It looks very dangerous to have your body hanging over the hard edge of the canal, with no helmet. Total trust in the equipment and your skills...respect!
Do keep the Zen ! Water is like a brickwall if in thouble just let go and disconnect your harness asap from the boom and then go from there to another go !!
absolutely stunning - fantastic footage and surfing on the edge - literally. Hitting that wall on that speed whould not only break the gear. thanks for taking us with you and big respect for the speed.
Herzlichen Glückwkunsch Bub !!! Wer hätte das gedacht ! Unglaubliche Fahrt - sieht sehr easy aus auf dem Wasserski ...Alles Gute und gute Heimreise....
Sick video, Andy! Very well showed that sensation of ultra fast speed sailing on the edge and limit of human and gear abilities. It was nerve wrecking when you looked at the camera an nearly hit the sand bags. Keep pushing. Your videos are very inspiring!
Love your movies Andy your love of the sport really comes through in the movies you make. I find the helmet cam view to be the most immersive for the Luderitz footage. It really gives a sensation of speed.
Impressive, yes. But unless I'm missing something, the advertised 102.35 km/h topspeed was an instantaneous reading, not an official average over a 500 meter course. According to the Ludderitz speed challenge results from 2021, the top official speed was 97.57 km/h, or 52.68 knots/hr. Fast, yes. But for perspective, Paul Larsen's Sail Rocket II team absolutely smashed the world speed sailing record in 2012 with an astonishing speed of 65.45 knots, or 121.21 kph, beating the old world speed record by just shy of 10knots. An unutterably magnificent achievement. At that time Paul Larsen stamped the speed record so high that as to put it out of reach for an astounding 10 year...at least. There's now a team (see: "SP-80") chasing a new record with a fantastically out-of-the box approach, gunning for 80 knots in 2023. Best of luck to them. These are amazing times!
Great stuff. Really liking raw footage with the wind audible, over slick beatmatched video cuts to an audio track now. Gonna stop watching now and jump from a 1080 monitor to my 4K tv to enjoy this more!
Thanks for posting this unique sport. And thanks for all the videos angles. Sailed The Gorge in some high winds but never with flat water, must be fun.
Wow, that looks like so much fun! It looks like they always start with spin out. I guess once you’re up to speed with a relatively big sail for the conditions you’re going to want a small fin. I couldn’t imagine gaining such speed while going sideways!
World record : go for it Andy! Train your body at the gymnase sometimes with specific exercices, and i think you can explose the world record. You gear seems to be good, nothing can't stop you, come on! Thank you for the video brother.(excuse my english spoken : is very bad, however i hope your understand the message.) Take care.
Off the planet ,great stuff ,I don't know what to say ,speeds equalling the record and almost the outright recorded ,incredible ,do they say you have the GPS or outright world record ,my speeds are 53.7 knots or 99.3km/h average at speed trial event and police radar speeds of 102 km/h and 104 km/h radar checking 4km/h slow ,incredible to watch and Verry inspirational ,kind regards Perry from australia
Merci beaucoup, Mr Laufer, géniales images. -Lorsque vous naviguez à 100 km/h la force du vent ce jour là est à combien de knots s'il vous plait? -A cinquante noeuds de vent personne ne part naviguer? Vielen Dank, Herr Laufer für die tollen Bilder. -Wenn Sie mit 100 km / h segeln, ist die Windstärke an diesem Tag wie viel Knoten bitte? - Bei fünfzig Knoten Wind wird niemand segeln?
Le canal n'est pas assez long , la phase de lancement ne permet pas d'attendre la vitesse moyenne avant la ligne de départ. Il faut être puissant sur l'accéleration pour réaliser une performance?
Cool to watch your vids : "Hans Kreisel was in World Record mode, pushing hard and he could break the Dutch National Record of Vincent Valkenaers already in the beginning" Vincent is not Dutch but Belgian ;-)
