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    YOURCRUISING COMMUNITY

    Mar 04, 2021 3 minutes

    Send your sailing gossip, diary dates, cruising news and club or owners’ association updates to Laura Hodgetts laura.hodgetts@futurenet.com

    First electric boat circumnavigation on hold

    Jimmy Cornell has abandoned his Elcano Challenge – a quest to retrace the world’s first circumnavigation in a fully electric boat – for now.

    The yachtsman, author and World Cruising Club founder, now in his 80s, says vital lessons were learned in the attempt to retrace the Magellan-Elcano expedition.

    , his Outremer 4.Zero multihull, proved ‘outstanding seaworthiness’ during a 1,500-mile passage from Tenerife to La Grande Motte. However, its ability to reproduce

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