>yfw fastest marine circumnavigation was done under power of SAIL.
Not only the fastest marine circumnavigation, but absolutely BTFO power boats, completing their circumnavigation 15 DAYS faster than the fastest power boat.
Powerboats absolutely BTFO!
The seas belong to SAIL POWER!
>>946768
>French boat
>boat plastered with French sponsor name
>English markings in the front
Strong yuropean identity.
>>946768
The average speed was 26 knots, most ocean liners and military ships cruise at 30+ knots. I have a feeling there are thousands of powered ships that could beat this record. Also I am getting sick and tired of round the world records being set by going around Antarctica. Round the world means following the equator as close as possible which means passing through the Suez and Panama canals.
>>946821
Around the world doesn't mean following an equatorial route, it implies it. You're implying that the context is inaccurate. I get what you're saying, but who cares?
If most all people in sailing say 'around the world' and they mean achieving it by sailing around the tip of South America and South Africa then there is no other context to need to frame it in. The precedence has long since been set and the same definition used for a very long time.
Also, good luck sailing the equator with your doldrums. Perhaps you can harness all that anger to fill your sails as you set your world record.
>>946821
>I have a feeling there are thousands of powered ships that could beat this record.
Could they? What power boat that goes so fast could do so without constant fuel stops? Besides, they're totally unenvironmental.
Sailboat only needs food and water for the crew, no nasty hydrocarbons.
Pic related, record holder for power boats (61 days). Got rekt by SeaShepherd retards who played chicken with a fishing ship.
Twin 540Hp engines and got BTFO by over two weeks lmao. POS's top speed is only 34 knots, even there it gets BTFO by L'Hydroptere at 56 knots and Vestas Sailrocket II at 65 knots.
Isn't she majestic?
>>946821
>so I am getting sick and tired of round the world records being set by going around Antarctica
To be fair boats like the Banque Populaire V may well not be able to traverse equatorially, it's beam is 75', too big for the Suez at least.
>>946768
>The seas belong to SAIL POWER!
Alrighty then.
>>946951
Daily reminder that Arleigh Burkes are old and busted.
>>946838
>Also, good luck sailing the equator with your doldrums.
hasnt stopped the Clipper Round the World Race from being a good race by going through the Panama Canal
https://www.clipperroundtheworld.com/race/route-map
>>946951
>>946955
Absolutely disgusting.
Stupid gray boxes polluting our seas.
>>946873
>what is nuclear propulsion
Where's the pollution?
>>946969
The Clipper Race is shit though
>>947398
its awesome if youre a regular person who wants the experience of be able to crew in a professional racing yacht, every other round the world race only hires professionals
>>947092
dunno
>>948263
32 knots for at least a year
>>948276
>32 knots for at least a year
(nuclear powered)
>>948276
It seems that the nuc plant is only good for 20 kn, then it fires up additional petroleum boilers for a battlefield sprint of 32 kn. It could not keep that up for long. Many warships have some sort of combined propulsion for economy OR performance.
>>946982
If they didn't, you sheltered richfags would all get kidnapped and held for ransom every time you took your toy boats out for a circle-jerk race, faggot.
>>946768
You're looking at boats that are optimized for unpowered circumnavigation record-breaking. They are literally good for nothing else at all.
If you tried to do anything useful with them, they would fail. So, yeah: If you want to drive a boat around Antarctica. And you don't want to spend any money on fuel. And you don't care how long it takes, so long as it doesn't take as long as the last guy who tried it. And you absolutely, motherfucking, will. not. do. any. useful. thing. on the way. Then by all means use a purpose-built sailboat.
But for actually getting shit done in the real world? Sail is a toy for toybabies.
>>948346
This, the fucking autism exhibited by OP vs motor power is right up there, even for an autistic board like /n/.
>>948318
That may be true for the Kirov class, but I believe the Long Beach was 100% nuclear and could do 30 knots day in and day out.
Motorized watercraft cargo: most things that allow society to function
Your sail boat's cargo: one "look i'm setting a record!" douche
>>949178
just a reminder that oil reserves are running out and will not meet global demand, we will see the return of clipper ships...soon
>>949183
I hope you don't actually believe this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-222
>>949191
yes, because oil reserves vs consumption is a known fact
>>949183
>clippers
>completely disregards the power source mentioned earlier
severe autism
>>949205
I meant the completely infeasible part about clipper ships
>>948354
And yet a power boat purpose built for circumnavigating as fast as possible, useless for anything else still got absolutely BTFO by sail power lol.
