Earth Race

Check this out at the Yahoo Boatdesign Group.... Pacific Zulu1

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/boatdesign/photos/browse/cc09

 

what is the max beam of center hull ??

anyone have any amateur bluprintsor any sketches of the bottom. is it flat or v or round ..

 

I doubt after how much was spent on that boat that the blueprints would be freely available.
Complex hull shapes such as a wave-piercing tri cannot be lumped into simple categories such as 'flat', 'v', 'round'. The sections near the bow of a boat like this, for instance, tend to be very thin and sharp; midships, they are typically fuller, somewhere between a rounded rectangle and a cylinder.... these are very carefully refined special-purpose hulls, and to get useful information on how they are shaped requires the determination and the resources to do a lot of research.

 

Earthrace Tries Again for World Record
http://www.boattest.com/Resources/view_news.aspx?NewsID=912

 

So how long might Orange 2 or Grouprama 3 take to do this 'around the centre of the globe' routing ?

 

Earthrace's record

"The space age, wave piercing trimaran Earthrace today took bio-fuel into history as the 78 foot, (24 metre) boat crossed the 'Round the World' finish line in Sagunto, Spain. In just 60 days Earthrace has powered almost 24,000 nautical miles around the world.

The previous record for a powerboat to circumnavigate the globe was 74 days 20 hours 58 minutes 30 seconds, set by the UK boat ‘Cable & Wireless Adventurer’ in 1998."

See more at: http://www.powerboat-world.com/index.cfm?nid=45820

 

60 day's... time fly's and thats two weeks faster than cable and wireless
dont mind doing that in a bit more time like say tree four five or so months

 

Sounds like a lot of up-set school boys because someone has a bigger and better one.Is this another drivel thread.

 

I saw a photo of her out of the water below the water line she is almost v-hulled below the bow but as you go astern she forms a round hull with a flat bottom.
Forward of the windsheild, if you were to flip the ship over it would be similar to the bottom of the hull

She was specifically designed to be as efficient as possible while running on pure biofuel

 

I went down to see it when it was here in Vancouver, amazing boat... Sad what happened to it... Damn eco-terrorist hippies...

http://dev.sandbox.green.autoblog.c...ace-biodiesel-boat-nearly-sunk-by-japanese-w/