Vacation Resorts: Art and Travel in Mexico

Earthrace, the Eco-friendly Trimaran, Visits New York's Green Neighborhood, Battery Park City

New York, New York (PRWeb) November 19, 2006 -- Earthrace, Ltd., the charitable organization run by volunteers, steers the eco-friendly boat with the same name to North Cove Yacht Harbor where it has been open to the public since Friday, November 17. It is fitting that this extraordinary vessel is on display in Battery Park City, a green neighborhood that "leads the way in setting standards for healthy and sustainable environments."

Renowned New Zealand navel architects Craig Loomes Design Group designed Earthrace. Calibre Boats, a builder of high-tech custom yachts, built the attention grabbing trimaran, or multi-hulled boat. To ensure the lowest weight and highest strength possible, the hull construction is carbon fiber and Kevlar.

Earthrace's design is a showcase for environmentally friendly technologies provided by sponsors Cummins Mercruiser Diesel (CMD) and Better Biodiesel (BBD). CMD provided two standard engines that power the boat using only 100% biodiesel fuel provided BBD. Even the paint used for the boat is a natural, non-toxic wax.

Earthrace will be open for tours through 5:00 p.m., Sunday, November 19. Her crew invites the media and public to stop by to tour the boat and learn more about their 18-month promotional tour of 60 cities and plans to set a new UIM (Union International Motonautique) powerboat record for circling the globe before she leaves Manhattan on her way to Philadelphia.

For more information on Earthrace, to make a donation or sponsor Earthrace, or to track the voyage, please e-mail Devann Yatta or visit http://www.earthrace.net.

About Earthrace
The Earthrace mission is to raise awareness about environmentally friendly, sustainable fuels and to be the world's first UIM powerboat to attempt to break the record for an equatorial circumnavigation via the Panama and Suez canals using only alternative fuels.

About the Team
There are six Earthrace crewmembers. They left their families and careers to make a global impact by raising awareness about alternative fuel sources:

Pete Bethune, 41, from Auckland, New Zealand, is the founder of Earthrace, Ltd. and captain of Earthrace. Pete and his wife Sharyn invested their life savings and mortgaged their home three times for this dream.

Torsten Sandmark, 19, from Dunedin, New Zealand, is a boat crewmember with a background in commercial fishing. (He is leaving the crew in New York City to return to New Zealand).

Ryan Heron, 23, from New Zealand, is filming and documenting the voyage.

Mike Schimann, 26, from Vancouver, Canada, is a boat crewmember with a background in logging and heavy machinery.

John Allen, 40, from New Zealand is ground crew and oversees all marketing and sponsorships.

Devann Yata, 23, from Oceanside, California is ground crew as well as the media liaison.

Contact:
Devann Yata, Media Liason
Phone: (760) 685-3763

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