The V.O 60, X-Yachts X4.0, and Beneteau Oceanis 30.1 are great examples of fast monohull boats. For multihull boats, Rapido 60 (Trimaran), Dragonfly 40 (Trimaran), and ICE Cat 61 (Catamaran) are some of the fastest in that category. The list can go on when you are talking about specialized performance boats, foiling boats, and even windsurfers.
World's fastest sailboat: Two wild designs hit the water for testing
The current world sailing speed record has stood for a little over a decade at 65.37 knots (75.23 mph/121.06 km/h), set by Paul Larsen in the Vestas Sailrocket II back in 2012. There's a reason ...
Speed sailing record
Speed sailing records are sanctioned, since 1972, by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC). Records are measured either by average speed over a specified distance or by total distance traveled during a specified time interval. ... "Sovereign of the Seas", 1852, 258 ft, the fastest and longest ship yet built when she was launched in New ...
The race to create the world's fastest sail boat
For more than eight years, the world sailing speed record has remained unbroken. In November 2012, Australian Paul Larsen reached 65.45 knots (or 121 kilometers per hour/75 mph) in his Vesta ...
Fastest sailboats: The teams aiming to break 80 knots
The performance on the 24th smashed it beyond all expectations though, a gloriously windy day that saw Sailrocket 2 deliver a 65.45 knot average officially becoming the world's fastest sailboat.
SP80 Aims to Break Fastest Sailboat World Record; See Photos
The SP80 boat Courtesy of SP80. Company SP80 is trying to break the world record for the fastest sailboat. The fastest sailboat speed is currently 65.45 knots — SP80 is gunning for 80 knots, or ...
The IMOCA 60 Malizia-Seaexplorer is the world's fastest monohull, having set a blistering 24-hour record of 641.08 nautical miles while competing in The Ocean Race transatlantic leg. Followers ...
Sp80 Presents: the Boat Designed to Break the World Sailing Speed
FROM CONCEPT TO REALITYAfter our concept for the world sailing speed record, it's time to unveil the real boat! If the vision remains the same, our boat is s...
SP80: the Swiss challenge to smash the current world sailing speed
To break the world sailing speed record in 2022 and bring it back to Europe. This record is currently detained by the Australian Paul Larsen and his project Vestas Sailrocket 2. He achieved 65.45 knots (121.1km/h) as average speed on the 500m track. SP80 plans to go much further by achieving 80knots (148km/h) using a boat with shaped hulls ...
Syroco: Radical design aiming to set a new speed record
As with the current fastest sailboat in the world, Vestas Sailrocket 2, the team is looking into supercavitating foils - clearly an essential part of the project should they achieve their goal ...
Sailrocket runs 65.45 knots (75 mph) to smash World Speed Sailing Record
The first Vestas Sailrocket became the fastest sailing boat on the planet on December 3, 2008 with a 500 meter average of 47.366 knots, though it was still shy of the outright speed sailing record ...
How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
L aunched in 1869, the Cutty Sark was the fastest sailing ship of its time. These days the clipper is a London tourist attraction. In its prime, when it dashed across the world carrying tea from ...
Fastest Sailing Boat in the World by Swiss Engineers
The world-record sailing speed is currently 121kph. A group of engineers based in Switzerland want to set a new record of 150kph! And their invention could revolutionise freight transport.
Water speed record
The actual Spirit of Australia in which Ken Warby set the world water speed record in 1978 on Blowering Dam, New South Wales, Australia, on display in the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney. The world unlimited Water Speed Record is the officially recognised fastest speed achieved by a water-borne vehicle, irrespective of propulsion method. The current unlimited record is 511.11 km/h (317.59 ...
World's Fastest Sailboat: Quantum Leap
But Vestas SailRocket also made its mark. The same day as the backflip, SailRocket became the world's fastest boat, as opposed to board, at a speed of 47.3 knots. The following season Larsen and ...
Fastest boat: The current holder and contenders for the world water
The current title of world's fastest boat belongs to Spirit of Australia, which recorded a two-way average top speed of 317.6mph (551.1 km/h) on Blowering Dam, NSW in 1978. Piloted by the late great Ken Warby, this homebuilt wooden speed machine was the first boat to break the 300mph and 500km/h barriers. Warby, who passed away in early 2023 ...
