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Luderitz Speed Challenge : 53.27 kts for Antoine Albeau (new world record)
Antoine Albeau started to go over 51 knots on Monday during the LUDERITZ SPEED Speed #speedsailing 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 (...) -
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Luderitz Speed Challenge : Antoine Albeau was leading the race on Saturday ending with 51.66 kts
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 (...) -
Lüderitz Speed Challenge
42.94 knots : Chris Ballois has set a new World Record for disabled riders
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. -
Lüderitz Speed Challenge
Windsurfing session in Namibia closes on with 50+ knots records
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 (...) -
Speed
The Vestas Sailrocket 2 broke the miles record and averages 65+ knots on 500m
"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 (...) -
Speed
Video : Vestas SailRocket 2 at 63 knots
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 (...) -
Lüderitz Speed Challenge
Anders Bringdal broke the 50 knots barrier twice before Antoine Albeau pushes to 50.62 knots
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 (...) -
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Antoine Albeau has just broken the World Windsurfing Record with 49.41 kts
During the 2012 “Lüderitz Speed Speed #speedsailing Challenge” 16 different nationalities will come together over 6 weeks. This week France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Turkey and Sweden have sent their representatives. Antoine Albeau, who is currently - and has been for 20 times in the past - the World Champion in (...) -
Vitesse
Lüderitz Speed Challenge 2011 saw the come back of the windsurf
"Namibia", "Record Record #sailingrecord " and "Kitesurf Kitesurf #Kitesurf "are synonyms with the "Luderitz Speed Speed #speedsailing Challenge" ... But this major kitesurfing event is poised to become the Mecca of speed Speed #speedsailing sailing for windsurfers too! Nowhere else in the world has witnessed so many sailing records, (...) -
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 (...)
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