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New World Record Speed-107 km/h (57,97 knots)

Postby RedSky » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:20 pm


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Re: New World Record Speed-107 km/h (57,97 knots)

Postby Toby » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:23 pm

very cool ! congratulations

that's not Luderitz, is it?

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Re: New World Record Speed-107 km/h (57,97 knots)

Postby kiterocky » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:25 pm

Hydrofoil lovers thats a real speed....😁😁

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Re: New World Record Speed-107 km/h (57,97 knots)

Postby RedSky » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:33 pm

Toby wrote:
Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:23 pm
very cool ! congratulations

that's not Luderitz, is it?
Unsure. That dug-out channel tho

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Re: New World Record Speed-107 km/h (57,97 knots)

Postby grigorib » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:50 pm

kiterocky wrote:
Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:25 pm
Hydrofoil lovers thats a real speed....😁😁
sounds as right as bragging about death rock BPMs to Reggae crowd

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Re: New World Record Speed-107 km/h (57,97 knots)

Postby zerogee_ca » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:54 pm

Salin-de-Giraud Canal, France

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Re: New World Record Speed-107 km/h (57,97 knots)

Postby PullStrings » Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:04 pm

Would be interesting to know what was the average wind speed in knots during that record run...40kn...45kn...50kn...57kn ??....anybody knows ?

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Re: New World Record Speed-107 km/h (57,97 knots)

Postby longwhitecloud » Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:29 pm

Jayzuz, so important not to have any straight up banks on the downwind side! Good work.

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Re: New World Record Speed-107 km/h (57,97 knots)

Postby RadDrDuke » Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:39 am

Great stuff! My family used to have a Hobie Trifoiler, fastest production sailboat, very fun to pull a couple G's going 45mph in the cockpit

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Re: New World Record Speed-107 km/h (57,97 knots)

Postby edt » Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:00 am

that's france and the wind is called the "mistral" the event is held in the salt marshes, caused by fall pressure systems.

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luderitz is a different wind and I'm not quite sure how it's formed, I think it's partly thermal from the desert.

If I had my choice just to hang out and do some speed runs no world records just to go fast, I think I would rather go to luderitz, seems smoother wind. The mistral can be terrifying.


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