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You’d expect the environmentally-driven 11th Hour Racing Team to push harder than most when it came to building their latest Imoca 60. They did not disappoint…

There’s a quick, cost-neutral, and almost effortless way to massively reduce the environmental impact of building a high-performance sailing yacht. For an Imoca 60, you can cut the total carbon footprint by almost a third, simply by ensuring that the boatyard and key suppliers are on a 100 percent renewable electricity tariff. It’s usually easy to switch energy suppliers and renewable energy is becoming very competitive in price, so it can be a triple bottom line win – for the client, for the builder and for the environment…

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