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UFO 34s are raced at club level both in the United Kingdom and Australia. [7] [11] By modern standards a UFO 34 is a moderate to heavy yacht [12] with good performance, particularly to windward. [13]
The boat was built by Whitby Boat Works in Canada, who completed more than 700 examples between 1962 and 1987, but it is now out of production. [1] [4] Construction was changed during the production run. Early models have a laminated wood mast brace and no liner, with a masonite-cored deck that drains overboard via the toe rail. Later models ...
The Hobie TriFoiler was one of the fastest production sailboats ever created. Introduced in 1994, it was based on a series of boats designed by Greg and Dan Ketterman and sailed by Russel Long, which eventually culminated in Long setting the A-Class Catamaran world sailing speed record in 1992 in the boat "Longshot". That record remains unbroken.
The boat won line honours in the 2015 Fastnet race and the 2015 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, under the leadership of skipper Ken Read. [4] In 2017, Comanche set a new Transpac record, covering 484.1 nmi in 24 hours, for an average speed of 20.2 knots (37.4 km/h). [ 5 ]
Land speed records by surface Category Speed (km/h) Speed (mph) Vehicle Operator Date Certifier Refs On ice: 335.7: 208.6: Audi RS 6: Janne Laitinen 9 Mar 2013 FIA [19] On the Moon: 18.0: 11.2: Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV‑003) Eugene Cernan: 11 Dec 1972 (unofficial) [20] On Mars: 0.18: 0.11: Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity
There have been several versions of the Miss GEICO boat, including one of the fastest offshore powerboats in the world. The most powerful was a 50' Mystic powered by twin Lycoming T-53 turbine engines, reaching speeds exceeding 210 mph (340 km/h); which caught fire during testing on June 30, 2012, in Sarasota, Florida , and burned to the ...
Non-production experimental designs have been built: The French experimental Hydroptère set numerous speed records. The boat attained a record speed of 47.6 knots [32] with a goal of breaking the "50 knot barrier" in 2008. [33] On 4 September 2009, l’Hydroptère broke the world speed sailing record, sustaining a speed of 51.36 knots for 500m ...
The boat has been an Olympic class since it was selected by the International Sailing Federation to be the men's high performance double handed dinghy Sydney Summer Games of 2000. Its derivative featuring a re-designed rig, the 49er FX, was selected by World Sailing to be the women's high performance double-hander at the Rio Summer Olympics of ...