{"id":160819,"date":"2021-04-18T17:37:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160819"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:38:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:38:04","slug":"fastest-sailboats-the-teams-aiming-for-a-record-breaking-80-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160819","title":{"rendered":"Fastest sailboats: The teams aiming for a record-breaking 80 knots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It&#8217;s been nearly a decade since Sailrocket set a new record to become the world&#8217;s fastest sailboat. Now two teams are hoping to set a new record with their radical designs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A little over a decade ago the race to create the fastest sailboat, or fastest sail-powered watercraft was on. Ultimately it was Vestas Sailrocket 2 that claimed a new speed sailing record with such a significant jump that the competition cooled for some years.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a French team and a Swiss team are both hoping to set a new record and in so doing become the fastest sailboat known to man.<\/p>\n<p>The 50 knot mark had long been referenced as sailing\u2019s sound barrier due to the difficulty of making a craft capable of sustaining speeds over that elusive figure.\u00a0 But\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/yachts-and-gear\/fastest-sailboat-the-two-teams-hoping-to-set-new-a-new-record-130860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly a decade since Sailrocket set a new record to become the world&#8217;s fastest sailboat. Now two teams are hoping to set a new record with their radical designs A little over a decade ago the race to create the fastest sailboat, or fastest sail-powered watercraft was on. Ultimately it was Vestas Sailrocket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160821,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160819\/revisions\/160821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}