October 3 2008

The Fifty Knot barrier and new world record falls to France’s Sebastien Cattelan.

It was a massive Friday at the Lüderitz Speed Challenge, with a new world record, and the magic 50 knot barrier broken by Sebastien Cattelan of France with a blistering run of 50.26 knots (93kph).

In the 35 to 40 knot winds that blew today, gusting to more than 45 knots (83kph), the speed sailors braved very rough water conditions to achieve these records speeds, with numerous runs by top sailors of over 49 knots. Several new outright records were set:

Sebastien Cattelan 50.26 knots – new world outright speed sailing record, and the first person to break the magic “50 knot” barrier. According to Cattelan, his record breaking run of today saw a maximum speed of 58 knots – 107kph – on the GPS, with an average of 54.5 knots over 200m.

We at Xelerator are proud that Seb got the world record and that he is the first to break the magical 50 knots barrier. He deserves it and he got paid for his enormous drive to come up with something better and train harder than anyone else – well deserved!!!!

It’s good for us to see that our speed development program headed by Seb showed some very good results so far:

1 World record and 5 National records!!!