wind powered speed record

[Grattaway]

Can a yacht go that fast?

Team New Zealand have smashed the wind-powered land speed record.

Glenn Ashby piloted the radical land yacht Horonuku to 222.4kph in just 22 knots of wind on Lake Gairdner in South Australia on Sunday evening.

Conditions finally aligned to better the long-standing record of 202.9km/h recorded by Britain's Richard Jenkins on March 29, 2009.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/americ...d-speed-record

[StuM]

Supposedly an ice yacht beat that speed in 1938!
Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin, John D. Buckstaff.
143mph = 230 kph.


https://www.wihalloffame.com/john-buckstaff