The World is Not Enough - a Millennium 140 - is a luxury 42 metre superyacht that controls a staggering top speed of 70 knots.

Fastest yatch. Azzam the largest yacht in the world at 590 feet recently went through its first sea trials where it hit a staggering 315 knots making it the fastest yacht longer than 300 feet. Lürssen - 45 knotsPhoto. Yacht Skipper Date Average speed 11d 11h 46m 36s Explorer.

It is powered by MAN 2000 hp V12 engines which give it a maximum speed of 60 knots. June 1994 1747 knots 3235 kmh 6d 4h 1m 37s IDEC. 1987 9d 21h and 42min Pierre 1er.

IDEC 3 current outright record holder at 40 days 23 hours 30 minutes and 30 seconds. His latest project the Xenos hyperyacht aims to be the fastest yacht in the world in its class a luxurious yet practical vessel that will serve both billionaire owners and fleet operators. Merijn de Waard SuperYacht Times Shergar a 1983 Lürssen was built to be one of the fastest yachts in the world with her owner at the time requesting a 6100hp gas turbine.

Designers VPLP and Verdier were liberated from the shackles of handicap rules and tasked with creating a yacht. The highest speed officially recorded for a land yacht is 2029 kmh 1261 mph by Greenbird piloted by Richard Jenkins UK at Ivanpah Dry Lake Prim Nevada USA on 26 March 2009. Topping out with a max speed of 701 knots Foners is propelled by two 1280hp MAN engines and three Rolls Royce 6700hp gas turbines driving three Kamewa water jets.

Greenbird is contructed from carbon composites while airflow over the vertical sails propels the craft to reach up to five times the real speed of wind on land. Built in 2000 by Allisteros Bazan yard in Spain Foners is currently the fastest yacht in the world. July 1992 7d 2h 34m 42s Primagaz.

These yachts are the fastest performance superyachts in the world and the luxury yacht companies that design and build these open style sports type motor yachts are Mangusta Overmarine Leopard Sunseeker Baia Couach Baglietto Tecnomar Pershing and Royal Denship to name a few. The first solo record was set by Joshua Slocum in the Spray 1898. Heesens newest 265-foot-long superyacht is not only going to be largest yacht the Dutch superyacht yard has ever built.