Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Sunday, September 27, 2009 11:04:20 AM
David de Rothschild is going to
make a point to all of us by sailing from San Francisco Bay to Australia in his 60 foot catamaran made of plastic 2-liter bottles.
Pier 31 is ground zero for Plastiki, the strangest-looking boat ever built in San Francisco, a fantastic vessel, a twin-hulled catamaran 60 feet long, made of 12,000 2-liter plastic drink bottles filled with dry ice. It's bound to a frame made of woven plastic, held together with heat-welded tape and steel bolts.
It's an expedition that has made headlines: David de Rothschild, tall, aristocratic and determined to succeed, plans to sail the Plastiki out the Golden Gate this fall and across the Pacific 11,000 miles to Australia to make the point that waste is bad, the planet is in trouble, and adventure is its own reward.
Well, good for him. I have a question for him though. Is he doing this to show how many great uses are contained within the 2-liter plastic bottle? Seriously though, I wish we could actually do something about the problem of trash in the ocean rather than sailing over the Pacific in a plastic bottle hoping somebody is paying attention.
