Challenge, The: To Build the World’s Fastest Round-The-World Yacht

Synopsis: Pete Goss’s ‘Team Philips’ was a catamaran built to an ultra-radical, high-tech design, and was supposed to be the fastest ever round-the-world yacht. This programme tells the story of the design, the problems, and the eventual loss of Pete Goss’s catamaran. What went wrong in the design stages, and what were the problems of developing
ground-breaking technology with a small team?
Series: Engineering the Future (T173)
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2002
Year of production: 2001
Availability: Out of distribution
Subjects: Design; Engineering
Keywords: innovation; product design; yachts

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