Blown Away. VESTAS Sailrocket 2 truly smashes the Outright world speed sailing record*

24th of November,2012. This is the day that VESTAS Sailrocket 2 took speed sailing into a whole new era. Having already broken the existing Outright world speed sailing record by the biggest margin in the records history a little over a week earlier, the team took to the waters of Walvis Bay in strong winds to try and be the first to take the sport over the 60 knot average mark. This video shows the third run of the day. The record attempt had been plagued by unusually light winds but they knew that on t