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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 Record #sailingrecord by the biggest margin in the records history [1]. Paul larsen averaged 59.23 knots over the record (...) -
Oracle Racing
Photos : ORACLE TEAM USA 17 sailing and flying
On Monday, ORACLE TEAM USA 17 spent Day 4 sailing on a sunny San Francisco day. here are Guilain Grenier’s last images. -
Foilers
Rob Douglas, Paul Cayard, James Spithill and Paul Campbell James sailed aboard l’Hydroptère
l’Hydroptère DCNS arrived in San Francisco Bay a month ago, when the America’s World Series regattas resumed between the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. During several weeks, the flying sailors shared the technology of their "flying carpet" with the American public and their training sessions with guests on board. A few (...) -
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 Record #sailingrecord (Los Angeles - Honolulu), set the record Record #sailingrecord around the legendary San Francisco Bay yesterday, 31 August (...) -
Moth
Joshua McKnight wins 2012 Zhik Nautica Moth World Championships
The 2012 Zhik Nautica Moth World Championships went down to the wire and were decided in the very last race in fabulous conditions. Joshua McKnight kept his calm, sailed nearly flawlessly and prevailed over fellow countryman Scott Babbage with two bullets in three races. Rob Gough had a very good last day and snatched third place overall from (...) -
North Pacific record
First test flight in Los Angeles for l’Hydroptère DCNS
On Sunday afternoon, l’Hydroptère DCNS carried out her first sea trials in the United States. The flying trimaran initially put in some tacks offshore of Long Beach before heading towards Catalina Island. It proved to be a gentle first outing in perfect weather (...) -
L’Hydroptère
Jean Le Cam : "l’Hydroptère is a nervous machine"
l’Hydroptère DCNS, the French¨ flying trimaran¨ of Alain Thébault, has just completed her last trials off the La Ciotat (France)coast and is ready to leave for Los Angeles where she will attempt her first offshore record Record #sailingrecord . -
Kiteboat Project
Videos : Jumping waves in Maui on the Trifoiler
For the last day of the year, here are two videos realized by crazy Americans who decided to go surfing and jumping waves in Maui aboard a Trifoiler modified. With its kite sail, they easily surf Surf #Surf around the shore. -
P28 Gonet & Cie
The first foiler with π foils and profile sail set sails in Switzerland
The epitome of avant-gardism through the design of her structural rig, in association with her inverted π-shaped hydrofoils, today the “P28 Gonet & Cie” monohull reveals her lines as well as the essence which colours the project. -
Launching
Alain Thébault : "we will be able to fly over Lake Geneva"
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 (...)