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Passage Sailing Record
Passage records have been sanctioned, since 1972, by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC). Global Around the world sailing record See Around the world sailing record Hong Kong to London 12948 nm Transatlantic See Transatlantic sailing record Northern European Round Britain and Ireland Round Ireland Around the Isle of Wight 50 nm Cowes to Dinard 138 nm Plymouth to La Rochelle 355 nm (Original) Fastnet Course Cowes, Fastnet Rock, Scilly Isles, Plymouth totaling a rhum line distance of 595 nm America's New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn 13225 nm Miami to New York 947nm Antigua to Newport. R I 1560 nm Chicago to Mackinac 289 nm Newport to Bermuda 635 nm Asia Yokohama to Hong Kong 1545 nm Taipei to Hong Kong 465 nm Mediterranean Marseilles to Carthage 455 nm Trieste to Malta 740 nm Monaco to Porto Cervo 195 nm Oceanian Round Australia Sydney to H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Sailing Speed Record Council
The World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) was founded in 1972, initially to ratify records at the inaugural Weymouth Speed Week held every year since in Portland Harbor.The WSSRC is the body authorized by the World Sailing (formerly International Sailing Federation, International Yacht Racing Union) to confirm speed records of sailing craft (boats, windsurfers and kitesurfers ) on water (not on ice or land). In the early years the council only dealt with claims of speed records on a one-way leg of 500 metres. Since 1988 the WSSRC is also responsible for offshore sailing records, because there were several controversial claims about the times of long voyages. The first records recorded in 1972 were the Outright record of Sir Timothy Colman, ''Crossbow'', 26.30 knots (D class); ''Icarus'' 21.6 knots (B class); ''Mayfly'' 16.40 knots and Lief Wagner Smitt, windsurfer 13.6 knots. One or more meetings were held every year and since 2001 the council has had a permanent secretari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch Booth
Mitchell Jay "Mitch" Booth (born 4 January 1963, in Sydney) is a sailor from Australia, who represented his native country for the first time at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Booth as helmsman in the Australian Tornado with John Forbes as crew took Bronze. In 1996, Booth made a second appearance this time with crew member Andrew Landenberger the team took the Silver in the Tornado. In 2004, Athens Booth represented the Netherlands as helmsman of the Dutch Tornado. With crew member Herbert Dercksen Booth took 5th place. His final Olympic appearance came during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Qingdao. Now with crew member Pim Nieuwenhuis in the Dutch Tornado, Booth finished 5th. Sailing career Booth started his sailing career at the age of four, when his mother taught him the basics on Pittwater. Alongside his father John (Jay) Booth won his first State Championship as a seven-year-old boy. His father honored his desire to skipper and compete in international competitions. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Ferris
Sharon Marie Ferris (born 17 January 1974 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada) is an Olympic sailor for New Zealand. Ferris competed at the 1996 and 2004 Olympics. She sailed on ''Amer Sports Too ''Amer Sports Too'' is a Volvo Ocean 60 The Whitbread 60 (W60), later known as the Volvo Ocean 60 (VO60), was a class of ocean racing yacht built to a " box rule" specifying key design parameters of the 10 smaller yachts which took part the ...'' in the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race. References External links * * * * 1974 births Living people New Zealand female sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for New Zealand Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Europe Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Yngling Volvo Ocean Race sailors Canadian emigrants to New Zealand Sportspeople from Scarborough, Ontario 21st-century New Zealand people {{NewZealand-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Larsen
Paul Larsen (born 16 January 1970) is an Australian sailor who has been involved in many extreme sailing projects. He led the 10-year project for the Vestas Sailrocket, which set new nautical mile and 500m world speed sailing records in 2012. He credits Pete Goss as the person who had the greatest impact on his sailing career, and his sailing hero. Paul Larsen was part of Tim Jarvis's six-man crew that in 2013 successfully recreated Ernst Shackleton's famous journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia in the James Caird, a 22.5-foot lifeboat. Larsen successfully navigated the replica vessel, the Alexandra Shackleton, from Elephant Island to South Georgia using the same navigational instruments and methods that Frank Worsley, Shackleton's navigator on the James Caird, would have used. Additionally, after arriving at South Georgia, Larsen, along with Baz Gray, was part of Jarvis's three-man team that traversed the glaciers of South Georgie from King Haakon Bay to the now-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Thompson (sailor)
Brian Thompson (born 5 March 1962) is a British yachtsman. He was the first Briton to twice break the speed record for sailing around the world, and the first to sail non-stop around the world four times. He is highly successful offshore racer on all types of high-performance yachts, from 21-foot Mini Transat racers to 140-foot Maxi Trimarans. Biography He started his career in the OSTAR in 1992 with his own yacht. He sailed a lot on multihulls with Steve Fosset with whom he set several records, mainly the around the world sailing record in 2004. In 2005, he won the Oryx Quest, round the world crewed race, on ''Doha 2006'', ex-''Club Med''. In 2006, he won the Volvo Ocean Race on ''ABN AMRO One'' as a crewmember of Mike Sanderson. The same year, he finished 6th in the Route du Rhum, in IMOCA class. He finished 5th of the Vendée Globe 2008–2009 on a 60 feet IMOCA class '. In 2012, he won the Jules Verne Trophy as helmsman and trimmer for Loïck Peyron, on the maxi-multihu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doha 2006 (yacht)
