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2. Water speed record - Wikipedia

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   The world unlimited Water Speed Record is the officially recognised fastest speed achieved by a water-borne vehicle, irrespective of propulsion method. The current unlimited record is 511.11 km/h (317.59 mph), achieved by Australian Ken Warby in the Spirit of Australia on 8 October 1978. Warby's record was still standing more than 45 years later.

3. Sailing hydrofoil - Wikipedia

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   Sailing hydrofoil. A sailing hydrofoil, hydrofoil sailboat, or hydrosail is a sailboat with wing-like foils mounted under the hull. As the craft increases its speed the hydrofoils lift the hull up and out of the water, greatly reducing wetted area, resulting in decreased drag and increased speed. A sailing hydrofoil can achieve speeds exceeding ...

4. High-speed craft - Wikipedia

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   A high-speed craft (HSC) is a high-speed water vessel for civilian use, also called a fastcraft or fast ferry. The first high-speed craft were often hydrofoils or hovercraft, but in the 1990s catamaran and monohull designs become more popular. Most high-speed craft serve as passenger ferries, but the largest catamarans and monohulls also carry ...

5. F50 (catamaran) - Wikipedia

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   Mast length. 18 m (59 ft) - 24 m (79 ft) Class is a member of World Sailing. ← AC50. [edit on Wikidata] The F50 is a one-design foiling catamaran used in the SailGP race series. The name is an abbreviation of " F oiling" and "a hull length of 50 feet". [1] The F50s are adapted from the AC50s used in the America's Cup, with modifications ...

6. Hydroptère - Wikipedia

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   Hydroptère is a French experimental sailing hydrofoil trimaran imagined by the yachtman Éric Tabarly. The Hydroptère project was managed by Alain Thébault, the design done by naval architects VPLP design [1] and the manufacturing by a group of French high-tech companies. Its multihull hydrofoil design allows the sail-powered vessel to reach ...

7. Moth (dinghy) - Wikipedia

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   The Moth is a small development class of sailing dinghy. Originally a small, fast home-built sailing boat designed to plane, since 2000 it has become an expensive and largely commercially produced boat designed to hydroplane on foils though many are still built at home, typically at much lower cost. The pre-hydrofoil design Moths are still ...