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Bermuda Race
Rambler slashes Bermuda Race record
George David’s 90ft maxi Rambler has smashed the 635 mile Newport Bermuda race record, clipping a massive 14 hours off the previous best time set 10 years ago by Roy Disney’s Pyewacket. The new record now stands at 39hr, 39 minutes, 18 seconds (subject to ratification) - an average speed Speed #speedsailing of (...) -
Cadiz-San Salvador
Giovanni Soldini and his team establish a time reference for the Cadiz-San Salvador record
Giovanni Soldini and his crew took 10 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes and 2 seconds to travel the 3884 miles of the orthodromic route which links Cadiz to San Salvador, thus establishing an excellent time reference - the first - for the monohull category. -
Trophée Jules Verne
45 days 13 hours 42 minutes 53 seconds for Loïck Peyron and crew
The maxi trimaran Banque Populaire V has crossed the finishing line of the Jules Verne Trophy at 23:14, french hour. The overall time around the world (subject to be ratified) is 45 days 13 hours 42 minutes 53 seconds. -
Jules Verne Trophy
Loïck Peyron : "We crossed the equator line at full speed"
Loïck Peyron’s crew aboard the 40 meters long trimaran Banque Populaire V is back on the northern hemisphere. The team crossed the equator line à 12:17 (french hour) this Friday, after 38 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes and 48 seconds from their start from Ushant (west of France). By the way, they broke the record Ushant - equator by 3 days 18 (...) -
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
Wild Oats XI starts as favourite this year to beat her own record
Over its sixty-seven year history, the race record at the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has only been broken ten times, an average of once every six and a half years. Given that the current fastest elapsed time of one day, eighteen hours, forty minutes and ten seconds was set in 2005, statistics suggest that the feat is due to be surpassed (...) -
Rolex Fastnet Race
Ian Walker set a monohull record for the Rolex Fastnet Race
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s Azzam held off a relentless challenge from Groupama 4 to lead home the three Volvo Ocean Race boats and set a monohull record for the Rolex Fastnet Race. -
Trimaran Banque Populaire V
Loïck Peyron and crew have broken the Round Britain and Ireland record
Last night (french hour) at 11:06 pm, Loïck Peyron and his 12 men crew have crossed the finishing line of the Round Britain and Ireland record at Lizard cape. The new skipper of the 40m long trimaran Banque Populaire V adds a new record in the way to break next winter the Jules Verne Trophy Jules Verne Trophy #TropheeJulesVerne (...) -
SeaSailSurfer of the month
SeaSailSurfer of October 2010 : Alex Caizergues
On said kitesurfing is not sailing. Other said the Luderitz Speed Speed #speedsailing Challenge’ spot is not deep enough. But the channel in Namibia is a fixed place with 500 meters marks and is more than 80 cm deep. When kitesurfers and windsurfers sail there, there are truly in the spirit of the original Weymouth and Brest Brest (...) -
Speed
50.43 knots : Women world record for Charlotte Consorti
The Luderitz Speed Speed #speedsailing Challenge had a great day on Thursday. Alex Caizergues’ record has been beaten. The new holder is now American kitesurfer Rob Doublas. On the same day, French Charlotte Consorti made a run upper 50 knots.Very close to the Hydroptère previous absolute record. She holds the women absoolute recor (...) -
Vitesse
French kitesurfer Alexandre Caizergues breaks 100 km/h
On Tuesday, the french kitesurfer Alexandre Caizergues has beaten the absolute speed Speed #speedsailing sailing record with 54,10 knots (100,19 km/h) over the 500 metters of the Luderitz channel in Namibia. By the way he improves l’Hydroptère previous record of 51,36 (...)