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The current record is 46.52 knots (86.16 km/h or 53.53 mph).

The world record was established back in 1993 at Sandy Point, Australia

by Simon McKeon and his vessel Yellow Pages Endeavour, a trimaran.

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The highest sailboat speeds are by "non-displacement hull" sailboats, such as catamarans and trimarans. The world record speed attained, by official records, is 64 miles per hour for a trimaran.

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The world record for the fastest sailboat speed is 80.3 knots (93 miles per hour or 150 kilometers per hour), set by the sailboat Vestas SailRocket 2 in 2012.

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