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The 150km/h they target is nothing compared to the speed records in motorboats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nloF0eF-zFs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nloF
by TomK32 3y ago
The 150km/h they target is nothing compared to the speed records in motorboats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nloF0eF-zFs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nloF0eF-zFs
Here's some difference to the motorboats,those pointy tubes sitting on the water surface with a big (jet) engine in your back pushing you. The Vestas has its sail off to the side and even a foil still in the water which will give it stability. The sailboats with the kites are being pulled and I imagine in a situation where you cut the rope, the impact into the water is quite predictable and in a straight line, very different from the wild accidents of high speed motorboats.
- wolverine876 3y agoThe motorboats have all that engineering, testing, and regulation I talked about. Airplanes go even faster, but I know how safe they are.
- marcinzm 3y agoThey do now but not when they first reached those speeds.
- QuadmasterXLII 3y agoOut of the 13 people who have attempted the motorboat speed record since 1930, 7 have died in the attempt.
- mcv 3y agoI guess those numbers explain why so few have tried. Mind you, these are much higher speeds. I looked it up, and the motor boat speed record is over 500 km/h.