After an unstable time early last year when Offshore Challenges’ Nick Moloney (pictured left) had to abandon ideas of doing a Jules Verne challenge with Tracy Edwards’ team to concentrate on his own Vendee Globe sponsorship campaign, his career is now looking promising.
Interestingly however, Moloney has (although he’s not quite sure how he managed it) written a book that is due to be published at the end of February. Chasing the Dawn – The Jules Verne Trophy, is a story of he and his crew’s experiences aboard Bruno Peyron’s super-cat Orange when they broke the world speed record in 2002. According to Moloney the book, which is out in the nick of time before this current record is broken, came about in a bizarre way, commenting: “Because I was the only English speaking crewmember I’d been asked to do the book straight after the Jules Verne but I wasn’t up for it because I don’t rate myself as a writer and I just didn’t have time either because we were going straight into the Route du Rhum programme. It wasn’t until I sat down to research the course for Kingfisher 2 for the other guys that I thought ‘hey, the books already here from the journals I wrote during the trip.’ All I had to do was fill in the gaps! The only thing I’m slightly concerned about is that it’s been toned down because our target is general audience not sailing audience, and in order to do this the publishers have had to cut out a fair bit of action stuff.