Speed
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Vitesse
On Tuesday, the french kitesurfer Alexandre Caizergues has beaten the absolute speed sailing record Record #sailingrecord with 54,10 knots (100,19 km/h) over the 500 metters of the Luderitz channel in Namibia. By the way he improves l’Hydroptère previous record Record #sailingrecord of 51,36 (...)
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Speed
L’Hydroptère.ch has been launched by helicopter today in Saint Sulpice (Switzerland).
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Launching
Alain Thébault, founder and pilot of the Hydroptère project and Jean-Mathieu Bourgeon, scientific manager of the project, accompanied by their Design Team, unveiled on Monday their new prototype, l’Hydroptère.ch, a 35ft catamaran at the Decision SA shipyard in Ecublens (Switzerland) which will soon be launched on Lake (...)
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Speed
The experimental Mirabaud LX sailboat, version 2010, has recently been put through its first trial runs. Thomas Jundt’s foiler, which underwent improvements over the winter, is now poised to set new records on Lake Geneva and participate in the Weymouth Speed Week next (...)
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Vidéo
From Eric Tabarly’s Tornado the the 500m record Record #sailingrecord , this is the official video of Alain Thébault’s foiler.
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Speed record
Two monthes after the outright record Record #sailingrecord over 500 meters, l’Hydroptère, the 60 feet foiler has conclued its mediterrannean record Record #sailingrecord breaking campaign with another record. The fastest sailboat of the world make an impressive 50,17 knots over one nautical mile ( 92,91 km/h). Alain Thébault and (...)
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Video
What is this? A new extract of Scream? A military trainning? Or a kitesurfer protecting his face from 50 knots gusts full of sand? Find the answer in this video where you can watch the creazy kitesurfer preparing for e revenge over the Hydroptère...
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500 meters record
Whilst making on Wednesday 7th the first ’full-on’ run of their 4th outright world speed sailing record Record #sailingrecord attempt, Paul Larsen had a main foil Foil #foil failure at the end of the run. This resulted in a loss of down force to react the up force of the inclined wing and Vestas Sailrocket took to the (...)
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500 meters record
L’Hydroptère has registered 51,36 knots of average speed over 500 meters on Friday 4 september, in the bay of Hyères in the South of France.
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Speed
The Hydrofoiler team announces on its site to have broken the 50 knots barrier dring speed sessions in Hyères in the South of France. It would have even improved its performances during the all day. The foil Foil #foil machine would have thus exceeded the 51 knots over 500 meters. A performance realized under the control of the WSSRC and (...)
Speed records, runs, 500 m record
Record
#sailingrecord
Historique 500 mètres
Vitesse |
Date |
Auteur |
Engin |
Lieu |
Commentaire |
65,45 nœuds |
novembre 2012 |
Paul Larsen - AUS |
Vestas Sailrocket 2 |
Namibie |
engin de vitesse |
55,65 nœuds |
octobre 2010 |
Rob Douglas |
Kitesurf
Kitesurf
#Kitesurf
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Namibie |
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50,43 nœuds |
octobre 2010 |
Charlotte Consorti |
Kitesurf
Kitesurf
#Kitesurf
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Namibie |
1ère femme au-delà des 50 nœuds / Record
Record
#sailingrecord
du monde féminin |
54,10 nœuds |
12 octobre 2010 |
Alexandre Caizergues |
Kitesurf |
Namibie |
1er homme au-delà des 100 km/h |
51,36 nœuds |
6 septembre 2009 |
l’hydroptère / A.Thébault |
Foiler 18 m |
France |
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50,98 nœuds |
14 novembre 2009 |
Alexandre Caizergues |
Kitesurf |
Namibie |
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50,57 nœuds |
octobre 2008 |
Alexandre Caizergue |
Kitesurfs |
Namibie |
1er homme au-delà des 50 nœuds |
49,09 nœuds |
5 mars X |
Antoine Albeau |
Planche à voile |
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46,82 nœuds |
Automne 2004 |
Finian Maynard |
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Planche à voile |
Bat l’engin Yellow Pages |
38,86 nœuds |
1986 |
Pascal Maka |
Planche à voile |
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Les planchistes prennent le record |