B100 biodiesel powered Earthrace powerboat sets world circumnavigation record

The B100 biodiesel-powered powerboat, Earthrace, crushed the global circumnavigation record by more than 13 days, traveling the 24,000 nautical mile journey in 60 days, 23 hours and 49 minutes, crossing the finishing line in Sagunto. An international team of volunteers from New Zealand, UK, Sweden, Guyana and Hungary, powered the  24m tri-hull wavepiercer past the 1998 record set by Cable and Wireless Adventurer.  The crew battled a massive backlog of ships in the Panama Canal, monsson conditions near India, a lost propeller and driveshaft at sea, and missed biodiesel deliveries in Asia.

The biodiesel-powered trimaran Earthrace resumed its record circumnavigation attempt in Puerto Rico after losing a day when a biodiesel shipment was not delivered. The boat remains approximately one day ahead of the previous circumnavigation record of 74 days set in 1998. The boat now heads for the Panama Canal.

Earthrace’s crew are aiming to circumnavigate the globe in 65 days. The $3 million trimaran failed on an earlier attempt on the record, and has spent the past year on a fundraising and publicity tour.

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