by Alessio Lidozzi

A Record-Breaking Super Yacht Has Been Built

BACKGROUND

In the world of yachting and competitive sailing, speed reigns supreme with handling and agility

coming in at a close second. As international racing teams continue to battle for the top yachting prizes around the world, they are also improving the ships

they sail by researching newer, stronger, more lightweight materials, as well as new designs that

can give them that extra needed edge to take home the gold.

Tech Newcomer

Now, as the competition heats up, a new ship has just been built by tech billionaire Jim Clark that is

promising to not only revolutionize the sailing world, but also break a number of speed records while doing

so.

Jim Clark

Jim Clark is a high school drop-out who’s worth over $1.4 billion thanks to co-founding Netscape and

investing wisely in Apple, Twitter, and Facebook. He has used a large chunk of his fortune to invest in a new

yacht, named the Comanche, that uses the latest sail and hull technologies to blow the competition out of the

water with an expected top speed of around 40mph.

The Comanche

The Comanche is being built to set records—of that there is no doubt—and Clark has been very forthcoming about his hopes for his new toy. It is named after Quanah Parker, the last Comanche chief to surrender to the United States and who did so only 60 miles away from where Clark was born

and grew up in Texas; an area where “the plains are very flat like the ocean.” Clark is looking to hold on to the Comanche

for two years before selling it off.

Expectations

In those two years he has set his expectations high and is looking to win events such as the Transatlantic, the Transpac, the Fastnet, and the Middle Sea races while

breaking speed records along the way. With the Comanche’s first race looking to be the famed Sydney-Hobart yacht race, it will be jumping straight into the deep-end of yachting races and it’s the perfect test to

see if the Comanche will live up to Jim Clark’s expectations.

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