The fastest yacht in the world title goes to World is Not Enough - Millennium 140 this luxury 42 metre 140 superyacht has a top speed of 70 knots.

Fastest boat speed in knots. However it is estimated that Warby reached an estimated 300 knots 555 kmh or 34486 mph. Ad Speed - Play Now For Free Online In Your Browser. But a boat too can go fast.

Ad Speed - Play Now For Free Online In Your Browser. And thats not even top speed. In fact the fastest boat record is 27597 knots or 510kmhr.

Fastest monohull world record circumnavigation - 1543 knots Fastest trimaran world record circumnavigation - 27 knots Monohull - Your average sailboat is a monohull. Designed by Mulder Design she is brainchild of John Staluppi and John Rosatti built in 2004 by Millennium Superyachts. There are 6076 feet in a nautical mile as it is the same as a minute of latitude which is from where it was derived.

A knot came to mean one nautical mile per hour. Your answer may be 6076 times 25 divided by 5280 which gives statute miles per hour. 3176mph 511 kmh was the fastest boat speed ever recorded.

At that speed its believed to be the fastest yacht longer than 300 feet. The top speed recorded for the Draken Harald Hårfagre is 14 knots a full three knots shy of the Skudelev 2s top speed. The maximum speed of a boat depends on its size type engine power horsepower design consideration and weight.

Based on the length of a nautical mile knots were tied at specific intervals along the ropes length at 144 meters to. For example the maximum speed of cargo ships. The official world water speed record is 27597 knots 51109 kmh or 31758 mph by Ken Warby in the unlimited-class jet-powered hydroplane Spirit of Australia on Blowering Dam Lake New South Wales Australia on 8 October 1978.