Sailing Speed Records
The first officially recognized 24-hour speed run was by the clipper ship Lightning in 1854, when it sailed 436 miles in a day at an average speed of 18.2 knots. Later that year, the American clipper Champion of the Seas logged a day averaging 19.5 knots, a feat that remained the fastest day on record for 130 years.
Fastest yacht: The giant record breakers
Skorpios has been built with the express brief to break offshore records as the world's fastest yacht. Her recent win in the 2021 Fastnet Race - only weeks after hitting the water for the ...
Always On
It's called L'Hydroptere and the French concept sailboat -- with its marine style wings -- basically flies on the water. CNET's Molly Wood meets Alain Thebau...
Sailing a record slayer
Exclusive: full tour of the ClubSwan 125 'Skorpios'. Toby Hodges sails aboard on the eve of the Fastnet Race, for which it will be the largest entrant ever. ...
The Fastest Monohull Sailboat In The World
Media Platforms Design Team. The fastest monohull sailboat in the world is a needle-nosed ocean racer called V.O.60. It was designed by Bruce Farr, and is capable of 36 knots. That's 41.4 mph ...
Fastest Boats in the World
120 to 150 MPH In this speed range, buyers still have both V-bottom and catamaran options. On the V-bottom side, Cigarette Racing Team offers three models—the 39 Top Gun, the 42 Tiger and the 50 Marauder—that can fill the bill if powered by Mercury Racing 1550/1350 power-adjustable engines, or Mercury Racing 1350 engines. Though Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats also offers a host of sit ...
15 Fastest Boats In The World
Outerlimits Power Boats has a large selection of high-speed power boats. The SV-50, SV-52, SL-44, SL-52, and even catamarans like the 43CAT and 48CAT are among their fastest boats. One of their quickest speedboats is the SV-52. It was made to work well at high speeds and is known for its smooth ride and soft landings, even in rough and choppy ...
5 Fastest Submarines in 2024: The World's Speediest Underwater Titans
5. Vanguard-Class Submarine. Once the greatest naval power in the world, the British Royal Navy today is a shadow of its former glory. Nevertheless, the British still possess some capabilities ...
Fastest cars in the world by top speed, 0-60 and quarter mile
Still a classic: the quarter-mile. In the United States, drag racing began as an underground pastime on the dry lake beds of California, and by the 1930s, quarter-mile speeds were topping 100 mph ...
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The V.O 60, X-Yachts X4.0, and Beneteau Oceanis 30.1 are great examples of fast monohull boats. For multihull boats, Rapido 60 (Trimaran), Dragonfly 40 (Trimaran), and ICE Cat 61 (Catamaran) are some of the fastest in that category. The list can go on when you are talking about specialized performance boats, foiling boats, and even windsurfers.
The current world sailing speed record has stood for a little over a decade at 65.37 knots (75.23 mph/121.06 km/h), set by Paul Larsen in the Vestas Sailrocket II back in 2012. There's a reason ...
Speed sailing records are sanctioned, since 1972, by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC). Records are measured either by average speed over a specified distance or by total distance traveled during a specified time interval. ... "Sovereign of the Seas", 1852, 258 ft, the fastest and longest ship yet built when she was launched in New ...
For more than eight years, the world sailing speed record has remained unbroken. In November 2012, Australian Paul Larsen reached 65.45 knots (or 121 kilometers per hour/75 mph) in his Vesta ...
The performance on the 24th smashed it beyond all expectations though, a gloriously windy day that saw Sailrocket 2 deliver a 65.45 knot average officially becoming the world's fastest sailboat.
The SP80 boat Courtesy of SP80. Company SP80 is trying to break the world record for the fastest sailboat. The fastest sailboat speed is currently 65.45 knots — SP80 is gunning for 80 knots, or ...
The IMOCA 60 Malizia-Seaexplorer is the world's fastest monohull, having set a blistering 24-hour record of 641.08 nautical miles while competing in The Ocean Race transatlantic leg. Followers ...
