October 8 2008

 

The Lüderitz Speed Challenge 2008 has come to an end, and it was a milestone, both for the competitors as well for Xelerator.

 

 

Seb was the first first sailor in the world to hit an average of over 50 knots, 50.52 over the WSSRC-recognised 500m course and wrote history.

 

Unfortunately Seb only had the record for 1 day when Alex took over by having three perfect runs over 50 knots ending up with the new WR of 50.57. Also Robert who has been performing very well got 0.02 knots faster than Seb this is only about 20 cm over the 500m!!

 

Xelerator did prove that there is only one way to Xelerate:

 

Highest Top speed 60.2 (gps), Highest 250m average 54.3 knots(gps) and 5 National records currently on our boards.

 

Outright South Africa (and Africa) speed sailing record - Grant Ross 48.79

 

Outright UK speed sailing record - David Williams – 44.78

 

Spain kitesurf record - Marc Avela    42.76

 

Italy kitesurf record – Zeno Graziani 40.93

 

UK women’s kitesurf record – Jemma Grobbelaar    38.18