VESTAS Sailrocket 2. "The magic mile" world record*...
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- 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.
* All records subject to WSSRC ratification
Directed, filmed and edited by Ben Holder.
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His wife suggested he should buy a sailboat to help him relax and deal with his performance anxiety.
Hahaha hahaahahahhahhaaq
Bahahaha
Lotta good that musta been. ROFLMFAO ❤
I laughed... lol. To relax, uh huh. But you're probably right.
This honestly might be one of the most jaw-dropping things I have ever seen
I've grown up sailing all my life. Sailed a number of times in a Hobie Trifoiler.
This boat is even more amazing--in that it's more 'engineered' To get an appreciation for this, one must start with learning to sail. The basics. Sail a small sunfish, then sail a 20', then a catamaran, finally, Windsurfing...then you may appreciate this machine. To ride on this is many times more exciting than a fast powerboat/jetboat--because there is no motor, but all the while a beauty all it's own.
You've clearly never experienced unlimited hydroplanes
Anyone who has ever been on the water knows that this is really fast. And yes it pretty much goes in a straight line. But, the speed and the thrill, and seeing your dream in real life, how many people do that, not many. That is why there are the few who do and the many who just watch. By the way all speed records are in a straight line, airplanes, cars, and pretty much everything else. That has got to be so much fun!
Not all are in a straight line!
Sailplanes can go transonic speeds with something called “dynamic soaring” and if you look up a video you’ll see it’s very much not in a straight line :)
You can come and try and tell me that in the face.
And the point is? Lessons in futility. Beauty is being on the water, period.
@@del7i540 may the poors never live to experience beauty
There's only a few people who do because most don't have the money you twonk.
You can feel the terror in his voice
All that HD GoPro footage, uploads a 240p video -.-
That is completely impressive! Engineering, driving and atmospheric condition all seemed to collude for this amazing performance. Great job to all involved
Fantastic effort by the team! Amazing video too! I remember the beginnings of Malcolm's design efforts, almost thirty years ago at Portland Speed Week, and this performance now is the reward for an awful lot of persistence! We used to dream about the "forty knot sailboat", and now the sixty knot version is reality! On behalf of all the old, mad, lunatic fringe of Speed Sailors from the Johnnie Walker Speed Week days, I offer hearty congratulations to the Vesta team!
Translation:
"This is fast..."
"This is fast..."
"This is fast..."
I like coming back to this video every once in a while :)
So do I
55 knots=63 m.p.h.! That's the first time I've seen a "rooster tail" from a sailboat. WOW!
You mean 65kts...
"This is fast, this is fast, this is really fast, this is smokin!
Whitenacho I'd have pooped my pants
Reckon you been smokin, pop.
@ 2:04 ‘’ THIS IS HOW YOU DO THIS CHUCKIE!!!’’ An instant classic in my book!!
Congratulations! Amazing Video. Marlow ropes is proud to have helped such a great team.
This is absolutely wicked!
As Paul was commentating, tears came to my eyes!
"This is real fast"!!!!!!
Congrats!!!!
Good design. Good manufacture. Courageous. Well done. Great work!
not every day you see an actual rooster tail from a sailboat!!!!
Like NEVER!
milesmouse72 looked like a giant lure to me lol
Reinforcing all the physics of faster than wind travel. In spite of having taken physics classes, it's still a bit magical to me how much faster than the wind a craft can travel. Land based wind powered are crazy fast as they don't have to deal with drag from water
Imagine a boat sailing across the wind at 12 mph in a 12 mph wind. The apparent wind hitting the boat is 17 mph. Now the boat sheets into the 17 mph wind and presto, faster than the wind travel. These guys are doing over twice the wind speed but they use dark magic and evil alchemy.
Ice boats can reach about 140 mph in 40 mph wind speed. It's all about what is called apparent wind. As the boat speeds up, the apparent wind increases. This assumes the boat is sailing more or less toward the wind, as opposed to in a following wind.
Apparent wind also refers to wind direction on a sailboat, which changes as the boat moves in relation to the actual wind direction
I thinks this craft is able due Bernoulli's principle...the vacuum effect on the bowed surface of the sail literally sucks the craft and is counter balanced by the pilot hull. As the craft speed increases, so does the apparent wind speed, adding to the vacuum effect and increasing the speed. In this case the speed in limited by the distance between the 2 hulls as eventually the pull force of the sail will exceed the counter weight of the pilot hull. The hulls appear to be on hydrofoils that lift the hulls out of the water, there by reducing the water drag to about 100th of a normal catamaran as the surfaces of the hulls in contact with the water is significantly reduced.
where can you bye this dark magic and evil alchemy cause i want to go faster than the wing tooooo
Outstanding Effort and Accomplishment! Congratulations...
Outstanding accomplishment! Our congratulations to Paul and his team. Keep on sailing. Yes! I have gone that fast powered by the wind on an iice boat, On liquid water what a rush!
