MariCha IV; the former record holder for monohulls (before the current volvo ocean boats) was 140 ft. itself.

Besides the VOR70's only need to find another 26 % additional speed to equal the cat record. That is not too much to ask is it ? Relatively speaking this is only about the difference between a Hobie 14 and a Formula 18 racing cat.


Also 2 second long GPS readings are not at all reliable. I have a track that shows my doing 102 km/h for 3 seconds on my GPS.

Personally I always had very strong doubts about any boarder doing 40 knots while skipping over 3 ft chop. That is some major suspensions system you guys got there in your knee joints. Otherwise you are more airborn and in the water, which is slow.

I have no doubt that a windsurfer in a special prepared ditch or narrow lake with exactly the right conditions will beat any production racing beach catamaran in all-out speed. The question that interests me personally the most is what happens when the conditions are not absolutely windsurfer perfect in this sense. As with the German boat show wager. In my experience the windsurfers very quickly fall of their groove and become pretty average. Throw in some windward-leeward course (for which the racing cats are truly designed) and the comparison becomes alot different.

But I really do like theat video though.

With respect to ORMA 60 tri getting serious about speed take a look at this :

http://www.xs4all.nl/~whijink/Orma_tri_gpseries_2005.mpeg


Wouter