Monthly Archives: November 2012

68 MPH – “Smashed it!”

A NEW SAILING SPEED RECORD Hand it to Paul Larsen. He’s been at this game for years. Since 2002. I remember talking to him in 2005 in Qatar, UAE, at the start of the round-the-world Oryx Quest, and trying to convince him to run Sailrocket in the protected waters close to the western shore of [...]

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Sixty-one Knots (!)

After years of disappointments, after years of rethinking and redesigning, Briton Paul Larsen closes on the payoff . . . AND AT THE LUDERITZ SPEED CHALLENGE on Tuesday, the windsurfing light was on. Sophie Routaboul checks in . . . After the promising previous days, everyone felt that the 50 knots barrier break cannot be [...]

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