This is the Earthrace, built four years ago. Two years ago it set a record, circumnavigating the globe in two months, a full two weeks faster than the previous record. Now it’s going to be used by Paul Watson’s Sea Shepard Conservation Society to sneak up on, and presumably scare the shit out of whalers.
Two 540 HP motors burning veggie oil propel the Earthrace up to 45 knots. The 78 foot knife shaped hull is designed to go under big waves rather than bounce around on top. Here it is in it’s former life:
Life has more pics of the new caped crusader paint job: Link
