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  1. Saildrone Completes Fastest Atlantic Crossing by Unmanned Vehicle

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  2. Fastest transatlantic crossing by solar power: PlanetSolar breaks

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  3. Richard Branson's boat Virgin Atlantic Challenger II sold after being

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  4. On This Day: SS United States smash British record for fastest Atlantic

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  5. USV Completes First Atlantic Crossing East to West

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  6. Fastest Atlantic Crossing by a USV

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  2. Sinking Of The RMS Listuania

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  4. 60 Mile Passage STRAIGHT ACROSS the IONIAN SEA

  5. Atlantic Crossing: Part One (Ep 26)

  6. Sailing 2 Hobie TriFoilers Side by Side

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  1. Transatlantic sailing record

    Transatlantic sailing record. Banque Populaire V, current record holder. Since the five-week voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492, quickly and safely crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas has always been an important issue. Today, the route has become a classic one among skippers.

  2. Comanche, Jim Clark's 100ft super maxi, smashes the transatlantic

    Comanche, the 100ft maxi racing yacht built to break records for Jim Clark and Kristy Hinze-Clark, has set an astonishingly fast new transatlantic record. In making the crossing in just 5 days, 14 ...

  3. The speed awards already broken by Comanche

    Sailing superyacht Comanche has set a new record for crossing the Atlantic Ocean after completing her latest Transat on July 28. The 30.45 metre carbon-fibre yacht sailed from New York's Ambrose Lighthouse to the UK's Lizard Point in 5 days, 14 hours, 21 minutes and 25 seconds.

  4. Blue Riband

    The Blue Riband (/ ˈ r ɪ b ə n d /) is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest average speed.The term was borrowed from horse racing and was not widely used until after 1910. [1] [2] The record is based on average speed rather than passage time because ships follow different routes. [3]

  5. TransAtlantic Speed Record: Will it Ever be Broken Again?

    The current record is 41.284 knots (76.5 km/ per hour) average over two days, 20 hours and 9 minutes. The Hales Trophy is a heavily gilded ornate trophy over one metre in height and is on display ...

  6. The SR-71's Record-Breaking Transatlantic Crossing

    The Concorde still holds the record for the fastest airliner crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, with a time of 2 hours, 52 minutes, 59 seconds, right from takeoff at London Heathrow International (LHR) to John F. Kennedy (JFK) in February of 1996. However, it still doesn't come close to what Sullivan and Widdifield were able to pull off that ...

  7. What's The Fastest Boat That Has Crossed the Atlantic Ocean?

    The Destriero holds the record as the fastest boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean. It completed the journey in 58 hours and 34 minutes. The Destriero set a record-breaking speed of 45.7 knots during its Atlantic crossing. The boat's incredible speed showcases advancements in marine technology. High-speed boat crossings have a significant impact on ...

  8. Tom Gentry's Quest to Set the Trans-Atlantic Speed Record

    Technically it is not awarded (and nor does a physical award exist) for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic but to the fastest average speed attained for the crossing by a passenger-carrying vessel. Starting in the late 1800s and into the early 1900s as steam replaced sail power and propellers -- first one, then two, and then several ...

  9. Speed Record Sailing Across the Atlantic 16+ Knots

    The Atlantic crossing series continues, breaking our sailing speed record, and racing fast towards the Caribbean. It's a wild ride, with gusting winds and fo...

  10. Historic ocean liner that holds speed record in crossing Atlantic ...

    The fastest ocean liner to ever cross the Atlantic — in both directions — has been languishing at a pier in south Philadelphia for more than twenty-five years. However, the days of the rusting ...

  11. | Atlantic Crossing 2024

    Sailing voyage includes 28 nights on board from which approximately 20 days/nights will take for crossing. Boat is a catamaran Lagoon 440 2010, fully renewed in 2024 and equipped for blue water cruising with full safety equipment, AIS, Starlink satellite internet, new watermaker, each cabin has an AC with heating and cooling, generator, solar ...

