Speed
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Land Speed Record
Emirates Team New Zealand and Land speed pilot Glenn Ashby have sailed ‘Horonuku’, their wind powered land speed world record Record #sailingrecord craft, faster than any previous records. ‘Horonuku’ named by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei meaning ‘gliding swiftly across the land’ did exactly (...)
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#Funboard
Antoine Albeau started to go over 51 knots on Monday during the LUDERITZ SPEED CHALLENGE 2015 event and was joined by Patrik Diethelm (ITA). At about that time, around 1.15pm, Karin Jaggi (29 World titles) pushed hard and broke the Female World Record Record #sailingrecord in Windsurfing with 46.31 kts! (Previously held by Zara Davis (UK) (...)
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#Luderitz
The forecast was very good to train, at the start of Race Day on Friday, and then with stronger winds averaging 30-35 knots with much stronger gusts up to 55 knots revealing rough conditions on Saturday. Then, Sunday has not been as strong as predicted (only 30 kts average when the forecast was showing 40). One race day has been achieved as (...)
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Lüderitz Speed Challenge
On this 23 October 2014, in Lüderitz, Namibia, will go down in the history books as Kite surfer Chris Ballois (France) has set a new World Record Record #sailingrecord for disabled riders, ratified by the WSSRC and ISAF-IFDS.
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Salt and Speed
Alexandre Caizergues shattered the World Sailing Speed Kitesurfing Record Record #sailingrecord over 500 metres with a blinding average of 56.62 knots in the "Salt and Speed" Volkswagen Transporter Arena located in Salin-de-Giraud, France. In so doing, he has improved on the previous record Record #sailingrecord set by American Rob (...)
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Moth European Championship
A few days ago 36 Moths from 9 countries (3 continents) arrived to the quick waters of Marsala, they are the crews taking part in the European Championship 2013 and came earlier to become familiar with the race course and complete the settings of their boats: all 6 different languages that can be heard on the parterre of the Sailing Club (...)
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Lüderitz Speed Challenge
The first ever windsurfing World Record Record #sailingrecord was set by Pascal Maka, who clocked 38.86 knots in 1986. This was bettered nine times before Antoine Albeau took the record Record #sailingrecord to 49.09 knots in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Mer in the South of France in March (...)
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Speed
"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 (...)
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Speed
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 (...)
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Lüderitz Speed Challenge
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 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 |