Paul Larsen & Vestas Sail Rocket 2 - Smashing the Sailing World Speed Record - An Inside Look
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- Paul Larsen breaking the World Speed Record with the Vestas Sailrocket 2!
Record Breaking Speed: 65.45 knots
Location: Walvis Bay Namibia
Date: 16/11/12
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Brill ! The joy and enthusiasm of the whole team is inspirational. Well done
Unbelievable !! Fantastic achievement - well done - and huge cahones too !!! Be safe
Haha I thought this might be in Namibia. I went to Swakopmund a couple of years ago and had a blast, didn't go to Walvis Bay though. This looks intense! Great job to Paul and the team for breaking the record.
Great there are people that do stuff like this.
lol that sail boat is nuts!!
"This is fast. This is fast. This is real fast. This is how you do it Chucky!" I love it!
I can only think of the destruction caused by chasing this speed with petroleum..
Whoa! It's like you have to see it to believe it.
drag racing. sweet. these seem like some friendly folks. well done paul and friends!
I wish I'd been out there with my Sunfish. I'd show these outbacks what's up.
You know what? "This is real fast" LOL
Very nice thanks
That was outstanding.
Fantastic! Huge!
Thank you for sharing super cool super cool!!!
That's smoking fast. Would love to sail it.
Not exactly sailing but the record is well deserved.
That speed sailing world record of 65.45 knots, made in Walvis bay Namibia 24. November 2012, still holds today. Hydro foil is the fastest on water.
Some really happy people here - !
Very awesome very cool...
Awesome
Creating a rooster tail behind a sailboat, that you don't see every day.. COOL>>>
Amazing ...... and great concept.
What a boat. Now to get it racing.
Looks very much like the Merrimac design.the 4o kn sailboat,I heard in the 80s
stunning
amazing vid. lovely people too
Got the right name on the boat...Rocket! Ahdamn.
well done
65kn ... damn, that is fast. Most "normal" boats make around a tenth of that speed.
He does realize those cameras slowed him down ?
Ditch the Cameras! MOAR SPEED!
Just Awesome!!!!!
At first I thought it really had a rocket motor supplementing the sail
amazing
I want to ride on that boat so very much
wow, incredible!
Hello there! Do you hold the rights for this video? Please let me know, thank you very much!
Foils are chasing your record but I think you add foils to both the steering hull and the sail hull with control between and you can stay ahead.
Foiling is a new frontier.
I'm sure you'll embrace it.
Luv and Peace.
Ian Edmonds this is one up from foils... If you look carefully you can see that the sail gets lifted out of the water by a wing. The boat makes use of ground effect to essentially fly. Crazy really but its more a plane that a boat.
Crazy fast
Scary fast
Wow! All I can say!
what a cleaver design...just one outrigger sail generates 65 knots....they need to rethink all the sailing ship designs...wonder how much speed could be attained with multiple sails set parallel to the hull!
One other person mentioned it's actually of one of the most memorable books I read half a century ago : Bernard Smith , www.amazon.com/40-knot-Sailboat-B-Smith/dp/B0000EGOZD , 1963 .
But they have beaten Smith's dream by 15 [ make that 25 ] knots -- probably partly due to today's materials .
Smith was influenced by Pacific islanders who sailed cross-wind with asymmetric 1 outrigger canoes . It's a good question whether the Vesta boat can be reversed for the opposite tack .
Wow !
How do you steer that thing?
Hal you do not steer it, it can only sail at a certain angle from the wind
Eating up the horizon...
i love it!
Awsome
This is the Formula 1 of sail.
I would say more the Dragster ;)
Agreed. I don't understand the physics of it though. The craft is sailing faster than the wind multiple times over.
look up 'apparent wind' Tim , that get's added ;)
Ah I see. It is kind of like the Theory of Relativity.
We're not experts on that for sure. ;) But we're glad you found the answer! Fair winds!
let me get this straight... the wind is blowing 29 mph.... you are traveling in a wind driven vehicle..... and you are going 68.01 mph !!! Whaaa Whaaaat ? : ) Awesome !!! Truly incredible...... But I don't get it ; how DOES that happen ?
These are the joys of physics and aerodynamics.
These boats, like all sailing stuff (kites etc) dont go downwind, but perpendicular to the wind.
Like kitesurfing, you are way faster than the wind itself (would you surf WITH the wind), the kite would fall down. Same principle.
There are nice graphics if you google, they explain it much better than me with my shitty english^^
Soundcomplex Your apparent wind, the wind that actually drives your sails, is a vector of the true wind and the wind created by your forward motion. for the ultimate in low friction sailcraft, read about ice boats.
Since he has a wingsail it basicaly just gets more and more force in the sail the faster he goes. At the fastest speeds the wind he gets comes basically striaght ahead of him because of his forward motion. Works a little like a airplane. The faster the wind goes in the wing (the more speed) the more power the wing generates. The true problem why he doesnt go faster is because og the wind resistence (is that the right word?), the waves and the fact that contact with water brakes you like a bitch :)
No, not MPH. 68 knots! That's around 80 MPH!!!!!
I can't figure out the dynamics here. I always thought the wind on a reach is the best for speed, but he seems to be sailing directly into the wind. What am i getting wrong here?
