The other day the phone rang in the office and it was Shelley Jory-Leigh (Shelley is one of the United Kingdom’s leading powerboat racers and the top female in the world) asking us if we like to help out with some tanks for the new British Global Circumnavigation boat she will be a team member of.
The boat, named ‘Good Heart’, is a completely new design based on experience and modern technology. She is 80 feet of pure technology, designed and constructed in the UK from aluminium, and encompassing an exceptionally efficient ultra-slim wave-piercing hull. She will be able to submarine beneath waves under the constant propulsion of her twin engines.
The Global Circumnavigation Challenge is a bid by British ocean adventurer Alan Priddy to design and build the fastest and most efficient wave-piercing powerboat to circumnavigate the globe for the much coveted UIM world record, which is currently held by the New Zealander Pete Bethune at 60 days 23 hours 49 minutes. The Global Circumnavigation Challenge team intend to cover the 24,000 miles at sea in under 50 days.
The tanks we will be supplying are for water and waste. We do not have any more information than that at the moment as the boat is in it’s early stages of build. As soon as we have made them we will put some pictures of them here.
For more information on the Team and the Boat please click here to visit the website. The story can also be followed on Facebook.
We wish Alan and his team the “Best of British Luck” in their attempt and look forward to posting the outcome on the blog soon.
Global Circumnavigation Record Newsletter October 2011
Global Circumnavigation Record Newsletter November 2011






