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Contender 541 
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 Topic: Sailrocket hits 60 knots!Posted: 17 Nov 12 at 1:23pm |
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Just wondering if - now the guys have broken the record - they will continue onwards and upwards
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When you find a big kettle of crazy it's probably best not to stir it - Pointy Haired Boss
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Jack Sparrow
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Posted: 17 Nov 12 at 9:53pm |
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Just think you can all experience speeds close to what Sairocket has just achieved. Just take up Landyachting!
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Posted: 17 Nov 12 at 10:29pm |
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And you can turn around and go the other way Jack...
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Rupert
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Posted: 18 Nov 12 at 6:28pm |
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I went faster than Sail Rocket in my car with the boat behind yesterday, too - how is how fast other things go the point? The land yachting equivelent is to try and break their speed record, not what a wheeled vehicle does as a matter of course.
Thanks for posting the video, Mark - great footage. |
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Contender 541
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Posted: 18 Nov 12 at 10:20pm |
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The guys have just posted a 55.3 Knot average for the Nautical Mile (64kt peak) - so that should be the 500m and the Mile records in one week
(subject to ratification)
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Dougal
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Posted: 19 Nov 12 at 8:00am |
L'Hydroptere had that didn't she? Without taking anything away from the achievements of Sailrocket who thoroughly deserve thir success, personally I find L'Hydroptere more exciting to watch. I guess it's down to the size of the thing and the momentum it is carrying.
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Rupert
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Posted: 19 Nov 12 at 9:30am |
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I'm sure L'Hydroptere will be looking forward to trying to get the mile record back - great to have 2 such different boats going so quick.
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Posted: 19 Nov 12 at 10:53am |
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I suspect Hydroptere may have trouble. Seems to me that they are hovering at the limits of their brute force solution. By pushing things right into the cavitation region the Sailrocket people have made a very big advance. The record's been in that incipient cavitation region for a long time - since the early 90s really. Getting right through that is a very big deal indeed.
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Posted: 19 Nov 12 at 10:59am |
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aren't Hydroptere though working on (subject to funding) more boats, in order to circumvent the limits of their venerable craft?
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Posted: 19 Nov 12 at 11:12am |
A bit like the sound barrier in aviation perhaps? The speed performance of land yachts (as Daryl points out) and ice yachts for that matter, demonstrate that it is not so much rig technology holding back performance, but the interface with the water. Sailrocket seem to have invested a lot of effort in this aspect and now it's beginning to pay dividends. Very well done, I wouldn't be surprised if they very quickly add another 5 knots!
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