  12. The best route for an Atlantic crossing

    North is fastest. With well-established high pressure, a direct (that is, northerly) route is usually fastest, staying far enough away from the high to keep the wind, but minimising distance ...

  13. Sailing, monohull, fastest Atlantic crossing

    Sailing, monohull, fastest Atlantic crossing. The fastest ever crossing of the Atlantic by a monohull yacht between Ambrose Light Tower, New York, USA, and Lizard Point, Cornwall, UK, took 6 days 17 hr 52 min 39 sec and was made by Mari-Cha IV, between 2 and 9 October 2003. The yacht was captained by Robert Miller (UK) and sailed by a crew of 24.

  14. British Team Sets Sights On Transatlantic Powerboat Speed Record

    The current record for the crossing is two days, ten hours and 54 minutes, achieved by the Aga Khan's 220 foot long, jet engine powered boat Destriero in 1992. The jet-powered Destriero set a very ...

  15. BBC ON THIS DAY

    1986: Branson beats Atlantic speed record. Millionaire Richard Branson has smashed the world record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic. His 72-ft powerboat, the Virgin Atlantic Challenger, reached the Bishop Rock off the Isles of Scilly just after 1930BST. Mr Branson completed the voyage more than two hours faster than the previous record ...

  16. Guide to Atlantic crossing by sailboat or catamaran

    The classic route to cross the Atlantic by sailboat begins in Europe and ends in the Caribbean or more rarely somewhere else in Central America. A common example of a transatlantic crossing departing from the Canary Islands with a possible stop in Cape Verde and landing in the Antilles. The distance of the crossing from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean is about 2800-3000 nautical miles ...

  17. Crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat: the most famous crossings

    To cross the Atlantic by sailboat, there are basically two routes available. Route from East to West. Crossing Europe-America. This is the simplest route, as it is the usual route chosen by sailors to cross the Atlantic. It is easier to make this crossing, due to the distance among other things. This Europe-America crossing has a shorter ...

  18. Saildrone Completes Fastest Atlantic Crossing by Unmanned Vehicle

    On May 25, SD 1021 was re-launched from Bermuda to sail toward the UK. The mission: The fastest Atlantic Ocean crossing by an unmanned surface vehicle. In 2010, an underwater glider designed by students at Rutgers University was deployed from a research vessel off the coast of New Jersey transiting 2,900 nautical miles to Spain where it was ...

  19. How To Cross the Atlantic, Routes and Timelines

    25 MPH. Airplane. 2010. London - New York. 8 Hours. 478 Knots. 550 MPH. Table comparing time to complete an Atlantic crossing. Looking at this table we can clearly see that the time it takes to cross the Atlantic has decreased exponentially.

  20. Russian Company OOO "RAZREZ KIIZASSKII"

    The net assets of OOO "RAZREZ KIIZASSKII" as of 12/31/2023 totaled 55.9 billion RUB. The OOO "RAZREZ KIIZASSKII"'s operation in 2023 resulted in the profit of 16.7 billion RUB. This is by 9 % less than in 2022. The organization is not subject to special taxation regimes (operates under a common regime).

  21. Kiyzassky Coal Mine

    Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset. Background Kiyzassky coal mine (Кийзасский разрез) is a surface mine in the Kemerovo Oblast, central Southern Siberia, Russia.. The Kiyzassky coal mine is operated by SibAnthracite, which was acquired by A-Property in 2021.

  22. Kemerovo

    Kemerovo (Russian: Ке́мерово, IPA: [ˈkʲemʲɪrəvə]) is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin.Population: 557,119 (2021 Census); [12] 532,981 (2010 Census); [5] 484,754 (2002 Census); [13] 520,263 (1989 Soviet census).

  23. Kemerovo Oblast

    Flag Coat of arms. Kemerovo Oblast-Kuzbass (Russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть — Кузба́сс, romanized: Kemerovskaya oblast — Kuzbass, pronounced [ˈkʲemʲɪrəfskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ kuzˈbɑs]), also known by its short names as Kemerovo Oblast (Russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть) and Kuzbass (Кузба́сс) [1] after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a ...