between 4am GMT Friday 30th November to 4am GMT Saturday 1st December Jean-Pierre Dick (Virbac Paprec 3) travelled from point to point, 498.80 miles in twenty-four hours, averaging speeds of 20.8 knots. This breaks the record held previously by Alex Thomson in 2003 and, also the record set the day before, subject to ratification, by (...) -
Vendée Globe
Gabart covered 482.91 miles in 24hrs and broke Thomson’s record
Yesterday, between 12pm GMT Thursday 29th to 12pm GMT Friday 30th November François Gabart (MACIF), travelled from point to point, 482.91 miles in twenty-four hours, averaging speeds of 20.1 knots. This breaks the record held previously by Alex Thomson in 2003. Confirmation of the record is subject to the WSSRC (...) -
Speed
The Vestas Sailrocket 2 broke the miles record and averages 65+ knots on 500m
"VSR2 performed exactly as predicted by the Sailrocket design team of Malcolm Barnsley and Chris Hornzee Jones at AEROTROPE. The spec for the boat was to be able to hit 65 knots in 26 knots of wind in order to average around 60 knots," wrote the team on their video page. And they did better on November 24 : "On the GT-31 gps 67.74 and an (...) -
Speed
Video : Vestas SailRocket 2 at 63 knots
On the 16/11/12 VESTAS Sailrocket 2 set out on it’s 13th run for this session Walvis Bay Namibia. In moderate conditions with around 25 knots of wind average... VSR2 smashed the previous Outright world record by the biggest margin in the records history [1]. Paul larsen averaged 59.23 knots over the record 500 meter course and peaked at (...) -
Lüderitz Speed Challenge
Anders Bringdal broke the 50 knots barrier twice before Antoine Albeau pushes to 50.62 knots
After the promising previous days, everyone felt that the 50 knots barrier break cannot be far. It’s today, on the 4th race day, that this never-before-broken barrier was smashed! As records kept tumbling almost with every run this afternoon, some of the speeds still need to be confirmed by the Time (...) -
Speed Classic
L’Hydroptère DCNS has set the nautical mile speed sailing record in San Francisco
The french giant foiler, l’Hydroptère, which arrived in California in July in a bid to secure the Transpacific Record (Los Angeles - Honolulu), set the record around the legendary San Francisco Bay yesterday, 31 August 2012. -
Kitesurf
Video : Bruno Sroka has broken the Channel Crossing Record
Bruno Sroka has broken the Channel Crossing Record of Manu Bertin on May 17, 2012, by sailing 186 km across the English Channel in exactly 5 hours. -
Artemis Challenge
MOD70s Foncia and Musandam-OmanSail break Round the Island Record in the Artemis Challenge
The Artemis Challenge proved to be a record breaking* race around the Island for the MOD70s Foncia and Musandam-OmanSail today. Race management yesterday made a last minute change to the sailing instructions to allow the MOD70s to race for the record, due to the strong weather forecast. Starting at 10:00 BST, on Ladies Day at Aberdeen Asset (...)