Worlds fastest sailing boat
| Alain Thébault and Thierry Lombard's l’Hydroptère is the fastest sailing boat on the planet. With a speed of 51.36 knots, it has a new absolute speed record over 500 meters. With a 28-knot west wind, Alain Thébault and his crew took full advantage | of the flying trimaran’s potential and earned the title of the fastest sailing craft on the planet. With a top speed of 55.5 knots (103 km/h) and an average speed of 51.36 knots, l’Hydroptère takes her place in the history of sailing. |
| After this tremendous success, l’Hydroptère team is already dreaming of new projects. | They are planning to take the ship to the open seas to break long distance records. |
| At this moment, the new laboratory model is being built. l’Hydroptère.ch, an experimental platform that will fly over Lake Geneva, will be launched in Spring 2010 and will help developing l’Hydroptère maxi which |
will circumnavigate the globe, challenging several oceanic records: the Atlantic, Pacific and around-the-world. Source: l’Hydroptère |
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