Passage records have been sanctioned, since 1972, by the

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 Internati ...

(WSSRC).

Global

Around the world sailing record

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Around the world sailing record The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world was Juan Sebastián Elcano and the remaining members of Ferdinand Magellan's crew who completed their journey in 1522. The first solo record was set by Joshua Slocum in t ...

Hong Kong to London

12948 nm

Transatlantic

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Transatlantic sailing record Since the five-week voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, quickly and safely, between Europe and the Americas has always been an important issue. Today, the route has become a classic one among skippers. The record i ...

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 Hobart

630 nm

Sydney to Lord Howe Island

408 nm

Sydney to Auckland

1265 nm

Pacific Records

Transpacific, Los Angeles to Honolulu

2215 nm

Honolulu to Yokohama

3750 nm

Yokohama to San Francisco

4482 nm

San Francisco to Yokohama