Björn Dunkerbeck is seeking to capture one record he doesn’t have: the World Sailing Speed Record. But he’s close. Dunkerbeck recently hit 44.35 knots at the Walvis Bay Speed week in Namibia, a millenium best. He remains confident that he can break the 12-year World Sailing Speed Record of 46.52 knots (86.16 km/h).
That record was established in Australian in 1993 by a catamaran called Yellow Pages Endeavour. No one has touched it since. Now Dunkerbeck is determined to hand it back to windsurfers, who held the previous records. Eager to see how he does.