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yipster



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Registered: October 2002
Location: netherlands
Posts: 3,264
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SPECIFICATION

Length overall - 35 m

Beam overall - 14 m

Class - DNV Yacht R0

Main Engines - Cummins

Power - 2 x 261 kW

Max Speed - 24 knots

Cruising Speed - 22 knots

Fuel - 16000 litres

Range - 3500 nm

Accommodation - 12 to 16

Construction - Glass sandwich

Builder - Vosper Thorneycroft

Cable & Wireless Adventurer successfully completed a record breaking circum-navigation in 1998. Departing from Gibraltar on 19th April 1998 the vessel returned on the 3rd July having covered the 24500 nautical miles in 74 days 20 hours, spending some 62 days at sea. The average speed achieved was 16.5 knots and the average fuel consumption about 1 mpg (4.5 litres/nm).
· Date: November-24-2002 · Views: 32977
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Keywords: Adventurer cable & wireless Nigel Irens Design

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cristofa
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Registered: October 2004
Location: Cornwall, UK
Posts: 81
November-5-2005 5:35pm Rating: 8 

You don't mention that this is also a Nigel Irens design. So, with Ellen MacArthur's record solo circumnavigation in B&Q, his boats have power and sail round the world records - that's not a bad achievement!

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