Hydroptere, the world's fastest sailing yacht
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- When it comes to speed, Hydroptere has no problem leaving the competition behind. This attitude undoubtedly comes from Alain Thébault, who spent years exploring multihull hydrofoil designs to develop one of the world's fastest boats. ("Hydro" is Greek for "water." "Ptere" is Greek for "wings.")
During the 1980s and '90s Thébault adjusted his design repeatedly. By making a one-third scale version of his idea, he was able to test the differences of minor changes on the craft's overall performance. By 1994, he was ready to launch Hydroptere for her first flight. By 1995, Thébault had turned her into the world's fastest sailing yacht.
Wow that's incredible! It's a180nm to
Key West from my marina just think how fast I could get there with this, no more using up my vacation time. 😂😂😂 what a fantastic look at the future of sailing.
And now the AC36 boats are smashing that all the time in practice. 49plus in racing. Just shows how thing evolve
Correct, we have to thank this boat for starting the change.
The AC75's are by far not seaworthy boats. The aim of Eric Tabarly and Alain Thébault was to design and build a foiling hull that was capable of taking on the sea, not a souped up racehorse of a hull that needs computers and hydraulic force.
They succeeded.
The AC 75's are like dinghies that should stay inshore while the Hydroptère can, and has, crossed oceans years before anybody was slightly interested in foiling. The brain child of one of the most innovative and successful yachtsmen of all times. The father of offshore racing; Eric Tabarly.
Si colon ubiera tenido uno ufff que maravilla..que ingenio del que lo creo...felicidades...
Fantastic. Восхищён.
Just incredible.
Absolutely Amazing! Love it!
Thank you! Cheers!
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What a weapon
Rock steady wind & reasonably flat water, look at her go!
That’s not sailing, that’s flying.
The answer is in the name: hydroptère: « water flyer » 😄
The cartel have just bought one for there runs 😂😂🤣
I now believe Pharoah Khufu's flying boat was a hydrofoil
She certainly was!!! Hahaha
Could they not reach higher speeds if they decided to turn a bit to the left to have a more open wind?
It is hard to assume this just from the video. What I know is that they been trying to control this beast for quite some time before they try the attempt to break the speed record and they did it years ago. This boat set the new standards for all the foiling boats we can see sailing today.
this is speed wow.
Yes, it is very serios speed just provided by the wind.
It's flying. That ship is flying.
Why not tell us jow fast she was going
50,17 knots. Stated in the intro and in the video in two different languages 😂
If we were to put a SailGP side by side in the same situation, which one would be faster?
Thanks for your comment. Sail GP or even Americas Cup superyachts can't get any closer to these speeds, they nearly never pass the 40knts yet. The only sailing machines that can get close to these speeds are windsurfing boards and some other specially designed sailing boats.
@@NAVISmagazine I think that SailGP regularly hit 47 knots (54 mph), they would be close. But maybe yes, they do it in rather short bursts of speed, not as long as 1 mile. But also they race in close quarters circuits, I think it would be interesting nevertheless. A SailGP, theoretically, has all it takes: foils that allow it to fly so water drag reduced to a minimum. Thin hulls, so good air drag too, and rigid "aircratf wing type" sails, aupposedly the more efficient. Compared to that, Hydroptere seems heavier and more conventionally rigged, although it seems to be able to sustain speed on rougher seas and have a more stable fly. I'm not sure if I read somewhere that SailGP were designed on purpose for a more inestable fly, so more demanding for the crew for making races more interesting, but not sure if it was a hoax.
Hydroptere seems a design closely related to that of Tabarly's Paul Ricard from the 80's, at least to the original idea for the Paul Ricard, a flying machine (it ended being only a reducing wet surface foiling type, not fully flying)
@@alamos8 I didn't know they reached 47knts; that is surprising. Think that Hydroptered did this in 2009 when no one was talking about foils. By the way, all the foils we can see these days are because of this boat. The team tried to sail her in the open ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii. They were building Hydroptere II for this, but I don't know what happened with this project. I'll do some research. Today the monohulls foilers are running the Vendee Globe race. These guys are hitting the real world with their boats. We are reporting daily through NAVIS Magazine @navismagazine Instagram / Facebook page. So far, four days out and 3 boats from 30 competing are heading back to port for repairs.
@@NAVISmagazine Yes Hydroptere has all the credit for exposing the foils potential to the sailing world. On offshore racing, yes, top of the range Imoca 60s are foiling. They can even fly with full hull above water in a rather strange heeling stance, but only in good specific conditions. Most common, their foils are used to reduce heeling adding power to the sails and reduce wet surface, but not fully flying.
The other offshore foiling monsters are the Ultim category trimarans, like Gitana17, that in good conditions are also able to fully fly and hit around 47 knots (they think they could touch 50, but I think they didn't get it still).
Seems that breaking 50 knots is the holly grail of sailing these days (Hydroptere did it), like it was breaking the sound barrier on the first days after WWII
@@alamos8 Great info; I think we are not too far from the 50Knts barrier. I am curious to see what will happen at America's Cup this December. I am looking forward to it. Now the sport at these speeds is getting dangerous.
the helo is pushing as well
126kph??????????? Thats truely insain, imagine if you fell off? youd probably break something from the impact!
Microsoft Word sorry 😐 but It ´s 50 knots or nautic miles per hour which is a bit more than 90 km/h .
@@nicolasartheau822 ah ur right idk where i got 126 from haha
Is this faster than the hydrofoil catamarans? How many knots does this go?
Actually, she is the boat that started the foil revolution, in 2009 she was making over 50knts, today's foilers can go a little faster. We saw America's cup last week, with 12knts of wind they were making 49kts of speed. That is really a new achievement.
@@PabloFerreroUSA I used to race Tornado catamarans and Nacra 6.0. The Nacra 6.0 fleet that I was sailing with was the first to use spinnakers on a catamaran. If we understood back then what we know today, it would have been so much more radical.
@@robertlaird6746 spinnakers must be completely obsolete with these boat or?
@@per.kallberg Of course spinnakers and even possibly reacher would not need to be used or even wanted because they would hinder the performance due to apparent wind and speed. You need flat sails and are always close hulled.
I wonder how I am going to turn my 16 kayak into a hydrofoil, using my nephews and nieces as the crew and counter-weights. And, I don't even know how to swim. LOL.
Imagine if they had this technology 300 years ago for sailing, what would have changed about everything.
We totally agree!!!
Hi, thanks for our comment. It was impossible to achieve these speeds years ago, mainly because of the materials needed to build the foils didn't exist. From now on, we will see increasing speeds every year in every type of sailing yacht. Now, who knows which is the new limit.
If they were to have this tech 300 years ago, they would have invented the airplane
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Don't the AC75's go faster?
No, they have yet to attain 50 knots. L'Hydroptere bested that speed over a decade ago.
Nice faster
I can swim faster
Noop, it's not.