Lüderitz Speed ​​Challenge

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Coordinates: 26 ° 41 ′ 13 ″  S , 15 ° 8 ′ 53 ″  E

Zara Davis 2013 at the Lüderitz Speed ​​Challenge

The Lüderitz Speed ​​Challenge (in German  about Lüderitz Speed ​​Competition ) is an annual speed competition in kite and windsurfing . This has been taking place in Lüderitz in the southwest of Namibia since 2007 . It is recognized by the World Sailing Speed ​​Record Council (WSSRC) and the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) and is considered one of the most important and largest competitions of its kind worldwide.

Records

As part of the Lüderitz Speed ​​Challenge (as of August 2015) twelve world records and 75 national Namibian records were broken. Kite surfers were the first to break the 50 knot mark as an average speed of over 500 m. The Speed ​​World Ranking on the website of the Lüderitz Speed ​​Challenge offers an overview of the world's fastest sailors - currently with the Australian Paul Larsen at the helm, who achieved an average speed of 55.32 knots (102 knots) on November 18, 2012 , 45 km / h) over a nautical mile, and on November 24 of the same year set world records for the fastest sail-powered watercraft with the Vestas Sailrocket 2 at 65.45 kn (121.12 km / h) over 500 m , but this was before the coast of Namibia and not on the channel of the Lüderitz Speed ​​Challenge.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Record flood at the "Lüderitz Speed ​​Challenge". Allgemeine Zeitung, November 15, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2014
  2. ↑ Speed ​​Challenge: Best wind and kite surfers in Lüderitzbucht Allgemeine Zeitung, August 25, 2015 accessed on May 29, 2017
  3. ↑ The hunt for the world record , Simon Ribnitzky, October 10, 2008, in Yacht Online , accessed on May 28, 2017
  4. ↑ World speed ranking list of the Lüderitz Speed ​​Challenge ( memento of the original from June 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 28, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / luderitz-speed.com
  5. ↑ Fable world records for Sailrocket 2 , Dieter Loibner, November 19, 2012, in Yacht Online , accessed on May 28, 2017