Sailrocket 2 under goes more modifications



11:09 AM Wed 11 May 2011 GMT
'Vestas SailRocket 2' Vestas Sailrocket - copyright
The Vestas Sailrocket team are at Walvis Bay in Namibia, chasing the Outright World Sailing Speed Record. The new Vestas Sailrocket 2 was unveiled back in early March, then packed and shipped to Namibia. Paul Larsen and his team are in the set up and modification phase. Paul's latest news: Malcolm arrived from the UK yesterday. After a couple of days of maintenance and modifications we hit speed-spot to add a little orange to what was otherwise a grey and colourless scene. The wing went up effortlessly and we proceded to head up the course to try and go for ...


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by Paul Larsen





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