{"id":9725,"date":"2009-04-19T20:37:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9725"},"modified":"2009-04-19T20:37:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:37:43","slug":"powerboat-will-earthrace-become-a-whale-saver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9725","title":{"rendered":"Powerboat &#8211; Will Earthrace become a Whale-saver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The next challenge for the bio-diesel fuelled 78 foot trimaran wave piercer Earthrace could be helping to save whales in Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>In June, 2008, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEarthrace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, with owner\/skipper Pete Bethune and a volunteer crew circled the globe in 60 days, 23 hours and 49 minutes, slashing the previous record for a powerboat by an astonishing two weeks! During the long ocean legs Earthrace with a six tonne biofuel load powered up to 2,000 miles at 20 knots.<\/p>\n<p>Bethune now has the New Zealand designed and built boat on the market for $1.5 million and its currently on a final tour of New Zealand after last year world record.<\/p>\n<p>Powered by two 540-horsepower Cummins engines have a short range cruising speed of 30 knots and a top speed of 40 knots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Earthrace could have a new future as a secret strike weapon against Japanese whalers in the Southern Oceans if the Kiwi skipper has his way&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerboat-world.com\/index.cfm?nid=55921\" target=\"_blank\">Details and Picture\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next challenge for the bio-diesel fuelled 78 foot trimaran wave piercer Earthrace could be helping to save whales in Antarctica. In June, 2008, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEarthrace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, with owner\/skipper Pete Bethune and a volunteer crew circled the globe in 60 days, 23 hours and 49 minutes, slashing the previous record for a powerboat by an astonishing two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-powerboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9727,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions\/9727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}