Building the world's fastest sailboat

Did you know that hydrofoils are limited to about 100km/h because of some fancy physics thing called cavitation? Well that's pretty much been the benchmark of fast wind-powered boats. In fact the fastest speed every recorded by a sailboat has stood since 2012 topping out at 121km/h. That's all about to change though with two teams racing to smash that record by at least another 50km/hr if not more! The Syroco & SP80 boats are a new generation of design with very different looks to one another, but both using a giant kite-like sail to propel them. The Syroco model is barely a boat in my opinion and more floats above the water's surface, meanwhile the SP80 looks like some bad ass shit straight out of Mass Effect that skims along the water's surface in a frictionless-like manner.


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