I love tech. I know one of you people out there are thinking sail powered flight!!! I know I see it, Thanks for making the world a more wonderful place!!! NICE WORK!!
Have been watching you online for a number of years now and really thrilled for you that you have smashed the record. Your web site giving details of how you have been progressing with design ideas etc has been fascinating....Brilliant, Congratulations.
Brilliant result ... well done all involved, that was fantastic!
That gives me a lot of pleasure to see! You did it! Wonderful
This video should be the the first title that appears amongst those entitled, ‘If it were not caught on film, it could not be believed’.
And I was thinking I could go quite fast in my opti down a wave
+Sam Bacon i did 17 knots in my opti with a jimmy riged asymetric spinaker. verified by the irish coast guard who told me to go back to shore .49 knots wind is no place for an opti.
seems legit
cillian williamson I’m a year late, but do you mean boat speed? 17 knots in a opti seems impossible
Years ago i used to race Hydroplanes, and that's what is feels like over rougher water at times.........AWESOME lol
Congratulations to the team Vestas! You finally did it.
Riding the ragged edge of disaster... And pulling it off.
That's the stuff of legends.
Which is why they travel to Namibia and sail in Walvis Bay. The off shore breeze and relatively sheltered waters allow this boat to display it's true tallents in very tight conditions - when skippered by a guy like Paul Larson.
What you are seeing is in now way "normal" it is extraordinary. Ten years of effort in the making - this is a very special demonstration of developed technologies.
Really special, wow! One quick wind powered machine.
Lol 1:50 "This is fast. This is real fast." You ain't lying dude. lol
That's wild running that right off the beach that way. This may be a single-purpose boat, but it's a helluva' boat at that single purpose!
Add hyrdofoils on this beauty and let's see a new record!
no they are done for the season - the boat needs to be strengthened and the foils tweaked to bust 70 - and I hope they enjoy the rest they have earned and are funded to come back and fully explore what this boat and design is capable of. 65 is what she was set up to do and she delivered and more. Prudence dictates that they take a break. The venue is so tight for this speed - very good work on everyone's part.
Now you are approaching iceboat performance that ANYONE can experience! Well done, indeed.
That is unbelievably fast sailing.. awesome!
These are the inventions which change the course of history...
Fantastic stuff guys. Truly amazing.
having a drink for you guys rite now...cheers from the Gold Coast
GREAT JOB.. completely amazed..There has been the windsurf speed record competition in namibia too last december. They reached 56 knots of max speed. Thanks that u showed me what really means to go that fast cuz i couldn't really figure it out watching the videos of that tiny channel.. wow..
I only have one question. Does it come in black?
That is nuts. Amazing.
Stone the crows an starve the lizards,,,that was GOOD to watch,,More please,,keep it going Larso,,
That was dangerous, wow.
This the best thing to come out of Southampton, UK (along with the XFR speed boat)
Fan - bloody - tastic, well done team!!
The offset of the hull is designed to do exactly what you have said. Remember, despite sailing in 25 knot average winds, the apparent wind generated by Sailrocket's forward speed becomes about 70 knots, at roughly the apparent wind angle that the hull is set to the float pods. You can be sure that the the design engineers didn't make so obvious an error as to mistakenly set the pods askew to the hull.
The Chuck Yeager of sailing and I am not sure if it is coincidence or not, but the X1 was the same colour. Sir Malcolm, Sir Russel, Sir Paul? I would hope so.
Absolutely gobsmacking what you fellows have achieved this week after 10 long years of work. Brilliant! Insprational!
I felt like I was riding with you Paul, some great video, crikey the fastest I've ever been in a boat is 38kts, and that was using 120 horses of Mercury power, not a measly 25kts of wind!
Remember the movie Waterworl? Think of this boat, Deacon in the Waterworld yelling to Mariner "Get him!" and then watching the boat, at 2:05, soar away 75 mph! :D
Their foils peak at close to 70 knots and can be further modified to deliver higher speed. The boat scantlings are at their limits around the peak of 68 knots so them being prudent dictates that the boat has to be strengthened to go further and this season is at an end. You are correct - the kites have a theoretical limit of 60 knots - which is exactly why they went to 65.45 knots on the 500 meter record. This boat and concept can be set up to break 70 knots. Awesome development work.
Aussies, huh? Great work, and such an exciting video. What the ride must have been like!
The fastest I have ever sailed is 35 knots - Paul darn near doubled that. This man has more courage and intestinal fortitude - yet he is a happy warrior - History is what you get to see happen here - and yes it is awesome
Haha "This is fast. This is fast.". You can say that again. Well done folks.
Thanks for letting us know that it was going fast lol
You know how scary that is? 75mph on a boat, much less a sail boat.
No shit?
Fantastic; must add to previous comment, the Supermarine Spitfire also came out of Southampton
If I can ever buy a vestas product I will simply for making this possible. Smokin.
