The Vestas Sailrocket was built to capture the sailing speed record and is piloted by the project leader Paul Larsen. It holds the B-class (150-235 square feet of sail)speed sailing record

Speed sailing record

Speed sailing records are sanctioned, since 1972, by the World Sailing Speed Record Council . Records are measured either by average speed over a specified distance or by total distance traveled during a specified time interval...

with a speed over a 500m distance of 47.36 knots (87.71 km/h).

In 2008, before crashing, Sailrocket reached a reported unofficial speed of 52.22 knots.

External links

• Sailrocket official site
• 3rd of December,2008, world record attempt and crash (52.22 knots) on Youtube