Earthrace 1000 miles from new World Record
Posted on 26/06/2008
After 59 days New Zealander Pete Bethune and his crew aboard the 78 foot (24 metre) bio-diesel fuelled trimaran Earthrace are just 1,000 nautical miles from the finish line in Sagunto, Spain.
The 1998 world record set by Cable & Wireless is just shy of 75 days, so if all goes well for the next few days Earthrace could set a new record of 61 or 62 days, depending on their actual arrival time off the Vulcan shipyard they left on April 27th 2008.
