JJEM Adventures

Meeting Earthrace

Earthrace is a 24m (78ft) tri-hull wavepiercer that has been designed and built specifically to get the record for a powerboat to circumnavigate the globe. It uses biodiesel fuel.
While we were at Majuro getting ready for our trip to Kiribati, we were very excited to hear Earthrace would be stopping at Majuro for fuel in the next couple of days. On May 27, 2008, a typical Majuro rainy day, Earthrace showed up around noon. Her extremely unique appearance made a whopping impression for those of us who had never seen a picture of her before. Almost all the sailboats at Majuro sent their dinghies to “help” her dock at the fuel wharf, our dinghy Osprey was one of them. After they docked, we all had a chance to get on board to take a look and helped with loading water and food. She is a very cool racing boat, goes 22 knots all day on average. It took her only 5 days to travel from Hawaii to Majuro (it took us 19 days to sail the same distance).
We learned later, Earthrace indeed broke the world record circumnavigaton of the globe by 14 days (it took her 60 days 23 hours 49 min)! She is currently on market for sale at $1.5 million.