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  2. Vestas Sailrocket - Wikipedia

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    The Vestas Sailrocket was built to capture the sailing speed record competing in the B-class for 150 to 235 square feet of sail. It is piloted by the project leader Paul Larsen and sponsored by Danish wind turbines manufacturer Vestas. In 2008 the first version reached a reported unofficial speed of 52.22 knots (96.71 km/h), [1] before crashing ...

  3. Paul Larsen - Wikipedia

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    Paul Larsen (born 16 January 1970) [1] is an Australian sailor who has been involved in many extreme sailing projects. [2] [3] He led the 10-year project for the Vestas Sailrocket, which set new nautical mile and 500m world speed sailing records in 2012. [4]

  4. Speed sailing record - Wikipedia

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    Speed sailing records are sanctioned, since 1972, by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC). Records are measured either by average speed over a specified distance or by total distance traveled during a specified time interval. The three most sought after records are the: 500 metre (or "outright") record is held by Paul Larsen.

  5. How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record - AOL

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  6. World Sailing Speed Record Council - Wikipedia

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    The World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) was founded in 1972, initially to ratify records at the inaugural Weymouth Speed Week held every year since in Portland Harbor.The WSSRC is the body authorized by the World Sailing (formerly International Sailing Federation, International Yacht Racing Union) to confirm speed records of sailing craft (boats, windsurfers and kitesurfers) on water ...

  7. Speed sailing - Wikipedia

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    The current speed record over a 500 meter (1,640 ft) course for a kiteboard, officially ratified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council, is 55.65 kn, held by Robert Douglas, and set in Luderitz, Namibia in October 2010.

  8. Category:Sailing records - Wikipedia

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    Around the world sailing record; P. ... World Sailing Speed Record Council This page was last edited on 28 April 2015, at 21:00 (UTC). Text ...

  9. Around the world sailing record - Wikipedia

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    The records are homologated by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC). [3] WSSRC rules state that qualifying round-the-world voyages must be at least 21,600 nmi long, calculated along the shortest possible track from the starting port and back that does not cross land and does not go below 63°S.