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"Sovereign of the Seas", 1852, 258 ft, the fastest and longest ship yet built when she was launched in New York, designed and built by Donald Mackay, America's foremost clipper designer. On her maiden voyage, she sailed New York to San Francisco in 103 days. This ship achieved the fastest ever recorded speed of a sailing vessel (22 knots).
IDEC SPORT [1] (formerly Groupama 3, Banque Populaire VII, Lending Club 2, IDEC 3) is a racing sailing trimaran designed for transoceanic record-setting. She is one of the world's fastest ocean-going sailing vessels and the current holder of the Jules Verne Trophy for circumnavigation of the world.
Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship held this record for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989. Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay.
Has held the record for the fastest speed ever for a sailing ship, 22 kn (41 km/h), since 1854 Sovereign of the Seas , a clipper ship built in 1852, was a sailing vessel notable for setting the world record for the fastest sailing ship, with a speed of 22 knots (41 km/h).
Record beaten in 2008 by Gitana 13. June 2006 : Transpacific, west to east (Yokohama - San Francisco) in 13 days and 22 hours. [4] December 2016 : Around the world sailing record single-handed as Sodebo Ultim by Thomas Coville in 49 days 3 hours 7 minutes and 38 seconds (7 days less than Francis Joyon's previous record).
Speed sailing is the art of sailing a craft as fast as possible over a predetermined route, and having its overall or peak speed recorded and accredited by a regulatory body. The term usually refers to sailing on water, even though sailing on land and ice is progressively faster because of the lower friction involved.
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Eight years later, this record was broken by another Incat vessel, Catalonia, and again the following month by Cat-Link V with 68 hours and 9 minutes (41.28 knots). With the end of the express liners era, the Blue Riband has become an item of largely historical interest, with some authors regarding the United States as the last holder of the ...