Earthrace: The Powerboat Race Around the World | FULL LENGTH | MagellanTV

this is not a walk in the park when you're in the middle of the ocean and the storms are raging the waves are big and it's just you against the clock and in the words of Napoleon - his generals you can ask for anything except time and when the clock is ticking time time time is your enemy time time it ticks away I think land is about 100 kilometers that way we just stop - ow - have some breakfast and just a little bit of servicing on the engines but intimidating being this far off sure this is a Buddhist not sure I've ever been earth race founder and skipper Pete Bethune six months prior to his world circumnavigation attempt and on only his first offshore which we didn't have a lot of experience with sailing especially going long distances offshore they looked at the record of 75 days and just thought they seemed to be on a fad in that record seventy-five days seemed like a long time to circumnavigate the globe people people he said I'm gonna sit out and break this record I can do it this record has need to be broken and not just broken but smashed and having come out and said that so many times we had to follow through and do that and in many way to earth race when he set out he cradled a monster I'm Stephen John Scheidler and in actually 1997 dag Pike and I set up the rules for around the world powerboat race there's actually been hundreds and hundreds that have raced around the world in sailboats but no one had really raced or tried to set a record around the world in a powerboat and this is not easy those easy people who have done in a long long time ago and they haven't is really only one boat only one boat really made it around the world a big very extensive boat with full sponsorship and they did it their way and were able to do it but it wasn't easy in 1998 full boat set out to attempt the world record circumnavigation the custom-built boat Cable and Wireless with accommodation for 14 crew was the only boat to finish completing its circumnavigation in 74 days and 23 hours it would be a very different experience for the three earth race crew who would be spending the entire journey in a 16 square meter living area at 24,000 nautical miles the perverting circumnavigation is the world's longest race we need to do a consent form that is a procedure we don't you just put that hand up on your chest so this is the bit that we're after fatty that there so you just turn your right around put that hand up I've got the same area here okay it's funny it's sort of seen we think like a silver joke up to me and Auckland sailor has undergone liposuction to prove his own body fat can be used to help power a trimaran around the world peter Bethune's body fat will be converted into biofuel like I said what we're hoping to do from this is make somebody's ally under the out of the fact that they get it out of me and it's one of those stories that should go around the globe we think a little bit of a stunt I guess but it does highlight for people effect that you can use lots of different sources to make biodiesel from I believe the overall theme behind the project was the promotion of renewable energy and specifically biodiesel and the boat that we run on 100% pure biodiesel for the race attempt well now my kitchens been taken over by Petey's and the inferring human effect to make biodiesel and making a lovely recently which I hope you will clean up yes good work and when I come home I expect that we'll be all clean and tidy and out of my kitchen throughout its world tour and record attempt the earth race boat would run on biodiesel sourced from a variety of materials from rapeseed to fish oil in order to highlight the potential and versatility of renewable fuels P has always tended to go full on nothing sort of simple I expected this to be over and don't want three months hoppin a boat around the world but it's been three years and we've already gone over what he first estimated that would cost by quite a considerable amount and I don't think I could go over you need more but okay so yeah now it's a bit stressful we've got um the bills piling up and how much is this boat costing at some yeah I know it's a dream and that's going to be great when it's done but it's just yeah it's hard to refer them the amount of money that's going into it earth race was designed purely to break the existing around the world record it's it's a totally unique custom design specifically for that purpose we would give them an open brief we pretty much took it to the extreme for hundreds of thousands of years it's been the view of people that go to sea is you want to stay above the water you know piercing or going under the water for periods of time there's something that's been avoided at all costs the wave piercing nature of the craft is something that's very unusual our there's very few wave piercing or full wave Pearson crafts in the world we've discovered through our research and development that actually piercing through the waves it allows the vessel to maintain high speeds and rough conditions where other vessels would have to slow down construction of the craft started in our opinion way before it should have that was started before all of the design information and being completed it was started before a costing could be completed because it's a custom design essentially all of the molds and tooling to generate the shape were one-off everything has done for the first time the first time we saw with race in the water it was absolutely outstanding amazing to see you got your bottle we got to each other ladylike on the bear normally after both launched you spend a lot of time commissioning see trialing developing an understanding of the boat so you can heart enhance it improve it and get the best out of it in this situation the boat was launched and off it went on around the New Zealand try a visit to her and then off overseas it was just wasn't sufficient opportunity to to really learn anything about it off gone away on on the the joys but I guess of port tours and having fun with the lads rather than focusing on getting a very clear understanding of the boat and how to get it right what as Figgis was going home the circumnavigation rules state that the skipper and navigator must remain the same and completely entire voyage onboard with Pete as skipper Ryan Herron the onboard camera man would be registered as the navigator for the world record attempt after two years of trying to get the boat in the water suddenly we found ourselves having to navigate around New Zealand between Pete Tom and myself we had very very little boating experience but finding good nautical crew that were willing to work in the conditions of the earth race and work for free proved difficult do I have a chat already oh yeah one of the most important aspects of the engineer promotional tool was given the press-on size for each port that we visited we've got good coverage and newspaper TV and radio people will see that and come down and visit the boat the people would give a donation to come on board so we need the people to come down so we raise money not only the funding is along to her but also to pay off some debts that Peaks the load from the build and also to finish off the interior of the boat there was no girly whatsoever and he was very space it was a fatigue offshore [Music] it's the last day of our New Zealand promotional tour today been a long haul been about seven weeks I'm on the road and on the boat it's better than it's been pretty tiring it's you know it's just been go-go-go the whole time even on our days off we've got so much so many things to catch up on that you just kind of don't get any time off a race right now it's it's a privilege to work on this crew spirit is god crew spirit is real but yeah I'm feeling feeling quite quite one of my feeling yeah yeah I'm not sure on on tummy's um he sees he's high-maintenance at times and he's struggling pointing to the net but it's not like we've sort of got the money to go paying a meeting and I so I'm you know I'm not I'm not sure what's gonna develop they're quite most things on earth race it tends to evolved so I will see what happens with the boats interior still incomplete the earth race begins at ten thousand kilometer Pacific crossing with three new crew members on board and an old face missing an intense nine months of touring awaits the new team before their March 10th race start Peet's an extremely focused guy once he's got us more in seat on something he goes for it and really nothing else matters other than achieving that goal and yeah consequently people get left by the wayside Pete did renege on his promise by deciding that he wasn't going to put me on the boat crew at all which only left me the option of paying my own way which given the fact that I've worked for fifteen months or 16 months or something for no pay where where did he imagine I would find the two grand or whatever to pay for the pay for the ticket to get over [Music] Peters are one-of-a-kind guy that does what's best to pate always there we go I'm sure the last thing he was thinking was that he was good he was about to renege on you know a long-standing deal he just did what he needed to do for Pete to get his boat happening it took us a month to get the boat across the Pacific and when we arrived we had only four hours rest before beginning our first promotions in North America two of the guys that came across on the earth race or helped us get the boat across the Pacific weren't interested in staying on the boat so we were down to three boat crew for the North American tour it's a boat that's been built to attempt the round-the-world speed okay tell me again what is biodiesel a renewable fuel that's made normally from vegetables but you can make a whole range of things okay tell me again what is biodiesel without sufficient monetary resources or crude the team race from port to port down the west coast of the United States seeking much-needed sponsorship dollars and media attention for the projectors whilst continuing to run promotions for renewable fuels that's just a sign of just coming into San Francisco crank it down this what you so we we had on on media and stuff oh man we had a press conference scheduled for 10:00 a.m. today and of course nobody showed up except for the newsletter guy yeah hi um if the [ __ ] was not running anything is it with with my wall just gonna have nice guys up and see if we can't get a story rollin movie yeah absolutely if you show up there with you Kiwi axe and and put on your charm they I don't think they can deny you no it's not it's real assistant have a brief audience with you it would be so milk do me a huge favor and you would allow same things out Robert struggling with us or over thought would be a shoo-in for a story at the Chronicle here but don't want to meet us alright well thank you all right now everyone's on deadline working right now so it is a lot harder than I thought I thought I'd get the boat over to the states and it all fall into place we've got no money for insurance at the moment the boats aren't insured just hard hard yeah Curran here Sharon's got no money she can't pay the electricity and phone we've mortgaged the house right up to as much as we can and we've sold the Ferrari block which was about 150,000 which was like I said our superannuation Pete shares in the company which we were sold not mean to be on the bench he who wants possums don't play with lychee I only work 30 hours a week so it doesn't go very far unfortunately when you've got two children and a house with a mortgage and many things Pete's under enormous pressure at the moment some of the stress that Pete might be feeling is affecting his decision-making it's one thing that's become clearer to us as the tour's going on set the who throws open days I'm not gonna raising that money to a fan that will wrinkle the team so I'm gonna hit away from the pillar for a week or so and just try and generate some significant sponsorship without a large corporate backer Pete and Sharon have invested over a million u.s. dollars into earth race all of their personal funds and with weekly running costs of $15,000 the project is on a financial knife edge one of the weird things about the project is just his no personal space you're always around the current we've had about 40,000 people essentially throughout the dream in the past couple of months [Music] we've put on the Better Bodies little logo on the side of the boat these wonderful these wonderful people are sponsoring our fuel for the North American tour on the race it's very important relationship for us with our beater biodiesel very beneficial I mean it's it's crucial to us get this this fuel sponsor tied up it's all gone horribly wrong it's a good way to end the West Coast to on a very positive note having the fuel thought was a massive expense taken care of it's worth about turning 50 grand to us it's a funny time it's a funny day actually because after this is over the boat's gonna heat down to a Coppola and Mexico and onwards to the Panama Canal we've had three months touring here in the US we still haven't managed to find another boat crew member so I've got two temporary crew onboard to help the guys get the boat down to Panama and through the canal [Music] we've got the pilot just to be able to jump on our vessel but he's a little bit worried I think normally they're hoping on great big freighters and stuff [Music] coming into the first lock on the western side of the Panamax now yeah oh just keeping everything tidy so we don't go tripping and pull into their locks this is nerve-racking as hell they got these wicked currency coming out just pulling in behind I've got this boat Santiago in front of us it's a Penta Max and it's got two foot clearance either side just a really tight fit putting intense waters rushing everywhere I can see what they mean when it's Sergey I want to be in there I can say this in all candor that this boat with hot weather conditions and high humidity is the most uncomfortable boat I've ever been on they we literally have people sitting and the pilot and co-pilot seat drenched literally dripping with sweat no cold drinks and no ventilation it's a problem it needs to be fixed [Music] the sea was flat so we saw the boat coming from miles off but it wasn't until it started getting closer that we realized that was heading straight for us that that it was chasing us and that's when we began to get concerned [Music] towards our part to graduate first and Trust is stopping [Music] let's run the Brotherhood hitches a netbook I'm talking on welfare type the warranty Mike have you got a theory I do not want to stop for you guys so I don't know if you what I'm saying Colombian Navy my god your bike and we do not want to stop for you over [Music] [Music] I can be funnier we have four crew over yes huh no filming that tuned edit was the Colombian Navy they searched the boat for cocaine gratefully took a few of our posters and took off it wasn't two months later that we discovered the bullet hole in the starboard horn of the boat but after the whole ordeal we had the best swimmer lives good to be alive you [Music] you get quite a few people come down to earth race and they think what a fantastic thing you're doing then yes I don't know the reality of it they rush things that alternate which is what's happened quite a bit on this journey so ok there's a stress of it as well occasionally we have a good split yeah you give money or something works for us for a change but often it's just rush rush and tunes to [ __ ] sort of the side of that I'm quite keen to go home just heard from our exclusive fuel responsibili biodiesel that's they're unable to come up with any more cash or fuel not great news and what I lost Torsten from the boat fruit it was decided to leave like what sure where that leaves us but just we have to go and have a chat with Pete and and talk about hey seriously what are you done Benna bodies are in a financial bind at large they don't have any money your fuel and all for us so we've got no fuel to get to Houston no all we can do is we're going to check the tanks and see how much we got how much cash we got about two and a half K in a bank plus whatever we take today but without them doing the fuel with little fuel or cash the team Drydocks the boat in Charleston and with the help of volunteers from throughout the country prepares the boat for a race they can't yet afford we're getting the boat of absolutely everything that's not essential for the race and part of it is the sound system so the amp is coming out we haven't got the resources to actually do the race or even buy the fuel but he keeps behaving as if the money will come from somewhere [Music] so we had a Twitter window closing in on us and we also had contractual obligations with our sponsors to start the race so not starting race wasn't an option at a minister find a company in Puerto Rico that agreed to supply biodiesel for the first two legs of the race so we decided to start the race and in my job is try and raise the rest of the fuel as the boat was racing in essence I was in each port of call trying to raise the fuel as the boat was coming towards me it was crazy see like say we will see and see in Panama I want some problem with the field one to take the first two legs of the race a new crew member engineer Anthony DeStefano and two new ground crew members handling the race logistics with John the earth race team after four years of construction touring and planning are in a position to start their attempt at the world circumnavigation record we're all gonna get up early and have a champagne breakfast and toast the boat when it leaves at seven o'clock from Barbados it's like real time now because it's every time that we work on our part of the job and just the boats running is coming towards us so the pressure will be on the start vessel for earth race do you copy on one six over you guys ready you know this is the day yeah it is it [Applause] [Music] the iterative avetis cheese [Music] I'd like three hours sleep last night and I can't go to sleep now and wired I'm real just crazy to eventually start this you know it's been years and years finally on our way twelve hundred and thirty nautical miles to go to the Panama Canal and just a wonderful way to start the race if we would just really now was first league please the funny vibration just started we use for vibrations on the way but they now just seemed to me consistent I think it's a product at ceiling get a pass don't come into pets there's no way they'll last the race no way at all I'll be just see there's only last it's not even a full League around us stuff they would make it to San Diego not everything [Music] haha I got some bad news these promises there are getting stuff there's quite a large chunk out of my concerns and erase all these I don't I don't like these props will last but a lot of us lost motion it's a Sun pinch and they have lifting or something out we quickly began to be last night thinking I hope these folks last the rice little bit oh I know they wouldn't last the first league [Applause] oh wow look at this pitch look how it's curved over all these are quite nice 18 hours into the race we had our first major problem the carbon-fiber props new technology latest and greatest supposed to be the most efficient method of propelling a boat started to disintegrate and this left us with a two-fold problem we had to we had to find new props that match earth race which nothing matches earth race because she's such a special boat and we had to see if we could get the money back a refund from our carbon-fiber props to pay for the new props that we need immediately I try to get a shot of the props here here's what miss what the captain has suggested that we get an entire new set up the captain is suggested that you make us an entire new pub and blade set for the power of communication computers cell phones Skype we managed to get the props order today I'm amazed to say that it all looks like it's a go and I can't see that any other way could have gotten this done any faster so it's like 38 degrees Celsius right now it's freakin high there's no air conditioning is sweet'n 24/7 pretty much and then we don't have one bed H we all rotate between number so it's so a baby white once a day is [Applause] last three prove wasn't enough to run the boat at speed on a long voyage but peeps were an opportunity to solve two of our problems by selling the fourth em fourth crew positions for five or ten thousand dollars a league these guys would come on board take their tune cooking maybe drive the boat for a stretch during the day and just generally take a bit of the load off the main crew two day journey became a four-day journey because we've had some problems run out water and this is effectively become our water supply high energy drink doesn't really lend them much sleep see the boats almost at Panama the Panama Canal entrance is right about there and looks like they got about 40 or 50 miles to go Oh it's my stuff Glenn I gotta fight Don fool and look like that this is the real problem right there see cuz once it starts to road out the Hobbit keep watering for whole thing and then it'll just snap off we're testing the quality of the fuel as it came out of the trucks it's called a flip test so we're gonna go one two and then it's not looking so good see it all the free-floating it's about micro get it in there and we just leave the conditioner running overnight [Music] the props arrived that night which we in level the 36 hour delay in Panama that was a huge team effort they get the props there in that short of time but was their first race top so well you would have to do better from there on in [Music] it's amazing how much if it has gone to get these two props in here tonight looking forward to getting in a bit water not really when you got all their local saying don't know ever need this is crocodiles really these seem to have a nice clean bite all the way to the hub which means more water flow more speed and a better chance at achieving our record [Music] [Music] it's kind of weird with we're back in this race and we're doing 1.2 knots coming in the video 2 minute very nice to get out into the ocean again and crankiness into space because the powerboating world circumnavigation rules state that the vessel must be under 120 feet that the skipper and the navigator must complete the entire voyage on board and that the boat must pass through both the Panama and Suez canals [Music] so these trains right over here these locomotives they weigh about a hundred tons and they can put out about a hundred tons of pulling force and they're locked down to the tracks last I heard only two locomotives have ever actually been pulled off the track and dumped into the water and I don't know whatever happened to the conductor [Music] [Music] you've got our last three locks to go through now before we're down into the Pacific very stressful in these canals the currents and that moved the boat around and had a couple of close calls so looking forward to open water here and everyone has shared another boat I can see Morgan reading grunts just very napkin big day getting everything together for getting through the locks we got our props on everything sorted about two hours sleep our three standard I'm looking forward to getting out to sea and falling asleep hopefully it's not rough and sleep as an option our fourth crew member for the league is actually a doctor who's flying down from New York for the voyage and he's done a bit of boating before which is handy [Music] with Trude through right through chance we hope man [Music] looks like something's gone wrong with the starboard engine not sure what yet now the problem he's all on the floor and the belch and there's a there's a bootleg somewhere in the starboard each and every fabric year it's got a little bit of digging and find out witness the oils coming forth we don't know which side [Applause] get to the hole if you speak out [Music] disappointing we need to have those parts waiting for us they're able to run at 16 knots the old record was set at 16 point 1 knots and so they're able to maintain position with the old record Haydn Anthony you've been back and forth between that engine bay and the helm for the past 30 hours now and they try something put the engine back together it doesn't work they both look so downcast and they head back down there we go back to the living hell for the next 3 hours and then I'm really yeah and I think we do 50 knots we grab a couple hour sleep we get up and pull it to bits in a fair enough I'm good with that we can I think we can weld it though having only three proper crew on board left us all exhausted if something went wrong in this particular time for Anthony or fer for all of us involved went horribly wrong amigo tres hombres okay oh do we have any other spotlight an oxygen tank McGrath's regulator show just burning water jumping song bro in la cabeza let me see some Lightning Watney out that's good boys the leads come on I got it I'm right I got it i otros Barca's cerca de aqui today's lunches are you crazylicious much and periodic Mayday Mayday Mayday Motor Vessel earth race earth race earth race position 1 3 4 6 7 6 North 9 1 - 9 - 8 Wes we have a collision with a small lunch people in the water I think one is deep we don't have any cigarettes do easy things have got really up here on the boat we had a small skiff with three fishermen on board [Music] we are currently circling the position we've got two of them on the boat but we're still missing a third individual the skipper of the skiff there's still missing overboard we can't find him Ellie see some Eagles tiene adios they say the mother went upon the question at all escucha just searching circling the spot that we marked when we hit the skiff the impact was about an hour and a half ago now so the girls probably did for sure Oh he is bleeding internally and it doesn't give him red cells or oxygen carrying potential but it keeps his heart and his blood flowing he'll it'll lower his hematocrit he'll have like an anemia but at least it'll keep his blood pressure up and I'm not happy about also he's complaining a belly pain I'm worried we may have ruptured his spleen he could be bleeding internally and so this is the normal thing you do is try and give him some volume it's really all we can do that I can think of right now until we get to a hospital the props have been damaged we got a maximum speed of five knots the older guy down there his blood pressure is dropping and I'm concerned about him I'm trying to negotiate with these three fishing boats here for one of them to take him up to the cno's a port it would take us a they asked to get there they can be there and about to pour vodka demos have lied to me go necesita in hospital what do we do we have to go back now and just as we can't dock anywhere near here there's nowhere to dock a boat together Bodo they can get into Shore fastest and the guys are saying you know it's not really the responsibilities far as we can make you on the interpretation please call us immediately as I set from zero zero north race has had a collision with what appears to be a small bottom on fish boat they tend to sit off that coast and drift at night towing a net behind them with no lights it's really common see if their port prop is down and the starboard engines down it's a really bad combination and so that's back to the airport someone's in the water they haven't been found if something in the system of the Guatemalan political sees this and says oh you know I'm gonna make some money off of this this is somebody else's tragedy but I can step in and profit from this in some way if I can hit something like that off just knowing that it's possible gives us an edge to hopefully stop such a situation from taking place [Music] number two are still alive so I'm taking a shipping vessel in Guatemala that's really small with the lights is an 18-foot bulb in outboard motor I was Sunday the whole together or the region we eventually managed to contact local Coast Guard and nav here they've sent out a navy vessel we're making such slow focus the only way this guy's going to survive if we get them on the spot quickly and get him real Hospital the sky the sky climbs on the boat with my boat is sustained damage I can only do six North his blood pressures the same as when I last measured an unfortunate but it may just be supported by the saline infusion and that he's continuing to bleed it'll come down and if we have to give him another two liters of saline and no blood he's going to have trouble [Applause] [Music] I don't know they useless youthful you look bad to you I don't quarter-mile and military personnel board the earth race vessel and inform the crew there to be escorted into Guatemala and detained the crew is safe there it's the word got out someone was killed in a boating accident a local town will work that out there and quickly and there's for significant security risk and we need to talk many to explain to this kid that we need to get there now yeah he just needs to know that we need to get there yeah the local people are aware of the situation do know that a member of their community has been injured that there could be bad feelings in the street there could be an uprising there could be taking the law into their own hands but powers-that-be do not want a major scene I think that a our familiar faces or familiar faces will be a good thing for the guys in the situation they're in you know we're confined to our boat on a military base they are going through all our paperwork right now and we're just a mess and they're getting just a general idea of what happened now we have to be careful you know we have to let them know what happened but we have to make sure that we are very clear about how we say things but we sold the water there dissipated we saw them yes we saw well don't we try we swear me out banners gone you know we haven't left the boat yet we're not cleared to leave the boat apparently there's a bunch of locals that are upset right you know understandably about what's going on and there's a bunch of media potentially frenzy going on so we're not quite sure what's happening what's the authority that they think that you people are formed from the government so the government is from the police from the police okay you have to stay here in my heart the boat you can talk with your grandpa semana yeah and to become a lawyer you are willing to represent you yep I think we will find a lawyer to know the person to know where do you have the chance to to make your first declaration right I would rather discuss it and and have everything that happened out there in the open but just the I'm from New Zealand more terminology or you need to have a lawyer for me in my crew and I'm not worried I'm just a little nervous it seems like dermology say we need we need to have America we don't have a maritime attorney on call that we're discussing these factors with in case this doesn't work out they suggest further yeah well the guy here who says they hunt I mean poor to go in a post Amelia okay yellow team okay rocky raccoon el barco is a capita about deserts the third fisherman is presumed dead and Gonzales is in a critical condition the crew are informed they will be held captive on the naval base you ah yeah I didn't realize that toe didn't [Applause] [Applause] [Music] we are don't think news explosion what do they say but they're basically saying is that's just they hate me hypothesis of what could have happened landed it mentioned that one gentleman is still missing what's the saying here is it saying that the caption check into the New Zealand we're effectively prisoners here never see we're not able to leave the base there is there was to at least some hostilities and in town towards or something it's also for a protection that they may go leaving us here we're still not allowed underneath the boat to check what damage there is they've got look at these military police over here they've got people patrolling out here with guns but we don't know what damage is there it's been a frustrating a couple of days so far we're just giving the statement really that will go to the court and I believe from that they will then make a decision where it goes from there I mean it's not easy because you know we're not sort of sure of all the customs and how things work and we've got various people advising us and different people seem to say different things so we're just trying to tread carefully through this minefield you know [Music] four days into the Guatemalan experience the crew is still detained charges haven't been laid yet but it's apparent that charges are going to be laid against peak and morale was low in the meantime we need for you to sign this and this is basically a were you agreed to have legal representation we represent you in your at one my travel agent left out the part about being arrested by the Guatemalan Navy and being restricted to their military base we have a patrol boat I've bought them all and Navy kids who are barely 17 I think with m16s that we we just tossed a bunch of ramen cigarettes to that are guarding us making sure that we don't leave in the debtor night we are in the bowels of the deepest and darkest worst bureaucracy that we could ever be trapped in we were me to be meeting with the judge about an hour ago but it looks like once again is another spinner in the words it's just Groundhog Day it's such a frustrating country to try an operator [Music] kicking a rugby ball out in the paddock there and I just rolled my ankle um it's looked it looks really bad but I'm hoping it's just a roll dankel and nothing busted quite a mile of staff this wheel with Wiesel Ian Scotland stuff I've been sitting up there begging the Commandant for three days now or something can I please get down to the boat there's a few chips and there's a few dings yeah right I'm not really feeling much of anything at all in general after this five days ago it's been kind of an emotional black hole the US citizens dr. Stark and Anthony were released quite quickly and immediately flew back to the US Peyton I being New Zealanders were kept on the Navy base and everyone was unsure when would be released we've got military police minders I don't believe we are in the wrong on this it's an accident that happened at sea and the vessel was not equipped to be up there and you know I see this as we're still painted up as the bad guys in this and guilty and yet when I look at the facts I don't believe we are no now please let me explain something to you what you're relating to me okay yes you're versatile effects they will have their own personal effects if we have to continue the process in order to reconcile all the facts then it would be a lengthy process they would be in process that would take at least three years if there's a settlement made to this family it's not admission or settlement is not a vigil event they are holding us here without charge is that legal what they're doing negligence when there is a death can rise to hate the criminal penalty and when there is a death or something like that this is so like a presumption that there is a crime somewhere [Music] [Music] and my crew and all I would like to express our deep sorrow Lomenzo mucho pesos area and we did everything we could Aseema style of the blooms as Anna I'm sorry Pete and I went and met the family of the killed fishermen we actually went on the way to court where Pete as skipper faced charges of negligence causing death and up to 10 years in prison just now proceedings are about to start and [Music] [Music] we talk [Music] manaman relieved like it was quite when the when the prosecutor when he was sort of reading out and if they still wanted to proceed with the charges and I can feel my so the stomach standard issue in just cleared its own tough week she's preparing a note that will take to the base to the Naval Base and the Naval Base will issue your clearance for you to believe and it's been a tough week in there sorry to put you through this freedom elemental momentum solo there's nothing we can do now but we're very sorry for whatever check out for those no more [ __ ] in the end there was there was a total of 135,000 135 grain that was paid to the families and I'm kind of funny with a settlement like its it and one way I saw it as us being guilty but they're desperately poor people and off so we're quite happy to see a bit of money to go to them read just just getting the props on and once we get these gone we are leaving Guatemala and we've decided as a team we are going to carry on part of it we've had so many supporters who have gotten us to where we are today I can't just turn around and not carry on with the settlement covered by insurance the team is able to continue and the race is on again did my first night shift since the collision last night and found it quite nerve-wracking you know spent the year at the helm of this boat driving at night now never had any problems - really Ram it home to me just yet dangerous it is driving at 9:00 Anthony's lift the boat crew so Elly's joined us on board the boat we're now twelve days behind Cable and Wireless and it's on the earth third lead you five seconds of strikes whatever is twice okay just try to check the boat here and see how it's going you see here last night they actually duck behind us on here I think there's a pretty rough weather had a crappy crappy night and it feels like the props been damaged again that's easier than going with them so I'm just worried it might be something gonna I am thinking how Allison is going to because the whole team just went through a big heavy ten foot seas for three days pounding into him at 20-some knots and I'm just hoping that Allison is coming out of this okay San Diego came with vibration all through the drivetrain and we knew that if we didn't solve these vibration issues that we would never be able to hold her thrace at the speed that it takes to set the world record we knew that the gearbox had been damaged in the collision the gearbox that failed this needs to be replaced so we're trying to get it out of the hatch the hatch is too small of course after we get out of the engine bay we have to get it off the boat I think we just snap filter housing is a transmission with the zero engineers and ground crew having worked straight through the night installing the new gearbox the boat is ready for an early morning departure for Hawaii I feel now like our luck has to change it's just been three legs of the worst luck imaginable we've had more mechanical problems and hassles and the past three leagues than we did in the 30,000 miles preceding the race so I think the next 10 legs got to be sweet good birth race vessel just attempted departure from San Diego but suddenly is turning around heading back to port don't know why I don't know what's going on trying to reach them via VHF channel 16 right now a lot of response so hopefully it's nothing significant I'm starting to think that Thrace is jinxed we had the issues with the propeller initially I wasn't Panama and then we had the the collision in Guatemala and last night we had to replace the gearbox and then today we've got it all set up hit it out and the driveshaft is moving like this so just praying it's not a beam driveshaft but I think it is but if the engine must aligned or the the coupling misaligned something's not right the year we had jinxed on earth race it was a bit driveshaft the time will take us to pull it straight it and realign the engine me that the record temp was now if it'll be out of our reach [Music] with wasted so much time between Guatemala and the repairs in San Diego that we decided that we would start the race again in San Diego the idea that that we would start the race again it didn't come easy I hated the idea that we'd start the race again there everything we'd done was for nothing and that would be beginning 24,000 nautical miles from scratch [Music] meeting the earth grace making time making miles jewel sort of patrol it might leave and in some cash that shows like good luck [Music] so Scott and Ellie headed to Hawaii to meet the boat and I flew to Singapore in order to set up the Asian port stops an illustration would they're flying across the Pacific and she had a section of 500 a toad on the back of the boat in order to increase her speed which was great but that also meant that I had to find even more fuel for the boat and one thing about the Prodi that always worried me was with race not being able to get the record for the reason early of me not being able to source to fuel with the restart and a trouble-free leg the earth race breaks the world record for a San Diego to Hawaii crossing arriving with a three-day lead on Cable & Wireless we're having to dodge miles [Music] oh they're coming in right on time right now look how late there's no fuel left but what was the nicest league we've hit on this race my start no fishing boats and problems didn't have any major issues make good time which is nice for a change [Music] [Music] [Music] the father diamond faithful was not enough to do all of our laundry very with the boat moving quickly across the massive Pacific Lakes the ground who is left to sort through two major problems the team's almost exhausted cash supply and getting tens of thousands of litres of biodiesel Teutonia said the guy lands with earth Thrace and that flight is $900 that's just killing us this is around the world race and what we're trying to do is to raise consciousness of alternative fuels isn't there any way that you can like lower that price from $900 to something reasonable there's three of us I'd have to fly all the way to Palau can you do something for us if we come around right here we can just go right around into that point right there no problem no problem fuel right now is in a big plastic bag inside of a container being loaded onto a truck and heading our way bodies was a logistical nightmare and a major pain in the ass and I had my own race to get the fuel down the dock before the boat arrived I was having to get all of the fuel responsive and also having to find shipping companies that will be prepared to ship the fuel because I'm the most I started places on earth free of charge [Music] a fuel stop is supposed to be four hours and it takes four days of planning to prepare for this four hours and from the time that Earth race pulls in and docks you're sweating you're moving as quickly as you can at every moment because every step has been listed out it's the most intense four hours that one could possibly spend put some drunk guy out there screaming at me at the bottom of the hole doesn't be cleaner fräulein that's probably from about two square inches of the home so why would you get down here all right now I [Music] wanna get hard to get back on the flow you get to touch land through four or five hours and you just got to jump back straight on this boat starts smacking yourself around at sea again [Music] I've spent my life on boats I make my living on boats everything I do revolves around boats making boats move and out of my hundred and fifty thousand sea miles earth race is the most uncomfortable boat that I have ever been on it isn't even in the same ballpark as as any other boat it's it's beyond belief what you live through on that boat with the boat steaming towards the Palau Islands the ground crew fly into the capital Koror only to be greeted by some bad news [Music] so we've been trying for about six weeks to get fuel shipped took the raw and just found out we're having to refill with diesel air which is a real person Marty our engineer was allergic to diesel it's not meant that he had to get off the boat it was a real blow to the team with the whole ethos of the project being to promote renewables Marty's decided to get off and pull out okay how are you with heat of all places this is really the worst place to get off they think he can make Singapore in six days there is a worldwide shortage of marine engineers when a mega yacht is looking for a marine engineer they can't even find one and they've got all the money in the world to pay and our engineer decided plow that he was going to get off the boat and this really left us stranded high and dry this is a third engineer of the race now we're in this remote Pacific island I'm truly one of the most remote places in the world and we're looking for an engineer who will work for free in miserable condition I don't know where we're going to get another engineer it's pretty expensive to fly someone in and out of here the boats the boat can get pretty hot now let me tell you the heat is oppressive it's ugly and it has a life of its own and I have never experienced anything like this this Apple is actually warm almost like an apple my and so I've never had a texture like it it's like biting into applesauce it almost runs out of the skin it's bizarre the Pacific really has been monotonous it's just so empty and so big there is no proper delineation between one day and the next on the boat it's pretty much broken up into a six-hour cycle for the permanent crew so you've got two hours driving then you've got four hours off you always feel half Duty waking someone for their shift when you're finished just have this vibration starting to come through and it needs to smoke everywhere and wait smoke is a is a typically a bad thing it's running on one engine there and Stu don't know what the problem is did any fault codes come up on the computer on your EDM when you were running well that's all bad news everyone's pretty down means an extra day on the boat as well traveling at the slow speed we very well may end up having to take the engine apart lift the engine if everything went really smooth 48 hours of constant work maybe 24 hours unbelievable [Music] this is a starboard engine number one cylinder and that piston down there has pretty well come two bits that means that it's another delay we have to wait for a piston a piston liner we have to drop the pan lift the piston lift the piston liner out and change their heads [Music] we got parts in the year we got a new head on one shipment they were sent yesterday but when they're gonna arrive we don't know we still don't have a shipping number you hear some horror stories here about something's taken a week to get here by FedEx or UPS [Music] so the cabins guys have tuned up here and the piston is not with this stuff so now we're stuck with these two technicians either/or everything we need except for a piston might as well be all of it or a - a piston either way we're still waiting race will state that when a boat is in port time still accumulates against the team's total record time regardless of the reasons for the vessel stoppage every morning I get up in it's like Groundhog Day know the piston hasn't arrived the tracking number hasn't come and I think the teams all fit up with it the finances snuck up on us a bit like on the boat you just assume that's fine and then we get here and we find there's no fuel so we're having to to buy diesel which pisses me off everything is just sort of accumulating at the moment it's a pretty depressing time right now well the piston arrived the plan is we're gonna put the piston in tonight what this does it allows us to leave tomorrow right probably two three four in the afternoon we'll get out of plough for me Palau was a low point of the race we literally didn't have enough money to fly the ground crew out of Palau nor did we have fuel arranged for the boat which means that we needed three thousand gallons of diesel fuel and so we came up with a plan we went straight to all of the media outlets and started a big hike there's two seats left over you can get on this boat you can be part of history join with Scott fetcher tell us a little bit about earth race and sure enough we found one person out of the whole island community that was willing to ride the boat and she in some way saved the earth race project [Music] with repaired engines the boat departs for Singapore with a new engineer on board our engineer that flew in to pull air wasn't particularly fond of the boat and when we arrived in Singapore made it pretty clear that he wouldn't be continuing on the rest of the voyage it's an absolute nightmare to be quite honest it's organized yeah and it surprised me that I forgot to leave these in well looks like your thrace's made Singapore safe and sound we've got three nine thousand gallons sponsored no money if we turn up say can you give us another 500 are they gonna cough up that easy enough I can call them see what other takers honest way as far as fuel in cash we're down to four ground us no immediate money on the horizon I guess what do we do from here I don't know how we can do at least forget some Malian with an entire tank of biodiesel already sponsored the boat is able to leave Singapore but without more funds coming in the challenge will end in India [Music] it's about 2,000 nautical miles to India but about 600 to get up through the Straits of Malacca and that should be pretty flat but once we get out of the top of that the forecasters are prefer to be pretty rough pretty light on crew only three which is really the minimum you need to run this boat I've got a new guy Peter on board to scragged it off the dock here in Singapore these drums are just starting to shift around all the motion and down here you can see there's a whole lot of liquid so I'm just praying that they're liquid as all bodies of five drums of fuel in here for them body so one of them is diesel and it just happens to be that that's the one that's burst Jim's I prepare we've got diesel fuel all through the sleeping quarters so probably means we're gonna sleep in the helm tonight risky bloody business this is my first attempt at cooking in here rather than today with the boat on route and only two days from Cochin the ground crew arrived in India to discover that the biodiesel fuel that organized is yet to arrive at the fuel docks [Music] we're calling the fuel sponsor we're calling the people who shipped the fuel no fueled last we heard was still at the border and earth traces suitably angry of course they're all laying in fetal position on the back half of the boat trying to sniff fresh air through the crack in the door [Music] last night when I knew we were coming into idiot I just wasn't excited at all I was just so exhausted and so sick of being on the boat but now coming in and seeing this place that is so so different I hope that they've managed to give us a shore pass so that we can at least get away from the dock for an hour what happened on the league from Singapore we just had head winds for three days and just just slamming the whole way and what it's done is it's gradually fatigued the middle bolts and two of the engine mounts so half the engine is basically unfixed at the moment just as we came in the dock there was a funny noise coming from the port engines Oh honest reaction that's lovely [Music] if there's not something wrapped around the prop we've got a serious problem here so I've got my fingers crossed there's a bit of rope or twine or something wrapped around it it's clear by the waters filthy but the prop shafts are clear and the props themselves that's really disappointing to hear I thought we'd had that all worked out so that we could move the boat and the crew could get off the boat with crew passes looks like the crew can't get off right now the shipping agent is gonna continue to work with that I thought we'd had it all worked out engine mounts have snapped on our trace but it's Sunday in India and we can't find new bolts because nobody's open today but this boat has a lathe on board that we kind of service surreptitiously heard about so we're trying to get there engineer to make us new bolts hey how's it going I'm Scott hey that's great I think we can do stain left you know okay a fuel truck was supposed to be here but the gate will be locked soon so he won't be able to come tonight there's a side to this according to coach in lore this is the fastest that the yacht has ever been checked in to coach in we have broke all the records for getting a yacht checked in to coach him so well we're gonna break one [ __ ] record a few isn't tuned up the truck lift where it was coming from 48 hours ago so we're still waiting on that not quite sure where that is the mosquitos here are just vicious Andrew being eaten alive I don't think any of us said be sleep last night was a crappy night still trying to figure out how we're gonna get our fuel here and just in limbo kind of thing the fuel truck hasn't actually made it across the border she's all bad really well at the moment they know that it was 12,000 liters so that's a good thing that means that they know enough that that they had real contact we will come down in these rashes and we're not even allowed off the boat there's no law the only reason we're all that off is just because some dude over there has just gone mmm now you can't have a shore pass mmm stuck here at this really scenic dock this contraption over there's been going since 6:00 this morning [Music] [Music] hey this is the person who live who think I've seen in this river and it looks like it's almost deed yeah i Lance is going to rescue it if we get designer G look at it for an anima dude but you check them in one of those bins and keep warm and let them dry out at least hopefully we can bring him back to life and we are yet again aligning an engine if the engine mounts installed and final alignments being made only biodiesel is needed for departure but with no fuel in sight frustration rains just sort of see in the the record slip away from us he is sitting in in bloody India waiting on fuel that was supposedly really first weeks ago they won't even give us a sure past the last to keep you sure and work on things we've stuck understand Bo here like Vickers I need to leave tomorrow mate like I honestly this is just telling us now I I need to leave here tomorrow tonight gourmet fish for a little friend and he's still alive the most important thing I have short passes for you guys this particular biodiesel that we're taking on here came from the oil from fish and so what that means is it's kind of a semi new technology for for the biodiesel industry the quality of the fuel and that is not looking particularly good I would say that's looking particularly bad it looks pretty dull ghe and I'm worried if we were to go and run this it's gonna stuff our engines so after waiting all this time for the bodies or we might end up having to reject the fuel and fill up with normal diesel which we could've done on the first day the team are forced to order a tanker of conventional diesel the Indian fuel sponsor agrees to cover the cost and with John Allen having had some success in raising funds in Oman the race can continue however with the fuel not arriving until the evening the crew have ten more hours in Jen Falkor survived now we're risking it Eileen what could tell insight [Applause] you [Music] woke up and it was quiet and obviously there is something very very wrong because neither if the engines are going can hear the guy that's working away down in the engine bay but just too nervous to go down and find out what's going wrong isolated a thousand miles from land the boat crew face days drifting at sea if unable to start the boat seek the boat this morning on the GPS and she's been stationary throughout eight hours and restricted six miles east I can't raise our on the satellite phone or the email I'm wondering what would take both engines down it could be it could be electrical we've been drifting for six to eight hours now monumental cock-up we ran out of fuel any add a tank overnight my fault there really is no excuse for around there not checking a little and trying the starter we damaged the