Company SP80 is trying to break the world record for the fastest sailboat. The fastest sailboat speed is currently 65.45 knots — SP80 is gunning for 80 knots, or 92 mph. The SP80 boat was displayed at ...

Just a week after their last record, Phaedo 3 went ahead and snatched the Cowes-Dinard record from Lending Club 2 who had set it earlier in the summer. Reports from on board say the boat topped out at ...

Richard Mille-sponsored project SP80 has revealed its final boat design. The sailboat, which is towed by a large kite, looks to break the world sailing speed record currently set at 68.33 knots (79 ...

The team behind the rocket-like SP80 foiler, which recently reached 51+ knots (59.03 mph), plans to soon cross the magical 54-knot line on its way to beating the speed record of 65.45 knots (75.3 mph) ...

Sailrocket (Bitterne Manor, Southampton, U.K.) is using new design concepts and composites to make its Sailrocket speed sailboat, in hopes of breaking the existing speed record of 46.25 knots (the ...

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