And a TP52 is a monohull.

Hydrofoil trimaran speed record. While the Maxi trimaran IDEC SPORT has. A speeding hydrofoil ship rises above the water with only the foils staying under it greatly reducing drag and allowing greater speeds to be reached. More recently a Hysucraft hydrofoil system was designed for the 23-metre trimaran Thunder Child II of Safehaven Marine in Cork Ireland in collaboration with Frank KowalskiThe foils improved Thunder Child IIs performance by nearly 35 per cent.

On 4 September 2009 lHydroptère broke the world record sustaining a speed of 5136 knots for 500m in 30 knots of wind. For those of you unfamiliar with the sport of speed sailing Hydroptere is a one of a kind ultra-extreme trimaran. It planes along 5m above the surface on two hydrofoils that extend at an angle down into the water from the outer stabilisers.

While 12-15 knots is actually quite fast for a racing sailboat in good windy conditions high-caliber racing sailboats can do more than 20 knots in high-wind situations. Resistance displacement ratios of seacraft. The record for the fastest cruising trimaran is held by Thomas Coville.

In late 2012 Vestas Sailrocket 2 achieved a new outright world speed record of 6545 knots 1212 kmh on water at. An incredible hydrofoil. During her Jules-Verne trophy record in 2016-2017 the trimaran Idec sport in the hands of Francis Joyon covered 894 nautical miles in 24 hours and 10 consecutive days at 809 miles 24 h.

Longshot of the Trifoiler Hydrofoil Greg Ketterman built for racer Russel Long on its way to a new world speed record on Canadas Stafford Lake Get premium high resolution news photos at Getty Images. On a cold day in October 1991 a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT led by physicist Mark Drela set a record for the fastest human-powered water craft. In 2009 hydrofoil trimaran Hydroptère set the world speed sailing record on water at 5017 knots 929 kmh sailing at about 17 times the speed of the wind.

Long set the Class A record of 4355 knots on a 500 meter course in Tarrifa Spain in 1993. The Class A world speed record was broken by Longshot owned and sailed by Russell Long. News - 18 January 2019 - Webredactie communicatie.