My Herald on Sunday column about the Earthrace team abandoning their bid to circumnavigate the globe in their bio-diesel powered boat. The boat cracked after receiving a battering in the Mediterranean but it looks like the team may make a fresh attempt next year. Here’s hoping it’s smoother sailing second time around …
Tomorrow’s world
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All eyes are on the stop-start Louis Vuitton sailing action in Valencia at the moment, but the epic Earthrace
The Kiwi effort to get around the world in 75 days or less looked shaky as the boat, which is powered by bio-diesel, was caught up in a fatal collision with a fishing boat off Guatemala, then [...]
After further mechanical problems, the Earthrace boat seems to be on its way from San Diego, striking out across the Pacific. The next destination for the bio-diesel powered boat is Hawaii. The skilled camera man, Lance Wordsworth, who is providing land-based photography for a Discovery documentary on the race, tells me the crew have crammed [...]