Indefatigable eco-adventurer David de Rothschild has constructed a 60-foot catamaran made from thousands of recycled plastic bottles held together with cashew nut glue.
He plans to sail the solar and wind-powered craft 11,000 miles from the San Francisco Bay to Sydney harbour in Australia. Inspired by the famous Kon-Tiki raft expedition in 1947 which sailed from South America to Polynesia, this boat is called, naturally, the Plastiki.
Clearly as mad as a buttered octopus, Green Thing wishes the All-Consuming Plastiki and her crew of five luck and a following wind. Marvelous.
[Spotted in the New York Times]
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