Breaking transatlantic sailing record by more than a day (2016)
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> Even the most daunting world records are meant to be broken… eventually. For elite navigator Stan Honey and a crew of sailing all-stars, beating the prestigious monohull transatlantic sailing record was the ultimate accomplishment. And it was no easy feat. On July 22, 2016, the Comanche—a custom-built, 100-foot racing yacht—set sail from New York to the southern tip of England. Precisely five days, 14 hours, 21 minutes and 25 seconds later, the Comanche’s crew shattered the world record … by more than a day. Brave the high seas as we set sail on one of the most amazing and inspiring journeys ever to take place on film.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDmz9iqyeSU
A few years ago Scorpios was built to be even faster than Comanche:
* https://www.yachtingworld.com/supersail/fastest-yacht-the-gi...
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3tpu7tgVqc
Note: the above are non-foiling designs. If you go with foils then you can go much faster:
The trimaran Banque Populaire V [1] has the unrestricted record at 3d 15h 25min 48s and 33 knots [2]. This is pretty staggering when you compare it to something like the transatlantic voyage of Christopher Columbus at ~61 days.
Banque Populaire V was more than twice the length and sail area of the Santa Maria, but ~15% the weight.
How racers manage to do the vendee globe (solo, from france around-the-world back to france) in just 80 days with just sails and ropes as engines is beyond me.
FYI the fastest solo sail around the world was set in 2017 at 40 days in a Trimaran
[1] http://www.youtube.com/@patricklaine6958
Edit: official channel URL
On hiatus from sailing due to family reasons; most recent video:
Not to dimish their perfomance, but still worth noting that they are taking the curves as tightly as anyhow possible. Which is okay, I guess, it's a race after all.
https://www.vendeeglobe.org/themes/custom/front/dist/assets/112114cd193fee4caebf.webp
https://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/what-vendee-globe
This is of course ok, given that any other criteria would be equally subjective.
Going through Panama, the Phillipines and back through Suez honestly seems way better. Aside from the part where they get shot and killed off the coast of Somalia of course.
The route is chosen due to an unobstructed path ‘around the world’ in the Southern Ocean.
Tides/currents make a huge difference too. There is a right way and a "wrong way round" when sailing the globe. Rather than head south from europe and left towards asia, you turn right towards the south pacific.
Yes, but people have gone the "backwards" way as well:
> The oldest person to sail around the world singlehandedly and non-stop is Bill Hatfield (Australia, b. 14 January 1939), who was aged 81 years 39 days when he sailed into The Spit on Australia's Gold Coast on 22 February 2020. He embarked on his eight-month (295-day) solo circumnavigation – on the more challenging westerly route, against the prevailing winds – on 8 June 2019 in his 11.5-m (38-ft) yacht L'Eau Commotion.
* https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-pe...
then you should check this amazing sailor named Yann Quenet who built his own 4m sailboat [1] (yes 4m is crazy) on which he did a circumnavigation and once he came back worked at improving his little boat and just left 8 days ago for another circumnavigation.
He has been documenting his journey on youtube[2]:
ref:
Mindblowing:
https://www.imoca.org/en/news/news/team-malizia-s-boris-herr...
Sailing in front of a weather system to get optimal wind for your sails is not surfing.
Imprecise language is sloppy and problematic for people with a functional vocabulary. Surfing is a technique used in sailing and this isn’t the same thing.