World Speed Sailing Record

Syroco's #1 challenge is to design a supercavitating hydrofoil that won't produce shuddering instability

Marine

Two radically new kiteboats hope to smash the speed sailing record

Two teams, Switzerland's SP80 and France's Syroco, are taking aim at the world speed sailing record in 2022, with a pair of thoroughly remarkable kiteboats that both teams believe can smash previous records, targeting top speeds up to 80 knots.

Antoine Albeau set a new world record of 53.27 knots at this year's Lüderitz Speed Challenge

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Albeau sets new world windsurfing record at Luderitz Speed Challenge

In 2012, we watched the sailing speed record world explode, with a raft of world records coming out of that year's Lüderitz Speed Challenge and surrounding Namibian waters. This year's event saw one of those big 2012 records fall.

Paul Larsen in the Vestas Sailrocket 2 records 59.38 knots (68.3 mph - 110 km/h) on Walvis Bay, Namibia. Meanwhile at the Luderitz Speed Challenge, sailboarders broke more than a dozen speed sailing records with Antoine Albeau recording 52.05 knots (59.9 mph - 96.4 km/h).

Marine

Sailrocket runs 65.45 knots (75 mph) to smash World Speed Sailing Record

The outright world speed sailing record was smashed this afternoon (November 24) by Paul Larsen in the Vestas Sailrocket 2 with the astonishing time of 65.45 knots (75 mph - 121 km/h)