Dennis Klaaijsen did a massive 742 km yesterday on the grevelingenmeer! The official distance will be a bit less but his own world record is certainly broken!

https://www.facebook.com/Ned192?ref=ts&fref=ts

This is the news report of last year: (it's in dutch but you can get an impression!)

Incredible effort - that's the equivalent of doing 20knot hours for 20 hours straight.
No doubt Kato will be planning his next assault.

Well done . That's going to stand for a while.

Amazing effort, that's going to be hard to beat! I guess one day someone will do 24 hrs?

Wow

I eagerly await the claim for the official record!

Thats unbelievable!100kms impresses the hell out of me!

I'll leave that one for you Kato

Fantastic effort!!

That's like sailing from Adelaide to Melbourne. Inconceivable.

What a legend.

Truly mind boggling!

Crazy man.

That's some huge distance
Got to respect insanity

Machine !

Phenomenal!

Top job

Impressive. Like his trailer.

Incredible achievement.
If we could only see the track on KA72 will be fantastic and replay on Google map ( speed up of course )




All this happen somewhere here. Look like they had nice flat water. I wonder how deep it was...

Next. Two of three GPSs stalled . I can't imagine sadness if all three could go broke and such effort wasted.

We give you Kato all our GPSs for the trip just in case !

Amazing effort, love how flat the water is there.

mind boggling.
My PB is about one tenth of that.

I wonder how many hours of daylight there were?

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Windxtasy said..
mind boggling.
My PB is about one tenth of that.

I wonder how many hours of daylight there were?

Anita,
Netherlands is currently getting about a day length of 14h 42m 34s with I suspect a pretty decent twilight both sides of dusk and dawn. It is quite incredible to think someone can sail that distance in a 24 hour window.

Brian, we are over in Lake Garda at the moment and it is light for about 16 hours a day, seem some guys going out for a sail last night at 8.15 pm.

How long was he sailing for to get such an epic distance?

It's a bit early to judge a new distance record yet. Arnald De rosnay departed in the 80s and still hasn't gotten back so I think the record should be eternally his.

He started around 19h45 in the evening and sailed all night long if I remember correctly. He even sailed more then 24 hrs to be sure.

You can see the movie here:


You can see my track from yesterday. This is +- 70 km, imagine 10x this! It is only flat at the ends, inbetween is some nasty chop.
And he probably sailed a bit longer before he gybed so even more chop! The water is loaded with sticks and little dams (next to them it's comfortable sailing).You can't stand anywhere! You have to walk a bit and after that it's 3-4 meters deep!

boardseekermag.com/features/24-hour-man/

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Unfortunately, the distance can't be ratified as an official World Record. Only one GPS recorded the entire time and even then, from the data, it is impossible to confirm the distance accurately.

There is little doubt it was a huge distance and a fantastic achievement, but exactly how far is impossible to say with any confidence.

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sailquik said..

watermonster said..
boardseekermag.com/features/24-hour-man/

Unfortunately, the distance can't be ratified as an official World Record. Only one GPS recorded the entire time and even then, from the data, it is impossible to confirm the distance accurately.

There is little doubt it was a huge distance and a fantastic achievement, but exactly how far is impossible to say with any confidence.

Argh I reckon that's got to hurt as much as sailing for 24hours. His hands definitely looked like he sailed 700kms.