Amazing fellas simple amazing. Now try it with a wing type hover setup I'm sure you will go faster
The word you're looking for is hydrofoil
fantastic. you guys are amazing.
remarkable that these boats "sail" more than twice the ambient wind speed. this shows again that the wind is not pushing the sail but creating a pressure differential between the leading and trailing faces of the sail. how that pressure diff. is exploited depends on the weight and geometry of the boat. the force created on the sail is transferred to the boat very efficiently, driving it well in excess of the wind speed generating the force in the first place.
That pressure differential is always the case on any fast sailboat, that's what cambering battens are for in a nonrigid sail. A rigid sail (wing) like this, though, has a much better L/D than a sail. Even on a Hobie in a fairly stiff wind you can feel the power come way up as you start get faster.
For those who believe a sail boat cannot go faster than the wind, notice that race catamarans, in a down wind do not go with the wind backwards.
They prefer to run with an angle sufficient to strongly increase their speed. So, if the road is longer, in fact, as their speed is much higher, they go faster than the wind in its direction.
Thats straight strappin rockets to ice skates!!!!!!
@Sleman Abu Salim, yes, to a point. Some of the previous records this boat broke were set by sailboard in a specially constructed trench in France relying on 50+knot winds. The "level playing field" is really the limit of winds available in the world, and they're available to anyone willing to travel to them. The remarkable thing about thisboat is that it set the record in winds around half the speed of the 50+knot winds I mentioned above.
un video increible y una máquina todavía más increible con el diseño que tiene
This reminded me when i had my 6'0 north wave sail banjo'd out riding a 9'4" o'brien with the wind at 40 gusting over 45..... Yes the 6'0 was the smallest sail I had at the time but it was pure adrenaline...
jim stover I was just out today in 35 kts with a gaastra 6’3 Damn I was hauling.
Wow, Wow, Wow!!! If it wasn't so harsh maybe a version of that could set a cross ocean record.
Amazing!! Mind blowingly fast!!🤙
you did it - you smashed the boundaries
I would have said this was fake if there wasn't well documented record data to back it. Absolutely insane, especially that this was 11 years ago.
WOW, ......WOW !!!!!!!!! ......... I wanna drive !!!!!!!!!
For a sailboat, that's quick as hell lol
Great Job!
I hope you guys can smash the 60kts average with this boat. You have broken everyone elses records, time to get to work on your own :D
This is awesome.
Guys this is just awesome in so many ways. You have moved the bars so much and you deserve every plaudit there is for this. CONGRATULATIONS.
But by they way. Where are you going to stop? :-)
Fantastic!
WOW I love what you guys are doing. That was fast!
thanks for sharing
Great and awesome clip. Safety all the way. Great tech
The wind is blowing offshore as is evidenced by the wave tops being blown back out to sea. This is just like the Santa Ana condition in Southern California where you can get a very fast sail by going in very close to the beach to find flat water and high winds.
I pull 6 knts and I'm all excited, then 6.2 knts and I'm faaaaast. 😂
Woah!!! I missed hearing about this. Good on you Paul!! And after that you topped 75mph!! Better get a rear view mirror duad, because the highway patrol will be after your tail! :¬D
Thing looks like a formula car tracking across the water in that cockpit veiw
that's a fast free way to travel lol nice
Holy smokes, I thought the big hydrofoil cats were fast! That thing was moving !
Carbon boat woah thats incredible
Wow that was incredible
Wind power awesome ride mate ;-)
This iiiiiis reaaaaaly smmmokkkkin’!!!
No you’re right I sail on j35 old school best we hit was 17 knots woodnie island race out Seattle knot meters my have been off as where in Starbard tack so impeller my have been off nice to seeing theses guys hitting theses speeds crazy when your looking at the foiling sorry blackly rock to widen island race prolly14 knots great helmsman didn’t brooch hard to j:35 Brad reach on spinnaker these guys really good the foiling technology really taking off👍 I wish to get ride on one
Holy smoke ! Incredible
Well done
Holy crap fast. Awesome.
God bless bee safe and have fun ,Awesome .
You know you're goin real fast when your brain only has enough remaining energy to think of synonyms for "fast"
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooow! Congratulations! :D
"That was worth ... everything!". I bet it was! I bet it was haha! :D
If you ever get tired of that boat I could find a solution hahaha ...
wow, wonder what will be possible over the next 5-10 years after watching that...
That was bloody fast. Wow!
Awesome Ski Boat !!!
Amazing! Can't wait to see the next generation craft. Would that be a double fin front and back so when the craft is flying at speed, nothing but the two fins touches the water? Would double airfoils be necessary to keep the force balanced? Will the next generation vestas have a tail like an airplane instead and still use a single fin? Quite exciting to watch the next frontier in speed sailing manifest. I'm already wondering what new design lies ahead.
Amazing