Speed sailing information

Speed sailing is the art of sailing a craft as fast as possible over a predetermined route, and having its overall or peak speed recorded and accredited...

Speed sailing records are sanctioned, since 1972, by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC). Records are measured either by average speed over...

developments. Steam allowed scheduled services that ran at higher average speeds than sailing vessels. Large improvements in fuel economy allowed steam to progressively...

A sailing hydrofoil, hydrofoil sailboat, or hydrosail is a sailboat with wing-like foils mounted under the hull. As the craft increases its speed the...

The Vestas Sailrocket was built to capture the sailing speed record competing in the B-class for 150 to 235 square feet of sail. It is piloted by the...

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Record >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News". 28 July 2016. Blue Riband Passage sailing record Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race Speed sailing record Transatlantic...

The World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) was founded in 1972, initially to ratify records at the inaugural Weymouth Speed Week held every year since...

Racing Congress (ORC) World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) International Radio Sailing Association (IRSA) World Sailing is responsible for administration...

the Lizard Lighthouse, UK. The records are homologated by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC). WSSRC rules state that qualifying round-the-world...

straps, harnesses and more stable sails. Windsurfing shattered the world speed sailing record. Windsurfing's retail momentum eventually slowed with the arrival...

a kiteboard in speed sailing records attempts. In 2008 Douglas broke the world speed sailing record on a kiteboard, hitting a top speed of 49.84 knots...

2009. Retrieved 13 July 2016. "VESTAS Sailrocket 2 Smashes Speed Record". Blue Water Sailing. 30 November 2012. Archived from the original on 17 August...

high-technology interpretations specifically designed for breaking speed-sailing records. The term "proa" originates from Early Modern English "prow"...

many extreme sailing projects. He led the 10-year project for the Vestas Sailrocket, which set new nautical mile and 500m world speed sailing records in...

tack and pick up sufficient speed to complete the maneuver. The span of the no-go zone depends on the efficiency of a sailing craft's sails and its resistance...

2005, Shreeve set a new world speed sailing record (A class) at 27.7 Knots (51.3 km/h) at Saintes Maries de la Mer Speed Canal. She topped this with a...

freestyle, wave-riding, and racing competitions. The sport held the speed sailing record, reaching 55.65 kn (103.06 km/h) before being eclipsed by the...

route, attempted by no-one and has been verified by the WSSRC (World Speed Sailing Record Council) as an official record. Azhar is currently based in Langkawi...

three to four times faster than the wind speed. A gust of wind is considered more beneficial in a land sailing race than a favorable windshift. A similar...

Yellow Pages Endeavour, or YPE, is an Australian sailboat designed for speed sailing, which held the outright 500 meter world record from October, 1993 to...

The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately...