Video summary

by admin on February 15th, 2013 at 2:05 pm
The ACCIONA team would like to send you this video summary with the impressive images of the rescue of Spanish skipper Javier ‘Bubi’ Sansó on 3rd February, and the recovery of ACCIONA 100% EcoPowered, the first zero emissions racing boat, from the North Atlantic on 6th February.

ACCIONA 100% EcoPowered is now in Punta Delgada (Azores)

by admin on February 11th, 2013 at 9:40 am
We now have the first images of the rescue! The mast is broken in three places and a study of the rest of the damage incurred will now be undertaken. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Go Bubi!

by admin on February 7th, 2013 at 4:12 pm
Don’t miss the video sent by the students of the Lycée Français in Valladolid to encourage and support Javier Sansó.

Bubi’s first words from Terceira

by admin on February 6th, 2013 at 7:00 am


Having rested since yesterday on the Island of Terceira and being rescued by the Portuguese Air Force, Javier Bubi Sansó, skipper of ACCIONA 100% EcoPowered, the first ever totally eco-powered boat, has now fully recovered and is looking forward to many things.

“First of all I would like to thank the Portuguese Air Force for their rescue. It really was a spectacular feat, and I also want to reassure everyone that I am in good physical health. I am absolutely fine.

I am also feeling in very good spirits because the aims of ACCIONA 100% EcoPowered have almost completely been fulfilled. We were just “4 miles” from the finish line. It is a real shame not to have finished, but the objectives that I believed in have been proven, and that is to sail with a boat that is 100% eco-efficient. This was our main goal, and this is the objective that remains.

We sailed around the world. The team can be truly proud of the work they did in the last three years, and now it is time for us to continue; we have to keep investigating and doing more things.
That is all. I am really grateful to everyone that has followed us, and for the support messages I have seen on-line. I have been on the internet and I am really grateful for them. When you are experiencing this kind of thing and something like this happens, it is really quite moving to see just how concerned people are for you.

But as you can see, I am perfectly ok and ready for action! Now it is time to try and get the boat back and get it back into shape. So from here sending greetings to you all!”

Thanks Bubi

by admin on February 5th, 2013 at 10:00 am
Dear Javier,

At ACCIONA we only have words of gratitude for such an unforgettable experience that you have enabled us to share with you.

You were only 1400 miles, and about five days before the arrival in Les Sables d’Olonne, on 3rd February at 11.49 (CET) and 360 miles from the south of the Azores when the boat capsized and your retirement from the race was inevitable.

Up until that moment, and with your great effort and expertise ACCIONA 100% EcoPowered had completed 85 days of sailing over 26,000 nautical miles solo, non-stop, without outside assistance and without CO2 emissions.

Now as you are safe and sound at the Lajes de Terceira aerial base it is time to reflect on the enormous challenge that ACCIONA has undertaken during this time.

For the first time in the history of offshore sailing, a boat driven exclusively by clean and non-fossil fuel energy has been able to successfully complete a lap of the world, solo and non-stop. It was on 21st January at 22.25 GMT when ACCIONA 100% EcoPowered en-route home crossed the exact same point it had sailed south in the area of the Island of Trinidad, and as such realizing a ‘de facto’ lap of the world; becoming a historical reference point in the world of competitive offshore sailing.

Bubi, we are absolutely convinced that thanks to the great effort you and the whole team have made, we are leading the way in new forms of thought and behaviour, showing that it is possible to face any challenge and with the sole support of the energy provided by nature. Moreover we are sure that in the next Vendée Globe there will be other boats that will follow in the wake of this unique gesture; it is the only possible future.

Of course we would also like to send our thanks to the different rescue services whose professionalism and celerity made the rescue of Bubi possible, thanks also to the Vendée Globe organization, it has been a pleasure and great honour to take part in this race. And finally we wish to thank the thousands of fans and followers who have continually shown us their support throughout the most difficult of times.

ACCIONA