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    Posted: 19 Mar 07 at 12:00pm
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Does'nt sound like good news to me.
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Originally posted by Contender443

This looks like a modernised version of the Cable and Wireless Trimaran tha was trying to do something (and succeeded) very similar.

I had forgotten about the C&W boat (she set the power boat circumnavigation record in 1998)- seem to remember it coming up for sale a while ago
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This looks like a modernised version of the Cable and Wireless Trimaran tha was trying to do something (and succeeded) very similar.

 
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Anybody seen this? It looks really good, but it's gone wrong already!

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/earthrace-p1.php

Seen that the carbon propellors are breaking down already so they are "cruising" to panama!
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