Paddling atop a 60-foot waterfall — while inside nothing more than a glorified milk jug — Chris Korbulic’s mind calmly analyzes the speed, trajectory and technique that make kayaking over mega-waterfalls more about precision than insanity.
Korbulic envisions launching his kayak over the waterfall lip, then bear-hugging his 9-foot plastic boat as he plunges vertically at more than 45 mph.
Together they either will slip cleanly into the pool below like an Olympic diver, or they will fall flat and turn his pelvis into pick-up sticks… DetailsÂ
Motors will be roaring and Santa Rosa Sound will be packed with personal watercraft and riders for the 2009 Jet Ski “X2travaganzaâ€Â April 24-26 at Navarre Beach.
The second annual extravaganza will take place just offshore from Juana’s Pagodas. “Last year we had the event on Pensacola Beach and had about… Details
SPEED RECORD: The 50kt sailing barrier has been broken by a ‘conventional’ craft after Australia’s Macquarie Innovation powered down the 500m course at Sandy Point, Victoria, at an average speed of 50.43 knots.
The run, made on 26 March in winds of only 24 knots, saw Macquarie Innovation reach a maximum speed of 54.23 knots (100km/hr) and become the first sailing boat in the world to complete an official 500m run in excess of 50 knots.
The record claim by the Macquarie Speed Sailing Team is now being prepared …Â Details
Two Australian sailors have just broken the speed barrier of 50 knots in their sailing boat Macquarie Innovation, whilst a British engineer has become the fastest human on earth powered by the wind alone, in a land sailing boat.
On the morning of 26 March on the ‘dry’ Lake Ivanpah in California, USA, The Greenbird, driven by British engineer Richard Jenkins, smashed the world land speed record for wind powered vehicles.
The Greenbird clocked 126.1 mph (202.9 km/h) , eclipsing the old, American held, record of 116 mph, set by Bob Schumacher in the Iron Duck in March 1999 at the same location…Â