Speed comes naturally to some. For the current world sailing speed record holder, Paul Larsen, it was all he thought about for years as he and his small team developed a radical machine to set a new outright sailing speed record.
Despite some major setbacks – including a serious hospitalisation and a suite of maxed out credit cards – in 2012 Team Larsen left the bar at a staggering height, with the record of 65.45 knots over 500m.
