For the athletes of SailGP, hydrofoil racing involves sitting in a "carbon fiber missile" and racing across the water with winds that feel like a hurricane. Sailing 'On the Edge of Control ...

Making it the fastest sailing boat in the world,the 60-foot hydrofoil trimaran has foils under its floats and the outrigger hulls that lifts it five meters above the water. This allows for ...

"What a performance!" Groundbreaking kite-powered sailboat achieves mind-blowing speed: 'A major milestone' first appeared on The Cool Down.

"Well, we built the sailboat to go as fast as we know how to make a sailboat go," he said, speaking of his hydrofoil trimaran. "She'll go about three times faster than the wind speed." ...

French skipper Alain Thébault and his co-skipper Jacques Vincent, with their crew of four Americans, are nearing the halfway point in their attempt to beat the transpacific speed record from Los ...

Two teams, Switzerland's SP80 and France's Syroco, are taking aim at the world speed sailing record in 2022, with a pair of thoroughly remarkable kiteboats that both teams believe can smash ...

Over his long career making boats go as fast as humanly possible, Matt Gotrel has done all kinds of grueling jobs. In the Olympics, he rowed them to the brink of collapse to win gold for Great ...

The catamarans use wings, not sails, and hydrofoils help the boat fly over the water. It’s like a fast video game, with consequences. By Kimball Livingston A generation ago, sailing would not ...

Sailing hydrofoil moths is trickier than a regular sailboat; it has the added component of steering up and down. ... One aspect of the workout: the need to move fast when the boat changes direction.

Transportation. Ferries That ‘Fly’ Could Make It Easy—and Fast—to Travel by Boat A Belfast startup is using hydrofoil technology developed for America’s Cup racing vessels to create ...

L aunched in 1869, the Cutty Sark was the fastest sailing ship of its time. These days the clipper is a London tourist attraction. In its prime, when it dashed across the world carrying tea from ...