Here’s A Video Showing You Why The AC72 Is The Boat To Buy If You’re A Total Baller

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AC72s are pretty sweet, but they’re designed to get around a course as quickly as possible, more like an F1 car than a drag racer. This next boat ‘HydroptÃ¨re’ is built for straight-line speed. The French-designed tri-maran managed to hit the magic 50 knots barrier, around 55mph, in 2009. It was the first boat to do so over a measured nautical mile (1.15 normal miles) and looks like something out of a bond film, riding up on it’s huge foils.

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What’s cool about the HydroptÃ¨re is that you could actually sail around on it. I mean, you’re actually in control at least. The Aussies last year decided to completely change the game by going back to the drawing board and create a RIDICULOUS looking boat, specifically for the record, called the Sail Rocket. Every single video of this thing I’ve seen so far looks sketchy as fuck, but they managed to beat Hydroptere’s record by 7mph, even reaching 70 at one point.

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No matter how extremely extreme that was, it looks SERIOUSLY sketchy and it was only a matter of time before I found a ‘crash’ video. This is pretty catastrophic, yet the guy laughs about it later, suggesting his run was about to ‘tear speed sailing a new arsehole’. All credit to the guy though as he then picked himself up, dusted off the Sail Rocket and then did exactly that.

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