Any one seen this on your travels?

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Dave_Snelson

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Being as how I work for the firm, I got to spend a day with some customers aboard this beauty. The record that we hold still stands, but is currently under the ever winning gaze of the Fabio Buzzi team - time will tell. For the moment though, the circumnavigation record sits with the Brits. Enjoy!

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Yes, a (business) partner was on the record trip with Capn Wishart. He was a farepaying crew person on the first leg, Gib to HK. I had a look over it, in London I think or maybe it was ocean vill. Very impressive, though I hear lots of bits fell off on the trip and had to be mended on the fly, using glue and fibreglass and duck tape, or anything stick!
 
Yes, and considering it was a Victorian design (stabilised mono-hull) and virtually unchanged from that design, except perhaps for the fact it is fibreglass, it did a brilliant job.

Its top speed of 24kts wasn't its best attribute, but its range without re-fuelling certainly was - 3,500 nm!!

It lopped 10 days (yep, days not hours!) off the previously held American record.

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Yes, moored in The Bag at Salcombe a month or so ago. It has to be the ugliest "boat" I've ever seen - totally spoiled the scenery - even worse than Birchwoods, Bayliners & Brooms. Strange these all begin with a B.
Congratulations on the record though.



PS Actually I quite like most Brooms.
 
So where do they moor it now? And do they still use it or do publuc trips in it or what?

After spending all that money on it, would be a shame to just leave it rotting doing nowt.
 
Do you really think it's that ugly?? Each to their own good sir, but your'e the first I've met that thinks so.

If you think it's that ugly on the outside, you wouldn't have wanted to go aboard. Apart from the chart room, the rest was cramped and whatever the opposite of a tardis is - then Adventurer was it!

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