Pascal Maka

{{short description|French windsurfer}}

Pascal Maka is a French windsurfer,{{cite news|url=http://www.sailing.org/news/4550.php|title=High Winds Force Race Committee To Abandon Racing Leaving Sailors On The Ground and Kiters In The Air|publisher=ISAF |date=4 July 2002}} who broke the outright speed sailing record in 1986, and again in 1990.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sailspeedrecords.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=18|title=World Sailing Speed Record Council|website=www.sailspeedrecords.com}}

Maka broke the outright speed sailing record in 1986, at Sotavento, Fuerteventura, with a speed of 38.86 knots, using a Jimmy Lewis board and a Gaastra sail.[http://ifca.internationalwindsurfing.com/page0165v01.htm History of Speed sailing] IFCA This was the first time a windsurfer had broken the outright speed sailing record, which had previously been held by multihulls.{{cite journal|title=Popular Science|journal=The Popular Science Monthly|date=October 2005|pages=67|volume=267|issue=4|issn=0161-7370|publisher=Bonnier Corporation}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.sport.fr/glisse/plv/43240.shtm|title = Sport en direct sur Sport.fr|date = 29 July 2020}}

His record was surpassed in 1988 by British windsurfer Erik Beale, who became the first sailor to break 40 knots Saintes Maries de la Mer Speed Canal with a speed of 40.48 knots. {{Cite web|url=https://www.sailspeedrecords.com/500-metre|title=500 Metre|website=www.sailspeedrecords.com}} This record lasted until 1990, when Maka again broke the record, this time also at Saintes Maries, with a speed of 43.06 knots.{{cite news|title=Sailing's Version Of a 4-Minute Mile|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/22/sports/yachting-sailing-s-version-of-a-4-minute-mile.html|first=Barbara|last=Lloyd|date=July 22, 1990}}