Macquarie Innovation - http://www.macquarie.com.au/speedsailing.htm





Macquarie Innovation

A further refinement of past record holder, Yellow Pages Endeavour which set the record in 1993 at 46.52 knots in only 19 to 20 knots, Macquarie Innovation has undergone a lot of tuning over the AUS winter in preparation for it's record attempts later this year.

MI is skippered by champion helmsman of the Yellow Pages C Class, Simon McKeon. They also currently races a Capricorn F18 with his son in Victoria.
So far they have reached a speed off 46.48 knots across the 500m course in only 17 knots of breeze. They are only waiting on the required 20 knots they believe will see them the first to break the 50 knots. They have already achieved in excess of 49 knots over short periods in less than ideal winds.



Yellow Pages Endeavour.

Hopefully later in the year I will head down to Sandy Point to check these guys out in the flesh.