Fastest dinghy?

Originally posted by Phil eltringham .... every holder of speed sailing records has been either a cat or proa.

I think you'll find the 500m record has never been held by a catamaran, always proas and boards. Catamaran based attempts at 500m speed records seem to have been consistently unsuccessful.

But we're off topic, this was about fastest dinghy in a straight line burst.

this is a yachts and yachting article so there ya go id like to see a dinghy beat that record!!!!!

Records were set on Loch Ness on Saturday (August 28) when the crew of a Tornado Sport catamaran turned in the fastest time ever set for a non-stop race from the northern end of the 24-mile long loch to the southern end and back again.

Minnis Bay SC crew Chris Fields and Mike Spelling stormed to victory in their Tornado Sport to finish the Caley Marina Loch Ness Monster Race in under four hours and they set a blistering return leg covering 24 miles in just 1hour 19 minutes and 53 seconds. The top-rated pair from Kent completed both legs in 3 hours 47 minutes 49 seconds.

16 knots I make that. Very impressive feat of endurance to sail that fast for so long, I'm sure I couldn't.

Jim, please don't miss quote me, I did say "nearly every"

Brian, the problem with foiling is that at about 40 knots foils begin to cavitate, its very complex but suffice to say that its an upper limit which there is little point in trying to push as there are better ways of heading towards the magic 50 knot figure. 

90 degree gybing angle, just multiply by 1.4 and you've got speed through the water - 22.5 for 16 VMG

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