''Doha 2006'' is a maxi-catamaran, that has participated in many offshore races under several names: * Club Med, skippered by Grant Dalton, for The Race, * Maiden 2, skippered by Tracy Edwards and Brian Thompson, * Doha 2006, skippered by Brian Thompson for the Oryx Quest. It is the sister-ship of Gitana 13, winner of the Jules Verne Trophy with Bruno Peyron. Records * Under the name ''Club Med'' in 2000 : Winner of The Race. * Under the names ''Club Med'' or ''Maiden 2'' 3 times between 2000 and 2002 : Winner of the 24 hours distance record, with, in 2002, {{convert, 694.78, nmi, km. * Under the name ''Doha 2006'' in 2004 : Winner of the Oryx Quest Oryx Quest was the name of the first round-the-world yacht race to start and finish in the Middle East and was held in February 2005 in Qatar. The race, organised by British sailor Tracy Edwards, was regarded as a follow-up to The Race of 2000 an .... References Individual catamarans Individual sailing vessels 2000s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Trullemans
Luc or LUC may refer to: Places * Luc, Hautes-Pyrénées, France, a commune * Luc, Lozère, France, a commune * Le Luc, France, a commune * Luč, Baranja, Croatia, a settlement People and fictional characters * Luc (given name) * Luc (surname) Academia * Leiden University College The Hague, a liberal arts & sciences honours college in the Netherlands * Limburgs Universitair Centrum, now University of Hasselt, Belgium * Loyola University Chicago Other uses * Land-use change * LUC, cryptosystem based on Lucas sequences See also * Château de Luc, a French castle-ruin in the town of Luc in the Lozère ''département'' * Luc-en-Diois, France, a commune * Luc-la-Primaube, France, a commune * Luc-sur-Mer, France, a commune * Saint-Luc (other) * Luk (other) Luk or LUK may refer to: Surname Luk or Loke is the Cantonese romanization of several (but not all) Chinese surnames that are romanized as Lu in Mandarin. It may refer to: *Lu (surname 陆) *Lu (surname 禄) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraser Brown (sailor)
Fraser Brown (born 12 February 1970) is an Irish sailor. He competed in the 49er event at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), .... References External links * 1970 births Living people Male sailors (sport) from Northern Ireland Olympic sailors for Ireland Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – 49er Sportspeople from Newtownards {{Ireland-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Thomson (sailor)
David Thomson may refer to: Business * David Couper Thomson (1861–1954), Scottish publisher, founder of D. C. Thomson & Co. * David Kinnear Thomson (1910–1992), Scottish businessman * David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 1957), Canadian businessman Entertainment * David Thomson (film critic) (born 1941), American-based British film critic * David Thomson (writer) (1914–1988), writer and radio producer * Dave Thomson (born 1982/83), Canadian songwriter, record producer and former member of Wave Politics * David Thomson (Labor Party politician) (1856–1926), Australian politician * David Thomson (New Zealand politician) (1915–1999), New Zealand politician * David Thomson (Australian National Party politician) (1924–2013), Australian politician Sports * David Thomson (footballer, born 1847) (1847–1876), Welsh international footballer * David Thomson (footballer, born 1892) (1892–?), Scottish footballer (Dundee FC and Scotland) * Dave Thomson (foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Leggatt
Nick may refer to: * Nick (given name) * A cricket term for a slight deviation of the ball off the edge of the bat * British slang for being arrested * British slang for a police station * British slang for stealing * Short for nickname Places * Nick, Hungary * Nick, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland Other uses * Nick, the Allied codename for Japanese World War II fighter Kawasaki Ki-45 * Nick (DNA), an element of DNA structure * Nick (German TV channel) * ''Nick'' (novel), a 2021 novel by Michael Farris Smith * Nick's, a jazz tavern in New York City * Désirée Nick, a German actress and writer * Nickelodeon, a children's cable channel See also * Nicks, surname * * * NIC (other) * Nik (other) * 'Nique (other) * Nix (other) * Old Nick (other) Old Nick can mean: * A nickname for the devil in Christian tradition * Niccolò Machiavelli * Old Nick (beer), from Young's Brewery * Old Nick Company, a student theatre co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard James (sailor)
Richard James may refer to: * Richard T. James (1918–1974), American naval engineer, inventor of the Slinky * Richard D. James (musician), real name of British electronic musician and composer, also known for his projects Aphex Twin and The Tuss * Richard D. James (scientist) (born 1952), American mechanician and materials scientist at the University of Minnesota * Richard James (Oklahoma politician) (1926–2013), American politician * Richard James (aviator) (1911–1989), set the junior transcontinental air speed record in 1928 * Richard James (musician) (born 1975), Welsh musician * Richard James (scholar) (1592–1638), British man of letters * Richard James (Australian sprinter) (born 1956), Australian sprinter * Richard James (pagan), founder of Odyssean Wicca * Richard James (tailor), British tailor and menswear company * Richard T. James (politician) (1910–1965), Lieutenant Governor of Indiana * Richard James Simpson (born 1967), American musician, formerly Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Featherstone
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
