As editor of The Plastiki -- the all-recycled-PET catamaran that's been sailing across the Pacific Ocean since February -- has reached its destination in Sydney, Australia.
The last 200 nautical miles of the 10,000-nautical-mile journey were made with the help of a tow, after the main sail was damaged off the Queensland coast.
Captain David de Rothschild told the Sunshine Coast Daily: "To date we have made a number of routine and unplanned stops during the voyage and this tow and stop will be no different."
For more background, including a video and lots of links, check these earlier Plastic Blog posts that featured the Plastiki:
Video on how the Plastiki was built
Comments (1)
I've got real mixed feelings about this.
Part of me liked the project in principle, as I think making a boat from plastic water bottles would be quite an engineering challenge. It's akin to the U of Minn. Civil Eng department that held annual cement canoe races.
However, the engineering challenge was clearly not the point of the venture, and the failure of the boat shows that maybe water bottles are not quite so durable as the designers believed.
Posted by John Spevacek | July 22, 2010 10:03 AM
Posted on July 22, 2010 10:03