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a) he must be very poor. He can't afford a HeroPRO to film his friends...

b) That's why germany doesn't have such long straights on highways and no speed limit where it IS straight: you can't do that at speeds above 200km/h...  :D
 
btw: see the full video here:
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Wodka, bad tires, not enough speed controles, no T?V, not enough police in general and you end up like in the wild, wild east (in that case)... and now be sure, most of them did not even pay their insurance. Who's fucked? You, if you get hit by them...  :-[

 
What were they beating?

Pretty impessive considering there was fuck all wind, what 10-15kn max, 108 k on the water is pretty quick
 
The fastest average speed over 500 metres record. They actually peaked at 63 knots or 117kph at one point on that run. Wind was 25 knots so they were going roughly 2.5 times the windspeed. It got ratified by the WSSRC a cupla days ago (World Speed Sailing Record Council).

 
so it looks like they broke their own record again this week:-

Two days after finally smashing the Outright world speed sailing record, the Vestas Sailrocket 2 team decide to tackle the 'Nautical Mile' world record which was held by the mighty 'Hydroptere'. It was always going to be an interesting challenge for the VSR2 team as the speed course that they sail on in Walvis Bay, Namibia is defined by a beach which is exactly 1.04 miles long. This requires them to launch the boat out in more exposed waters and try and get up to as high a speed as they dare in rough water before they hit the start of the mile. At the end of the course they also fire out into rough water and have to bring the boat to a stop. It's hard on the boat. The beach is not straight but has a slight curve in it . The mile is measured by TRIMBLE GPS equipment in a straight line so pilot Paul Larsen needs to balance between sailing in close to the beach for the flat water... and sailing the straightest and hence shortest distance between A and B. In this run, with winds that averaged just under 25 knots, The team smashed not only the nautical mile record* by over 5 knots averaging over 55.3 knots... but also raised their own 'Outright speed' record* to 59.38 knots over 500 meters hitting a peak speed of 64.78 knots (74.55 mph, 120 kph). For Larsen it was the perfect payback for 10 years chasing 'the perfect reach'. Speed sailing had paid him back in full and a dream was realised.
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.

VESTAS Sailrocket 2. "The magic mile" world record*...
 
Very impressive.I wonder if a bit more speed could come from losing the go pros and maybe tucking in some? Or maybe an SFC fairing in front of him.
 
to be honest, I wonder why they still call it sailing... most of the boat is not even touching water. I would call it maybe the lowest flying airplain ever that survived over 500 meters closest possible to the sea - no?  :o

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  Could be way off the mark with this Lothar but I think they call it sailing because it has a sail... :-X

  Video made me smile, he is sat there gibbering into his crash helmet, "this is fast, we're really going fast now" Reminded me of me when I first started riding big bikes.


    Keith
 
laverdakeith said:
  Could be way off the mark with this Lothar but I think they call it sailing because it has a sail... :-X

    Keith
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Sooo - surfing means you have a surf? I thought that is called a sail, too... or is that then called sailing, too?

Obviously not THAT easy...

:P

and if you put your grill below a sail that protects you from sun, are you then making surf&turf? or sail and turf?  :o

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