And sail can certainly work, there's no reason we couldn't have huge sail powered freight once more, though I wouldn't advocate for such since 2bh efficiency in internal combustion engines increases with size and the massive ones in tankers and such are some of the most efficient engines we've ever created.
Sail is still far more elegant though, ugly motorboats will never be able to compete on an aesthetic level.
Oh also for living on and cruising the world sail once again leaves powerboats BTFO, unless you're some rich toybabby
>>947090
Thank you. ctrl f'd right to your response.
>>949506
>aesthetic level
Wew lad
>>949699
Power boats are just ugly AF bruh, that's the way it is.
How could they ever compete with pic related?
>>949850
Some more sailboat sexiness.
>>949850
There are beautiful boats of all kinds, bro. No need to get all mad about it. I love my Leisure 23 to bits but will freely admit that it looks disabled.
>>949867
>>949867
You could probably take your leisure 23 across the pacific if you really wanted to, but either of those power boats? Nah.
>pic
75mph powered solely by wind
>>949889
Because that can be replicated anywhere, any time, right? The direction/force of the wind doesn't factor in, not does the sea state, right?
>>949901
Still fucking impressive feat of engineering bruh
>>949850
That ship must be a bitch to upright after a capsize.
Why are sail boats always leaning so much?? Seems like they'd engineer a way around this by now.
>>950978
It helps direct your energy, and you only have so much weight to counteract the force of the wind. It also can lower the surface area in contact of the water.
I'm just a beginner FJ sailor though.
>>950976
>That ship must be a bitch to upright after a capsize.
Those are J-class yachts that are a class of yacht that was used in the 1930s americas cup and are still raced today because they are such beautiful sailboats. They weigh 150 tons, most of that weight is ballast, there is no way they would ever capsize even in a hurricane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-class_yacht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8w6AL_VlAs
(watch hi-res/fullscreen)
>>950995
Beautiful to sail or simply plain beautiful?
>>951026
both, they handle very nimble for such a large and heavy yacht
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwRSSNaH9gM&t=1m57s
>>951032
Surprises me that the class dwindled down to three. Do you know about how large the original complement was?
Cheers btw.
>>951040
Fuck, must have skimmed that without reading, it's getting late. Bit inexcusable not seeing the big table down the bottom though.
>>951032
Man, that is a gorgeous ship. Everything about it is to the nines.
>>946878
Based IOW needles
Cigarette boat coming through brraaappp
>>947432
There are other, bigger ocean races you can find rides for and not pay out the ass for it and not sail with a bunch of asshats. I would much rather sail with people I know and trust than strangers who may or may not have significant offshore experience. Most people who do the clipper race only a couple of legs anyways
The latest class of American nuclear aircraft carriers can go at 35kt for a year easy. Stop being a sperg OP.
>>950978
>Seems like they'd engineer a way around this by now.
They have lol (well actually ancient polynesians I guess did). Catamarans and Trimarans, they heel significantly less. Racing ones will still try to fly all but one hull in order to decrease wetted surface (basically they're carrying a fuck ton of sail compared to a monohull), but for normal sailing and cruising on a large multihull they're pretty flat.
>>949850
There's more to seafaring than looking pretty, anon. Doing useful work, for example.
>>952543
Bring back working sail!
>>952575
I wonder how sailing would do on one of the two sports boards.
>>946838
What if an airplane did the same route that the boats do? It would be laughable.
>>946768
OP you failed hard not posting this sweet vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP985PjMGts
bitch is like flying on the water like wah//??
>>952705
those are ultra light racing catamarans with wingsails and spinakers. a heavier boat with a sail that can be luffed easier and that doesn't happen.
>>947458
>yo dawg, we heard you liked navigation bridges, so we put a navigation bridge on your navigation bridge, so you can navigate while you navigate
>>952817
They should have named it "very fast catamaran sailing at incredible hihg speed"
>>952907
goddamnit trimaran*
Bumping **BEST** sailing thread! xD xD xD
>>953278
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4loB_UGxw8
>>953328
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZyQVu_jUtU&spfreload=10
Schwalbe professional bike tyres
Boop
>>946873
Nimitz class freedom airports cruise at over 30 knots. And could do it indefinetly as long as they kept getting food resupplies monthly.
