Monohull up to 60 foot.
Monohull speed record. The highest speed ever reported is from the crew of Vestas Sailrocket 2. 16 rows Monohull 5d 14h 21min 25s Comanche fastest monohull Casey Smith AUS Stan Honey. They covered 530 nautical miles in 24 hours beating the record by 43 miles.
1953kts 2012 Macif 60ft Francois Gabart FRA 53448nm. One of the fastest and most futuristic sailing designs in history has been unveiled by Emirates Team New Zealand. On 24 November 2012 they recorded a top speed of 6833 knots in a 2529-knot wind.
Fastest monohull world record circumnavigation - 1543 knots Fastest trimaran world record circumnavigation - 27 knots Monohull - Your average sailboat is a monohull. Monohull singlehanded 2000 Union Bancaire Privee 60ft Dominique Wavre FRA 4307nm. Previously the highest speed ever reported was from the crew of lHydroptère.
Jean-Philippe CHOMETTE FRA on CityJet has smashed the Round Ireland monohull record subject to ratification from the World Sailing Speed Record Council WSSRC. While competing in the 2015 Transatlantic Race Comanche covered a distance of 61801 nm averaging 2575 knots July 20 2015. During an attempt on 21 December 2008 at Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône they recorded a top speed of approximately 61 knots speed not verified or registered on any.
The Spanish raceboat one Digital Boat Show. The 60 foot monohull took over three quarters of day off the existing record of 75 hours 27 minutes and 33 seconds set in 2002 by Gary KEEGAN IRL on Irish Independent. In April 2005 the VO70 Movistar broke the 24 hour world monohull speed record when she sailed 530 nautical miles.
The skipper of a speed-sailing monohull is promising to smash all existing records after the yachts designers launched a 35-foot replica of the aspiring record-setter. 58 mph was claimed based on computer simulations. 1794kts 2003 AT Racing 60ft Alex Thomson GBR 46872nm.