Pretty darn close. You begin by trimming your sail(s) to the true wind. As your speed increases, your apparent wind shifts forward. Your apparent wind, the wind that actually drives your sails, is the resultant vector of the true wind and the wind created by your forward motion. With low friction ( foiling, ice ) sailcraft, this wind is stronger than the true wind. for the ultimate in low friction sailcraft, read about ice boats.
water and land craft will not likely ever be faster than ice craft. Nontheless, this is amazing ad is far more likely to have an impact on useful wind transportation, IMHO. from google search on 8/21
The record for a purely sail-powered vehicle on land stands at 116mph - almost twice as fast as the quickest sailing-craft on water. The highest reliable recorded sailing speed on ice, a vastly different technical challenge, is 84mph.
that sail in the rear and parallel to the hull....why not on more sailboats...seems to provide maximum thrust.
poor functionality
records++++++++++
How would this boat sail on the other tack?
It wouldn't.
WOW!!!
He was dragging an anchor behind him during these runs.
Can't believe he doesn't have a cockpick cowl of some clear material. Might even cut down on the drag as well as blocking spray.
Please post your videos in HD.
YEH!!!!!!!!!
Dragster of the sea....
If it capsized, how would you get it back up?
Daaaaamn!
On whose authority
Aside from the obvious entry into record books and history and possible fame, what other benefits comes from breaking a speed record?
NeonsStyle hi NeonsStyle, and thanks for the great question. Aside from the sheer thirst for speed much like in the automotive industry this sort of record helps to push the tech development curve upwards. Design, Materials, construction methods,and then sailing these powerful machines are part of the entire R&D process. The progress made on these smaller vessels at lower costs paves the way for both the bigger pro sailing projects as well as for the industry as a whole. Take for example foiling. The tech is actually ancient (1907 on powerboats!), and in sailing it was developed well before America's Cup 35 where it received worldwide attention. This has now become a true revolution and speed is not the only objective, another by-product is reduced consumption/emissions, and simply because sailing can become more efficient than turning the engine on. Resarchers and designers are already working on sailing cargo ships, so it's 'back to the future', and it can become a much more sustainable one. Fair winds from Nautical Channel!
Nautical Channel
Thanks for the reply. I was more thinking in monetary terms, ie patents etc. As the tech advances are clearly obvious, just as it is in aviation and space tech. However thanks for the reply.
That's not another benefit, that's a primary benefit, not secondary and it's the secondary that I'm interested in.
+NeonsStyle Aside from winning a new world record title, it helps develop new technologies to use beter the clean and endless energies provided for free (for now) from earth
+NeonsStyle the question is irrelevant perhaps. why ask it? does there have to be some meaning in it that you approve of? why do men climbmountains? why do the go the the poles? why do fathers kiss their baby each night?
a ces américains ils mesurent en quoi? en milles marin , en milles américains ou en unités internationale qui est le km
charles raymond
Well, there is the kilometer, then there is the mile, and there is the knot.
All three are international, aknowledged, and used.
There is no such thing, nowadays as an American mile.
But, being French speaking, of course you want to show off the kilometer.
Was that a two-way run?
We should meet somewhere . . . where you all can run . . . and where The Lady Pink With Her Sea Legs ON (Vessel #2) can stretch out say 2% of power . . . my 5 pilots and I would like to show you speed . . . 2% at more that 800 miles per hour . . . . if we turn up the %% . . . to 17 % of available power . . . she can go 7,200 . . . but 2% just to be friends
That comment doesn't make any...ANY... sense at all...like...what have you've been smoking?
At this point, it's basically a plane...
So, build one with a 400 ft. waterline.
65 knots equals 74mph mates.
ones ego gets a boosted I suppose to answer the previous question !
Kind of unfair compared to L'HYDROPTERE who sailed on open sea whereas Vestas sailed in some kind of "artificial" conditions.
They were in the ocean off the coast of Africa. How is that "Artificial"?
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Of course it's artificial: Luderitz is a particularly well sheltered spot. No waves at all, strong and consistent wind, shallow water
no waves, on one tack, and with vertical lift from the sail
So why didn't L"Hydroptere sail in the same place? Couldn't take that long to get there in that boat.
wait....this was really fast
What was the wind speed?
+Christopher Walker at the beginning of the clip they say it's averaging 25 knots, gusting to 29, and lows of 22.
I tool a pill in abiza
What is the helmet going to protect him from? Flying fish?
No, it is to protect for head injurie.
It is cool but how many people care about the sailing speed world record besides maybe sailors ? That thing fly"s so why not make it to where you can lift up off of the water at will and come back down !
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Glad he made it but it was set a one way boat, not what I would consider a speed record for a real sailboat. To put it into perspective in 1930 a Flying Dutchman ice boat went 143 MPH . On smooth ice an ice boat can go 6 times faster then true wind speed
Put that iceboat in the water.
It is on water in a solid form
Water is the liquid form. Water in solid form is called ice.
The point was then and now, a one way boat does not return does it?
Water seems damn solid if you hit it at 70MPH !
It was fast but the boat looks so ungainly
#partiu
no disc break wasn't enough... you had to do it on water ... that's Wright brothers shit you had
Quite vaporous, and that, really is the problem. Why we don't teach the physics and chemistry of water, Our Living Water, Day One, start-to-finish, seems like enemy action to me. Kill the enemy.
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Not really a sailing boat. Some orange potato.
"This is fast. This is fast. This is real fast. This is how you do it Chucky!" I love it!
I can only think of the destruction caused by chasing this speed with petroleum..