Any vegetable oil on board will displace Diesel fuel. Our main engine is capable of running at full capacity on Filtered/Dried Waste Cooking Oil. The reason we use waste oil is both cost and environmental impact. Diesel is $1.50 per liter in Australia, waste oil is $0.05 - $0.28c per liter. It also is significantly better environmentally and has higher lubricating properties than low-sulfur diesel, promoting longer engine life. 

We brought Brupeg in 2014 after she had sunk in a flood. It was love at first sight. She was a stripped-out steel hull about to be cut up for recycling. We had a pretty specific set of requirements and it took us four years to find the right boat. The places we want to go are often hostile and demanding and need a strong hull so it had to be steel to cope with the conditions, it’s likely we’ll be pushing through sea ice for days or coping with 60 knots + pretty regularly. To reach remote places where refueling is difficult or impossible we need ultra-long range and we want to share our travels so it has to accommodate and feed a good number of people comfortably. 

A big part of the adventure for us is building Brupeg. The engineering challenges, completing jobs, creating systems, seeing the progress, and knowing it’s getting us closer to our goal. If you’re curious about what it takes to build a boat like Brupeg check out our videos. The first step of rebuilding Brupeg is nearing completion. In three to six months we hope to be launching. Once we're in the water we’ll complete the interior fit-out and all of the systems testing and sea trials.

This is a story about ingenuity, perseverance, hard work, and amazing friends and family helping along the way. Thank you, your support has all been unbelievable!

Even though we recognize the enormity of the challenge we want to see some of the most remote places on the planet and we want to share those experiences with others, so we hope you’ll join us.