RS600 on inland water ?

Originally posted by JimC

Originally posted by JimC

Originally posted by fizzicist

Go and have a look at what won the speed freaks competition this year and look at the speed

I'm a big 300 fan and find that speed quite preposterous. There's no way I'd believe that speed without a full GPS trace to convince me. Recorded as a max its just got to be a glitch. 
I'm quite sceptical about it myself although being fair to the guy who did record it, he may have just caught that right wave at the right time. I'm also quite sceptical about some of the yachtie results as I've whizzed past like sport boats in pretty extreme conditions and they have seemed to be standing still. I'm also a bit scepticle about this "catching the wave" theory, as when we're going fast, we're going well in excess of the wave speed. Possibly a wave generates a rapid rate of acceleration, which is recorded by the GPS, but whilst the boat reaches top end speed, the GPS is still reacting and therefore still reacting upon the assumption the boat is still in acceleration mode and records a higher untrue speed as there is a delay between when the boat actually stops accelerating and the GPS actually picking up upon that fact, hence spiking. 