Please select your home edition
Edition
X-Yachts Leaderboard 2024 2
Product Feature
Seldén PBB50 SINGLE/BECKET
Seldén PBB50 SINGLE/BECKET

VESTAS Sailrocket 2 65.45 knot run video

by Paul Larsen, VESTAS Sailrocket 28 Nov 2012 15:16 GMT 24 November 2012

This is the day that VESTAS Sailrocket 2 took speed sailing into a whole new era. Having already broken the existing Outright World Speed Sailing Record by the biggest margin in the records history a little over a week earlier, the team took to the waters of Walvis Bay in strong winds to try and be the first to take the sport over the 60 knot average mark.

This video shows the third run of the day. The record attempt had been plagued by unusually light winds but they knew that on this day, Walvis Bay was going to deliver the goods. After 11 years of hard work on a 'roller coaster of highs and lows'... everything was in place for something big to happen. Founder and co-designer of the Sailrocket project, Malcolm Barnsley, had flown in to see his dream play out before his own eyes. VESTAS Sailrocket 2 has put a mark way up on the graph to show everyone what is possible.

*Record subject to WSSRC ratification

Aerial photography by Bernt Bruns, directed, filmed and edited by Ben Holder.

Read Paul's full blog on this run on the VESTAS Sailrocket.com website.

Related Articles

Weymouth Speed Week 2022
50 years on, and one of the best ever Little did Sir Tim Colman (yes, he of mustard fame) and James Gregono know when they and their peers started Weymouth Speed week in 1972 to see just how fast their boats could go over the now legendary 500m course. Posted on 27 Oct 2022 Paul Larsen on RORC Time over Distance Series
The fastest sailor on the planet having clocked 68 knots in Vestas Sailrocket 2 Larsen has always been involved in cutting edge sailing projects and in this 45-minute interview he discusses foiling technology in both the Vendée Globe and the forthcoming Match in the 46th America's Cup. Posted on 4 Mar 2021 65+ knot Rocket Ride
A look back at the incredible achievement of Vestas Sailrocket 2 With so many people asking "what is it like" to sail this boat at this speed, we thought it was time to do a more 'pure' edit of our fastest, final incredible run. Posted on 13 Apr 2020 Podcast: An extraordinary 10 years of sailing
Andy Rice, Mark Jardine and James Boyd discuss the sailing decade In the last podcast before Christmas, Andy Rice joins with fellow sailing journalist James Boyd and Mark Jardine, managing editor of Sail-World.com and YachtsandYachting.com to look back on an extraordinary 10 years of sailing. Posted on 21 Dec 2019 The Unsung Wise Man
Reg Bratt's remarkable contribution to British dinghy sailing exposed Today, nearly half a century after he was so very much hands on in the dinghy world, Weymouth's Reginald 'Reg' Bratt has a mind as sharp as ever. We look at his remarkable engineering breakthroughs, surprising designs, and speed records. Posted on 13 Dec 2019 Swiss engineers to design the fastest sailboat
SP80 is the Swiss challenge powered by a kite wing Three young engineers from the Swiss engineering school EPFL have decided to design the fastest sailboat over a 500m track and enter sailing history. Posted on 19 Nov 2019 Fever-Tree Moment: That was Fast!
Speed king Paul Larsen enjoys a Gin & Tonic at Antigua Sailing Week Australian Paul Larsen is at Antigua Sailing Week racing on Peter Harrison's Superyacht Sojana, which is top of CSA 2 after scoring five straight bullets. Larsen is a self-confessed adrenalin junky and an awesome sailing gunslinger. Posted on 2 May 2018 Sailrocket 2 at Advanced Engineering Show
On display at the NEC in November Sailrocket 2, which smashed the world speed sailing record by the biggest margins in its history, will go on display at this year's Advanced Engineering Show in Birmingham on the 4th and 5th of November. Posted on 16 Oct 2015 Five minutes with a Speed Freak
Paul Larsen about the MOD70 Concise 10 Tony Lawson's MOD 70, Concise 10, will be screeching south next month. Skipper Ned Collier Wakefield will be on the charge for the 1500-mile delivery to Marina Lanzarote to compete in this November's RORC Transatlantic Race. Posted on 5 Oct 2015 Weymouth Speed Week 2015 at WPNSA
With Vestas Sailrocket 2 on display Weymouth Speed Week will run from 3rd to the 10th October at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. Along with a line-up of interesting entries the current 500m World Speed Record holder, Vestas Sailrocket 2, will be on display. Posted on 2 Oct 2015
Copyright 2024 YY Online Services Ltd. registered in England no. 7895890
Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy