Outright World Records

500 m Men Hydroptere 51.36kn
500 m Women  S. Bredenkamp 45.20kn
Nautical Mile Men Hydroptere 50.17kn
Nautical Mile Women Z. Davis 34.74kn
 

Hall of Fame

dunki2.pngBjorn Dunkerbeck is the most successful professional windsurfer of all times, and still chasing for new records.
 
National Records: Zimbabwe
500 m Men M. Taylor 37.78kn
500 m Women  n/a n/a
Nautical Mile Men n/a n/a
Nautical Mile Women n/a n/a
 

Rankings 2009

  • ISWC Nations

    1. France
    2. Netherlands
    3. Germany
    4. Sweden
    5. Italy

  • IKA Overall Men

    1. Alex Caizergues, FRA
    2. Sylvain Hoceini, FRA
    3. Rob Douglas, USA
    4. D. Williams, GBR
    5. D. Leroy, USA

  • ISWC Overall Women

    1. Z. Davis, GBR
    2. V. Ghibaudo, FRA
    3. B. Hoefer, GER
    4. M. Geldhof, BEL
    5. M. Raisi, FRA

  • ISWC Overall Men

    1. B. Dunkerbeck, SUI
    2. H. Kreisel, NED
    3. D.-J. Knol, NED
    4. C. Lockwood, AUS
    5. M. Bengtsson, SWE

  • IKA Nations

    1. France
    2. USA
    3. Great Britain
    4. Germany
    5. South Africa

  • IKA Overall Women

    1. M. Gil, USA
    2. C. Consorti, FRA
    3. S. Bredenkamp, RSA
    4. J. Grobbelaar, GBR
    5. Caroline Adrien, FRA

Seasons Top Speed

44.19 kn

Dave Williams
at the Speed Europeans
Dungarvan, Ireland

Rider of the day

Pieter Bijl, NED
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Approved Worldcup Spots

Karpathos, GRE

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Spot Record: 43.68 knots
Antoine Albeau, FRA, 2008

 
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...mail and the big Jib. Finding ourselves a bit underpowered we opted to take one reef out to power the boat up a bit. The wind then increased some to about 27 knots. This time the speed starte...
Wednesday, 09 September 2009

...no stone unturned.There was another element. For all I know now, these might be the last runs that this boat does on this course. Now of course nothing is for certain. If the best way forward for us i...
Tuesday, 21 April 2009

...uoy as the deepest water was near there with the real shallows off a bit further to the left. The boat felt so sweet on that run. She sailed just like the model did all those years ago. Locked i...
Monday, 20 April 2009

... SAILROCKET and all the PI loggers are nested. This could be one of the last times that this particular boat is fired in anger. It takes so much effort now to keep her at this state of readiness. ...
Sunday, 19 April 2009

...y out to speed-spot now after spending the morning giving the wing a good servicing. We took it off the boat and went over all the tapes before getting the heat-gun out and shrinking all the skins dow...
Saturday, 18 April 2009

... lumpy lagoon to speed-spot. We had to stop a couple of times to let the beam-on waves break across the boat... but we've done this before. It was sort of wierd as it felt strong, looked strong....
Friday, 17 April 2009

... a few good days mind you. The crash really hurt us in this respect as we were still 're-dialling' the boat in when the good days were here. Well she's dialled in now. We are all here and ready to ...
Tuesday, 14 April 2009

...be as reactive as possible for whatever comes our way. We spent the morning re-configuring the boat based on the readings we obtained from the strain guage on the rudder during the last two ...
Wednesday, 08 April 2009

...to sail in a softer mode which I hoped would be sufficient for the mile record without endangering the boat. I was going to set the wing at 15 degrees with the main flap pulled on.   ...
Monday, 06 April 2009

...ides. yesterday was a pointless affair so we hit the desert for a welcome break from the routine of the boat. The new tides are working through into the afternoon now. The wind looks OK and ...
Sunday, 05 April 2009

...d now I was getting forced into a corner. I can’t just sheet in and ‘shoot’ in this boat... not in winds this strong anyway. The boat gives me no real feel or feedback apart from ...
Thursday, 02 April 2009

12. MI first sailboat over 50 knots !
(News/General News)
...eached a maximum speed of 54.23 knots (100km/hr) in winds of only 24 knots and became the first sailing boat in the world to complete an official 500 meter run in excess of 50 knots. Macquarie Spe...
Monday, 30 March 2009

..... the Macquarie Innovations team in Australia appear (still to be ratified) to have become the first boat to crack the 50 knot mark. Of course we wanted to be there first... but we weren't. These ...
Friday, 27 March 2009

...he roll-bar. This means the beam is coming back. I've already gone to full lock on the steering and the boat is skidding sideways. We are still doing 45 knots and are about to pull -3.5G's forward and...
Wednesday, 25 March 2009

...ed in altogether new and creative ways. Never mind... we've been here before. We probably have the best boat building team we have had on site and now it's their time to shine. I have just spoke...
Sunday, 15 March 2009

It appears that something failed structurally early on the record attempt today and the boat collapsed and turned over very quickly. Paul has some nasty cuts and was badly concussed. We will repor
Friday, 13 March 2009

...tos from an elevated angle. This now puts her some 30' up in the air and allows her to look down on the boat. No helicopters out here you see!!! We have used the original COMPOTECH spar off the old so...
Monday, 09 March 2009

... down the whole course as I only began to gently power up towards the end as I gained confidence in the boats behaviour. We didn't actually get into the 40's for a while at the start. The kilometer av...
Saturday, 28 February 2009

