World record holder sails into Bay
Ocean Adventurer 1 stopped in at Tuzi Gazi Small Craft Harbour in
Richards Bay*
Tanya Waterworth
MAKING a brief port of call in Richards Bay, the 'Ocean Adventurer 1' caught many admiring glances from onlookers on the quayside.
The claim to fame of this 115-foot stabilised monohull vessel is that it is still the world record holder to circumnavigate the globe under 80 days in a motor-powered vessel.
Originally called the 'Cable & Wireless Adventurer', the vessel left Gibraltar on 19 April 1998 on its pioneering 26,000-mile world-wide journey which was completed in 74 days, 20 hours and 58 minutes.
It broke the powered world record previously held by the nuclear submarine, USS Triton, which completed its voyage underwater in 1960 in 83 days, nine hours, 54 minutes.
A stabilised monohull with high-tech twin-diesel engines, Cable & Wireless Adventurer was equipped with mostly British-designed, state-of-the-art navigation and communications equipment.
Construction of the vessel began in June 1997 and she was launched on 16 March 1998. The official naming ceremony took place on 3 April 1998 in London's West India Dock.
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