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High-performance watercraft that can exceed the speed of the true wind include sailing catamarans and foiling sailing craft. Ice boats and land-sailing craft are often able to do so. There are also wind-powered vehicles that can travel faster than the wind, such as the rotor-powered Blackbird , which are outside the scope of this article.
The Extreme 40 is a class of sailing catamaran created by TornadoSport and designed by Yves Loday.The boats are 40 feet long and are constructed out of carbon fibre.They have a top speed of about 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph) and can sail at about 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) in 20–25 knots of wind [1] The first extreme 40 was launched in 2005.
The class was founded during the 1960s and was part of the 4-tier IYRU (now ISAF) approach to divide up the sports catamaran sailing scene into 4 separate groups. These A, B, C and D classes were governed by a very small set of class rules to which each design had to comply. [2] [3] The A-Class is the largest remaining of those 4 main classes.
Performance Boats, Wally Forlì: Germán Frers: 2016: Prepreg carbonfiber sloop Iduna: 33.50 m (110 ft) Gebruder de Vries Scheepsbouw: Henri Willem de Voogt: 1939: Auxiliary steel ketch Doha 2006: 33.50 m (110 ft) Multiplast: Gilles Ollier: 2000: Ocean racing carbonfiber catamaran, originally Club Med: Heritage M: 33.50 m (110 ft) Perini Navi: 2000
Cruising catamaran in 2012 Cruising trimaran with folding amas in 2005. Design considerations for a cruising yacht include seaworthiness, performance, sea kindliness, and cost of construction, as follows: [33] Seaworthiness addresses the integrity of the vessel and its ability to stay afloat and shelter its crew in the conditions encountered.
Telstar trimarans is a line of trimarans most recently built by the Performance Cruising Inc shipyard in Annapolis, Maryland. The line has been designed and built by Tony Smith, with the initial design created in early 1970s. Construction continued until 1981 with some minor modifications to the main design, and then stopped.
The sailing performance of the Hirondelle was excellent in its day, and is still good for a boat of its size, particularly in Mk I form. Over 300 Hirondelles were sold. There are four types: Hirondelle Mk I - In general the Mk I's had a tall rig, with a mast in excess of 30 feet (9.1 m), and a high percentage of the boats were home completed ...
The Nacra 17 is a performance catamaran used for sailing. It was designed in 2011, went into production in 2012 and has been the focus of multihull sailing at the Olympic Games since its conception. The Nacra has been converted to a sailing hydrofoil for the 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris (Marseille) Olympics. [1]