World Record Attempt

N C Times | 20 Sept. 2006 | HAYNE PALMOUR IV

[Jeffrey_D.]

From what I gather......that pic is a prototype. The actual boat will be almost 3x that size.

www.earthrace.net

[CholeraJoe]

I predict these guys will be rescued by a Japanese freighter somewhere in mid Pacific.

Or else your tax dollars and mine will pay for a rescue task force to be scrambled out of Hickam in the middle of the night and some poor sap will have to rappel headfirst down to a rolling deck in pitch darkness to lift these rich SOBs to safety.

Is it evident that I'm bitter?

[kjam22]

:) Maybe just a little :)

But I see your point!

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Yeah, you sound a little bitter.

This reminds me of one of Jesse Venturas campaign ads that went in effect "While Skip Humphrey and (the other dilletante) where partying down at Harvard, Jesse was getting all cold and wet for you." Picture of Seal swimmers rapeling down deck of sinking ship.

[NittanyLion]

A picture of two kids and three dogs? Am I missing something?

[Ladysmith]

heh heh! Direct link to the site and they changed the image.

[radar101]

Go to
http://www.earthrace.net

[radar101]

[Ladysmith]

Oh, dial-uppers are going to be mad at you! LOL!

Purdy piece of machinery, though! :o)

[CholeraJoe]

I never minded rescuing a sick crewman off a freighter, a downed pilot or airevacing a baby. It was the stupid ones that galled me.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

I'm sure risking your neck because someone had a room temperature IQ must have put your teeth on edge.

[Diddle E. Squat]

A picture of two kids and three dogs? Am I missing something?

Yes, the fourth dog.

[NittanyLion]

Damn. See, that's why it pays to ask...