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SP80 is vying to have the world's fastest sailboat, breaking the speed record by 17 mph. The company says it's already had its first successful test.

SP80 is a project seven years in the making. It unveils its prototype for the first time at the 2023 Monaco Yacht Show

The SP80 looks like a spaceship with a huge kitesurfing sail, especially among the gleaming superyachts at the Monaco Yacht Show.

The SP80 is a racing sailboat designed to break the world record for wind-powered vessels. Its team wants to set a new record of 92 mph.

It's done! Our little rocket has left the workshop and hit the water for the first time. We were eager to watch her sail on Lake Geneva before sending her

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The final design of a boat aiming to break the world sailing speed record has been revealed.

The spaceship-like SP80 craft has been built with the aim of sailing into the record books, with a top speed of 80 knots (about 92mph) with only the wind as its sole source of power.

(CNN) — For more than eight years, the world sailing speed record has remained unbroken. In November 2012, Australian Paul Larsen reached 65.45 knots (or 121 kilometers per hour/75 mph) in his Vesta Sailrocket 2 in South Atlantic waters off the coast of Namibia. However, two rival teams, one in France and one in Switzerland, are now striving relentlessly towards the same goal: to create the fastest sailboat ever built. One is headed by the former world title holder, and there are two broth...