FROM CONCEPT TO REALITYAfter our concept for the world sailing speed record, it's time to unveil the real boat! If the vision remains the same, our boat is s...
To break the world sailing speed record in 2022 and bring it back to Europe. This record is currently detained by the Australian Paul Larsen and his project Vestas Sailrocket 2. He achieved 65.45 knots (121.1km/h) as average speed on the 500m track. SP80 plans to go much further by achieving 80knots (148km/h) using a boat with shaped hulls ...
As with the current fastest sailboat in the world, Vestas Sailrocket 2, the team is looking into supercavitating foils - clearly an essential part of the project should they achieve their goal ...
The first Vestas Sailrocket became the fastest sailing boat on the planet on December 3, 2008 with a 500 meter average of 47.366 knots, though it was still shy of the outright speed sailing record ...
L aunched in 1869, the Cutty Sark was the fastest sailing ship of its time. These days the clipper is a London tourist attraction. In its prime, when it dashed across the world carrying tea from ...
The world-record sailing speed is currently 121kph. A group of engineers based in Switzerland want to set a new record of 150kph! And their invention could revolutionise freight transport.
The actual Spirit of Australia in which Ken Warby set the world water speed record in 1978 on Blowering Dam, New South Wales, Australia, on display in the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney. The world unlimited Water Speed Record is the officially recognised fastest speed achieved by a water-borne vehicle, irrespective of propulsion method. The current unlimited record is 511.11 km/h (317.59 ...
But Vestas SailRocket also made its mark. The same day as the backflip, SailRocket became the world's fastest boat, as opposed to board, at a speed of 47.3 knots. The following season Larsen and ...
The current title of world's fastest boat belongs to Spirit of Australia, which recorded a two-way average top speed of 317.6mph (551.1 km/h) on Blowering Dam, NSW in 1978. Piloted by the late great Ken Warby, this homebuilt wooden speed machine was the first boat to break the 300mph and 500km/h barriers. Warby, who passed away in early 2023 ...
The first officially recognized 24-hour speed run was by the clipper ship Lightning in 1854, when it sailed 436 miles in a day at an average speed of 18.2 knots. Later that year, the American clipper Champion of the Seas logged a day averaging 19.5 knots, a feat that remained the fastest day on record for 130 years.
Skorpios has been built with the express brief to break offshore records as the world's fastest yacht. Her recent win in the 2021 Fastnet Race - only weeks after hitting the water for the ...
It's called L'Hydroptere and the French concept sailboat -- with its marine style wings -- basically flies on the water. CNET's Molly Wood meets Alain Thebau...
Exclusive: full tour of the ClubSwan 125 'Skorpios'. Toby Hodges sails aboard on the eve of the Fastnet Race, for which it will be the largest entrant ever. ...
Media Platforms Design Team. The fastest monohull sailboat in the world is a needle-nosed ocean racer called V.O.60. It was designed by Bruce Farr, and is capable of 36 knots. That's 41.4 mph ...
120 to 150 MPH In this speed range, buyers still have both V-bottom and catamaran options. On the V-bottom side, Cigarette Racing Team offers three models—the 39 Top Gun, the 42 Tiger and the 50 Marauder—that can fill the bill if powered by Mercury Racing 1550/1350 power-adjustable engines, or Mercury Racing 1350 engines. Though Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats also offers a host of sit ...
Outerlimits Power Boats has a large selection of high-speed power boats. The SV-50, SV-52, SL-44, SL-52, and even catamarans like the 43CAT and 48CAT are among their fastest boats. One of their quickest speedboats is the SV-52. It was made to work well at high speeds and is known for its smooth ride and soft landings, even in rough and choppy ...
5. Vanguard-Class Submarine. Once the greatest naval power in the world, the British Royal Navy today is a shadow of its former glory. Nevertheless, the British still possess some capabilities ...
Still a classic: the quarter-mile. In the United States, drag racing began as an underground pastime on the dry lake beds of California, and by the 1930s, quarter-mile speeds were topping 100 mph ...