Wish they'd include another angle. Broad, from a bit of a distance.
Yeah, he looked well in control. Made it look easy. What sort of helmet is that?
the write up on the you tube clip:
Today Antoine Albeau broke the windsurf world speed record : 50.59 knots in Luderitz, Namibia. Anders Bringdal and Antoine Albeau exceeded 50 knots with respectively 50.46 and 50.59 knots on 500 m in windsurfing.
Images d'un run précédent le record.
Well done
During this record run his peak speed was 53knts, he also beat the wolrd tandem record with cédric Bordes 38.12 knts.
On a later run he hit the side of the canal at full speed, he says "I'm not sure everyone here could survived that crash..."
Broke his fin, mast and split open the sail along the mast on his 5.4.
He's quite confident he's going to break the 52 knts record, his only concern being it's becoming dangerous....
Just for interests sake ...
The video isn't of his fastest run. He used a red board for the record run. Not sure what the make was though?
Out of interest I see Anders has ditched his Gasoil sails for the Evo's. That's going to put a ding in Gasoil sales
Meanwhile just just the coast it looks like Sail Rocket are close to raising the bar www.sailrocket.com/blogs