...'m pretty happy overall with the progression. By the end of the run I wasn't totally confident with the boats behaviour. Whilst the steering was great, the slight pitching was a little concerning. It ...
Thursday, 26 February 2009

...y job today to try and rein it all back in a little. I will not go out there with a view to maxxing the boat out on the first run. We have only done one run so far and although it all looks good... we...
Wednesday, 25 February 2009

...he loaded angle of the main foil. It is after all the main foil which determines the centre line of the boat and not the boat itself. As mentioned in an earlier blog, we use an array of Lasers, jigs a...
Sunday, 22 February 2009

... ventilation (air getting sucked down from the surface at high speed). Actually fitting the foil to the boat takes about a day and a half as we have to be very precise with every angle. The speeds and...
Thursday, 19 February 2009

...cord of 47.36 knots over the 500 meter course. This gave her the unofficial title of the worlds fastest boat... but still 3.21 knots short of the Outright world record currently held by the kitesurfer...
Tuesday, 10 February 2009

... Years later and way North in Airlie Beach, I chanced across a copy of Bernard Smiths 'The 40-knot sail boat' whilst working in a yacht chandlery. It was a chance encounter that would ultimately chang...
Thursday, 29 January 2009

...has just recorded a speed peak of 61 knots this morning. Thus, the flying trimaran is the first sailing boat to reach such an extraordinary speed. Wind conditions were pretty though with an establish...
Monday, 05 January 2009

...ling Team was presented with the first real opportunity to tackle the type of conditions in which their boat was designed to perform. The 17 knot wind was some five knots less than the team had hoped ...
Monday, 05 January 2009

...ed a peak speed of 61 knots during yesterdays morning session, but the gust that accelerated the flying boat also caused it to capsize. The crew, including worldcup rider Anders Bringdal, was not seri...
Monday, 22 December 2008

28. Sailrocket fastest boat on earth ?
(News/General News)
News are just rolling in that Sailrocket in Walvis Bay, Namibia, could have become the fastest boat in the world before ripped in pieces with an incredible airborne. Here are the facts: 51.76
Thursday, 04 December 2008

29. Wot Rocket down !
(News/General News)
...selves unable to de-power at all. And the penalties for that were always likely to be serious, with the boat executing a splendid front roll (nose dive) that the pilots will surely remember for a long...
Thursday, 14 August 2008

...e moon,” says Sean Langman, the creator and pilot of the radical purpose-built Australian 9m sail boat/sail plane called Wot Rocket who is acutely aware of the “race against the French to ...
Saturday, 21 June 2008

31. Countdown for l'Hydroptere
(News/General News)
...e, and the team will carry out stress and deformation measurements on approximately fifty points of the boat. The flying trimaran should be back in the water on 22nd May.  She will first sa...
Saturday, 17 May 2008

32. A new player enters the arena
(News/General News)
Wot Rocket is half sailboat and half sailplane; a nine metre long canoe style hull with two tiny foils, each about a sixth of the size of a Moth foil and a nine metre rigid sail, then a transverse bea
Wednesday, 07 May 2008

33. Interview with Farrel O'Shea
(Press/Interviews)
... up to 47 knots speeds. They are simple more consistent at it. But the major threat is the French/Swiss boat. The technology in that boat is far beyond what we have seen so far in windsurfing. But the...
Tuesday, 22 April 2008

34. Karpathos, GRE
(Featured/Approved Worldcup Spot)
...ver before. For your safety we always have one of our staff looking out for you on the water and a motorboat ready in the water to get you out of trouble immediately if required. The beach bar ...
Thursday, 17 April 2008

35. Monsieur Bielak says good by
(Press/Interviews)
...most likely to develop quickly and it’s easier for them to find spots suitable for speed sailing. Boats also have enormous potential but I think their industry isn’t really committed to re...
Thursday, 17 April 2008

36. Pascal Maka on the Microphone
(Press/Interviews)
... category as us, but they’re making great progress and their performances will enable multi-coque boats to go much faster in open sea conditions. The kitesurfers, who are much closer to us, have...
Wednesday, 09 April 2008

...leaves Alexandre Caizergues and the guys from the Hydroptere… It’s a beautiful and magical boat, it’s certainly made us dream, don’t forget that Fabrice David, my right hand m...
Tuesday, 08 April 2008

38. Hydroptere back in business
(News/General News)
...f 50 knots. The rigging, the platform and the external parts have been finely modified to bring the boat’s speed potential over 50 knots. The next few days will be devoted to a series of...
Thursday, 27 March 2008

...he timing equipment may not be accurate. 3. The record craft may be power assisted or even be a power boat 4. The record attempt may be current or tide assisted. The independent ISAF WSSR C...
Sunday, 10 February 2008

40. Finian Maynard, BVI
(Riders/Riders)
...autical mile record holder, Finian is ready for the next challenges ahead. With activity again from the boat Macquarie Innovation and now Le Hydropthere, the time is now for the next level to be hopef...
Thursday, 03 January 2008

41. Sarah Hebert, ARM
(Riders/Riders)
...: France www.sarah-hebert.com Biography She travelled around the world on a sailing boat for 11 years since she is one month. Starts windsurfing when she was 16 in New Caledonia. W...
Thursday, 03 January 2008

42. Class Rules
(Static Content)
...sp;Sail Numbers  ………………… Section B – Boat Eligibility B.1 General PART II – REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS Sectio...
Thursday, 27 December 2007

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