På väg mot världsrekordet i speed?

Vestas Sailrocket har redan nått 55.4 knop men bara som topphastighet. Rekordhastigheten mäts som en snitthastighet över en sträcka på 500m.
Här gör den över 42knop. Snitthastgheten ska över 55.65knop. Ganska mäktigt.


This is the 18th run of VESTAS Sailrocket 2 since her launch in March this year. We are trialling her new ventilated foils here which we believe will enable boats to exceed the limits previously imposed by 'cavitation'. We know they will work at high speed but believed that getting there would be the biggest problem. 40-45 knots was seen as confirmation that they were working. On this run we did an effortless 42+knots without even sheeting the wing in fully in. This may well be a very significant run which marks the step into the future of high speed sailing and ventilated foil performance. We believe that this is the fastest that one of these foils has ever been on a sailing boat. VESTAS Sailrocket 2 is built purely to be a testbed for these foils and to clearly demonstrate their potential. At this stage we haven't done it yet... if we do, then we will look back at this run as being truly the first. If it looks easy, I can tell you that getting to this stage certainly wasn't.


PL.