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This needs to cover the fact that the speed sailing windsurfers are using a kilometer long man-made trench for their 500m speed records, which gives them far better conditions than can typically be had for larger craft--nice, flat water and winds over 40 knots--really the windsurfers are quite slow, barely beating windspeed.[1] The C-class catamarans in the 1976 Little America's Cup were doing more than 1.5x windspeed on a reach in winds as light as 5 knots and were down to 1.2x windspeed in 15 knot winds (being optimized for light winds), and the Yellow Pages Endeavour made its 46 knot record in 19-20 knot gust, for 2.3x windspeed. scot21:05, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You should know about this and comment. One of our editors has systematically depopulated it (from this article among many others), and thinks that is a good reason to delete it. 7&6=thirteen (☎)12:36, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
