HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - By Taylor Preza After 10 days, two hours, and 26 minutes, the World's Fastest Sailing Boat, the Hydroptère, finally arrived at Kewalo Basin from Los Angeles in attempt to ...
Last November, in southwest Africa, a landmark moment occurred in the history of sailing when Paul Larsen pegged the outright world sailing speed record. In recent years the record was eclipsed in ...
"She was a one-of-a-kind, the only ship in her class. She featured a titanium hull and twin 177 megawatt VM-5m pressurized water reactors coupled to two 80,000 horsepower steam turbines. This ...
It’s sad that a champion vehicle of any kind should be kept away and forgotten for more than a decade. Any boat, especially a record-breaking one, should be out at sea. And that’s exactly what’s going ...
As billion-dollar catamarans skim across the ocean vying to best each other in the world's fastest sailing race, the win may not always go to the best sailors. Sometimes, a victory in the America's ...
The fastest sailboats on the planet are back in town this week for two days of high-speed, high-tech, and high-impact racing with the SailGP international competition. Sailing on performance F50 ...
With this caution in mind, I kept my mouth shut and stayed well out of the way. And what a ride I was in for. America’s Cup craft are the most exotic, expensive and fastest racing wind powered boats ...
already had a man overboard. As the amateur sailors eased the 28-foot Cal 28 into the North Portland Harbor, the current grabbed the boat's keel and pulled the ship west. It headed for a line of ...
French skipper Alain Thébault and his co-skipper Jacques Vincent, with their crew of four Americans, are nearing the halfway point in their attempt to beat the transpacific speed record from Los ...