From the Sailing Team’s Logbook:

There’s been an impressive response to Carbon Challenge on our first day after launching the site.  Thanks for all the mails of support.

We have confirmation that we have an exclusive option to buy the boat that finished second in the last Volvo Ocean Race – famously known as Pirates of the Caribbean. 

It’s a cool idea for Carbon Challenge to get on board a pre-campaigned boat.  On day 1, we will have already saved an incredible amount of energy compared to a team that builds a new boat  Plus, in theory at least, we don’t have to sacrifice a lot of performance versus the other teams as my research indicates that we can be reasonably competitive,  investing our personal energy in making the boat fast.  More on that later…

In the short term we need to inspect the boat and determine a timetable for a re-fit with design engineers and boatbuilders,  we will then look at a new complete sail inventory, I have an outlet to recycle the old ones! Then when we push the button we can get the sailing team on the water early so by race time they will be up for the challenge.

In the meantime we put some pictures up of her on the site for visitors to enjoy.

Tom Weaver, Carbon Challenge Campaign Director

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