lift pump which is like a primary pump that lifters feel to the main pump we're all back together and it's not starting still no different Oh morning running out of shots on this run our veterans all right no ice one we are out of here it looks like they're growing again what do you want she's back up and running again okay yeah speed 30 knots they're on their way and we need easier but the biodiesel from Malaysia was turned up in these 44 gallon drums Somali is here came up on the brother gear of using this tire to get the barrel fans [Music] forget with with professionals that's really awesome buncha douds here from a Somalian cargo boat have helped us move all these cargo barrels and we can begin refuelling [Music] just leave it we see it I'm safer the refueling origin see if we can have it all set up so that the [ __ ] all done we start refueling and we weren't permitted to open it until this morning when the police could come the boats ready to leave watered grocery all the mechanical stuff taken care of I asked the agents about 20 minutes ago to get the paperwork control your number nine zero to your clearance 9:02 [Music] treatise um we're just cool [Music] okay gnarly three meters I'm really sorry to hear that no it sounds dismal sounds just absolutely horrible we're about halfway up the Red Sea and the weather has been correct not really sure what the ground crew think I think they they sort of think of it as a little bit of a holiday you know there's talk of an Easter Day heading off to the pyramids we get the record for getting the boat round the globe and that really led us down on the last few slides India was appalling with the feel not really and various other things you spend three or four days at sea getting smacked around trying to save yourself an arrow - it's just incredibly frustrating I can understand the frustration of the crew on the boat there at sea they have no clue what's happening on shore I would think they really had no idea what was going on on our end of the project the struggle we were working through with moving diesel moving biodiesel finding money just in the port Suez and the Suez Canal we've been advised that no cameras are allowed that the canal is considered a military zone in Egypt and that absolutely no filming is permitted we've been told it will go to jail if we're caught with cameras just exiting the Suez Canal mayor and we made really good time through here we're on our way to Malacca and spine and the first couple of days should be fine but after that it should be quite crap again it's really no slack in the schedule from here we have got so little spare time the boys are heading into a gale straight into it straight on the nose this is probably going to be the worst conditions of the whole circumnavigation just grinding as days and the forecast is going to be like this in the next two days which will take us all the way to Spain first will cost us baby at least half a table likely a day so once again I'm cooking in a roughed-up ask the boat to approach his Spain the ground crew prepared the dock and with the storm abating the boat crew are able to inspect the engines which have been emitting error signals there's a white e blue smoke coming from the exhaust of both engines doesn't bode well for us anything simpler that gets just fine yeah starting starting last night it's like basically the boat just hurtles off waves and when it slams into a trough it's like being dropped you know four or five feet on this man it's a little hard on the kidneys things go from bad to worse when the team discovered water gushing into the forward section of the boat with the Cummings engineers on hand Diagnostics on the engines begin immediately bad right now you can tell from the galley how about the trip pointers tears lots of spilled food in here and it's kind of a massive beard this is gonna cost us looks like it started around the transducer there and there's a crack has propagated forward from it and so I got water wouldn't say gushing in but but not far off from your route is gonna originate just north of Worthy hurricanes past and it's gonna end just south of where the Hurricanes pass the route that you're about to take is gonna be just right down hurricane alley and so you know like if something were to form around you so I think we do this we repair the the cracks as best we can I mean that's quite a serious something right there with the press aware this could end the race Pete talks with the media while the crew attempt to makeshift repair on the hull best we can I mean it really looks like between the two layers that the foam has just lost its integrity is it still leakin I wouldn't actually classify there's a leak I think I would say it's like seeping time to go without time for full repairs the crew head for the Canary Islands hoping that the boat and engines will hold together heaps of water in it now now man how much water is coming in does it get any worse in this our canvas is up can you see where it's leaking yeah there you go the transducer down there it sort of cut loose from the hull that was a little crack all the way around it and that's the I mean the waters just gone up through there we're in big trouble [Music] sort of land on me pretty heavily right now with uh say you know I'm just I'm just worn out you know what coming back in now so like now that's it we do have one decent storm out the end and this boat is at serious risk well you know fifty percent of your remaining miles will be right through hurricane zone during hurricane season when I look at I've got like a ponds of the engines I got this delamination happening up there it's an accumulation of things that seem to be just making this look less and less light if I had good engines I'd probably be a lot more inclined to do it but I'm my tendency now is to say I think with I think we've done here - it's no big debris thought we deserves this yo-yo after four years of building touring and racing the decision to stop is made with the team just two legs from completing their circumnavigation in Barbados disappointed we'd feeling really I'm just going through this little area 15 foot by 8 foot wide been my home for over a year now getting all my little necks and pieces from all the different crannies of the boat fitting them into one big it's corner light at the end of a chapter nails to people moving on and then we said would get the record and we gave it our best shot which is all we can do but to still muscle this is heartbreaking oh I'm pretty bummed out pretty bummed out not really angry just emotional just of it despite all the trouble at all the thought weird something I'll pull it off I've got to figure out what to do with the with the boat now is maybe maybe put a team together and have a crate next year but I've got a stave off bankruptcy might have to go home and get a job the team established a base in Valencia and began repairs on the boat and fundraising for another record attempt [Music] one year later Pete made a second attempt at the record they completed the circumnavigation in 65 days smashing the existing record by ten days the body of Pajarito the missing fisherman was never found beautiful for the rocks underfoot oh listen [Music] Hey just [Music]

Channel: MagellanTV

Views: 1,000,486

Rating: 4.357903 out of 5

Keywords: documentary, documentaries, show, movie, magellan tv, engineering, science, global adventure, adventure, record breaking, powerboat, biodiesel, travel, navagation

Id: euXj_egklF8

Length: 102min 47sec (6167 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 02 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/BeBetterBen]

Whew... That was a wild ride.

[u/Fuckityfuckface2]

Pity it now sits at the bottom of the southern ocean after it was struck by a Japanese whaling ship and subsequently scuttled by the captain at the time.

[u/MaineObjective]

“Slow your accent down, now tell me... what is biodiesel” - Jesus Christ lady I’m a yank and can understand him just fine.