I wonder if she knows now how fortunate she was to have been able to experience that wonderful encounter? This little girl just experienced what VERY few people on the planet will experience. I’ve been out in the kayak to watch the whales but I think that was way too close – lucky they didn’t breech the water. Wasn’t it in OZ where the whale breeched, landed on a 30′ yacht and smashed the mast coming down. I don’t think the canoe would fair that well.
NEWS FLASH – The outright world speed sailing record was smashed this afternoon (November 24) by Paul Larsen in the Vestas Sailrocket 2 with the astonishing time of 65.37 knots. (75.23 mph – 121.06 km/h). See Paul’s blog for the very latest as it happens.
The below article was posted just a few hours before the latest new record was run and has not been changed.
In a spectacular week for sailing, more than a dozen world speed sailing records have been broken at two different venues in Namibia. The outright speed sailing records for both 500 meters (59.38 knots) and one nautical mile (55.32 kts) were set in Walvis Bay by Australian Paul Larsen and the British-designed, inclined-rig hydrofoil Vestas SailRocket 2. Simultaneously, 600 km away, the annual Luderitz Speed Challenge has seen nine world outright speed records for sailboards established in just a week, including … More
On the 16/11/12 VESTAS Sailrocket 2 set out on it’s 13th run for this session Walvis Bay Namibia. In moderate conditions with around 25 knots of wind average… VSR2 smashed the previous Outright world record by the biggest margin in the records history*. Paul larsen averaged 59.23 knots over the record 500 meter course and peaked at over 63 knots. The waters of Walvis Bay became speed sailing holy turf and the home of the Outright record for the first time. This represents the culmination of 10 years hard work. The team promise it still represents the beginning of this boats potential. Africa turned on a spectacular setting and the flamingoes are just the icing. You couldn’t make that stuff up. Happy days.