PD World Altitude Record
This is about sailing your PD, at the highest altitude.

Altitude Record Rules:
1 - Boat must be setup in class legal configuration, can also use paddle, pedal, or other human powered means.
2 - Must submit means by which you determined the altitude of the area you sailed at.
3 - Boat must be sailed on the water, no fair setting the record on a trailer, on the highway, or airplane etc.
4 - You MAY create your own patch of water, the boat only has to float free in the water, with you in it.
This record shall be reset at the end of each year.
So where is the highest lake in the world? It is Licancabur, Chile

2008 Record
8-9-08 record: 8597 feet above sea level by Don Swearingen #49 - sailed at 11 Mile Reservoir in Colorado
6-25-08 record: 7000 feet above sea level by Ken Randall #210 - sailed at Huntington Lake
3-28-08 record: 5550 feet above sea level by Kendall York #207 - sailed at Cherry Creek State Park
3-25-08 record: 5430 feet above sea level by Kendall York #207 - sailed at Chatfield Reservoir

2007 Record
8-13-07 record: 5182 feet above sea level by Andrew Linn [article]

2005 Record
9-23-05 record: 3602 feet above sea level by Bruce Anderson [article]








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