Career
BVI11. When he was 7, he tried windsurfing for the first time and at the age of 15, he came 13th at the United States Open at Corpus Christi, Texas. His career choice had been made. Finian Maynard is 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) tall and weighs 117 kg (258 lb).
On 13 November 2004 he established a new speed world record for sailing vessels by reaching 46.82 knots in the French Trench near Saintes Maries de la Mer, surpassing the speed set in 1993 at Sandy Point Australia by Simon McKeon and the boat Yellow Pages.
He improved his record a half year later, reaching 48.70 knots. Both records were acknowledged and ratified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.
