Skipper Pete Bethune and crew navigated the 80-foot-long, tri-hull wave-piercer, Earthrace, around the world in a record-breaking 60 days, 23 hours and 49 minutes.The boat, which can submarine under waves, was Bethune’s brainchild. The New Zealander developed the idea while working as an oil exploration engineer. “Towards the end of my time there I became increasingly uneasy about our dependence on what is a very finite resource,” he says. Bethune began researching renewable fuels and became a supporter of biodiesel and ethanol.
Earthrace was a five-year project. According to Bethune, it took about a year to decide how to put the project together, another year to attempt to raise funds to get started and a year to build the boat. Earthrace has been in the water for two years now. A 2007 attempt to beat the world record failed.
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