Kite-Powered Sailboat Aiming to Be the World's Fastest

This kite powered sailboat is out to smash the world sailing speed record. We talked to SP80, the company behind the boat, to find out what it's like to sail this thing and design a vessel for such high speeds. The record that the SP80 team is aiming at has three rules set by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.The record holder must reach the highest average speed over 500 m, have at least one person on board, and use only the wind as their source of energy. With those rules in mind, the SP8 team came u ...