The exhibition will run for a year
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The yachtsman Pete Goss has attended the opening of a major exhibition in Cornwall dedicated to his ill-fated record attempt in 2000.
The 120ft �4m catamaran Team Philips, built in Totnes, was constructed specially to compete in the no-rules, round the world event, The Race.
The display at the National Maritime Museum will show how the vessel came to break up in the Atlantic Ocean.
It shows the catamaran's voyage from construction to its wreckage.
The vessel was designed to be the biggest, fastest and most high-tech of boats.
In December 2000, en route to the start of the Race in Barcelona, the catamaran had to be abandoned in 70 knot winds and 10 metre-high waves.
Team Philips was built in Totnes
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Later a 40ft piece of the hull was salvaged off Iceland and members of the public will be able to see it in the new exhibition.
National Maritime Museum Cornwall Boat Collections Manager, Andy Wyke, said: "Moving a 40ft piece of such a special boat through the narrow and windy streets of Falmouth and into the Museum was always going to be a very delicate operation.
"Our nerves were shot to pieces by the end of the journey, but all the stress has definitely been worth it and it looks magnificent in its new setting."
The exhibition, which was opened officially on Friday, will run for a year.
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