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PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2023 12:35 pm    Post subject: USA 100m Speed Challenge Reply with quote

After an 3 year year absence due to Covid, it's back on again: the USA 100m speedsailing challenge. www.gps-speedsurfing.com/default.aspx?mnu=event&val=799 The search to find the fastest speedsailors and locations in the USA returns.

The USA may be a large country but there's very few locations where speeds over 40 knots have been recorded. There's also very few speedsailors who have gone 40 knots on waters in the USA.

For 2023 the competition is back, who's the fastest and can anyone go over 40 knots over 100m or maybe even 50! Any sailor from anywhere in the world is welcome to enter, only rule is GPS 100m speeds measured by doppler approved devices and the location has to be in the USA. All sessions to be uploaded to www.gps-speedsurfing.com

HISTORY
In 1988 speedsailing was one of the most popular forms of windsurfing competition. To grow the sport in the USA event organizers decided simplicity was the key and 100m courses were a practical alternative to the 500m ones used overseas.

The US Boardsailing association became involved and sanctioned the results over 100m. From a practical point of view there were more locations in the USA where 100m courses could be setup. Both the organizers and US Boardsailing were right, by 1991 there were over 500 sailors posting 100m speeds in the US Boardsailing sanctioned Ken Winner Jantzen Speed Series.

In 1993 the overall 100m USBA record was set at 44.45 knots at Lyle behind the Klickitat River sandbar; a record that stands to this day. In all over 1100 windsurfers participated and had 100m rankings from 1990 to 1995.

The fastest 100m GPS speed was recorded in 2009 on the Columbia River near the town of Chinook in Washington state.

USA 40 knot 100m locations
ARooBar, Columbia River, Chinook, WA, USA
Klickitat River Sandbar, Columbia River, Lyle, WA, USA
Hood River Sandbar, Columbia River, Hood River, OR, USA
Clatsop Spit, Columbia River, Clatsop, OR, USA
Pyramid Lake, NV, USA[/img]
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