Imagine collecting thousands of empty plastic bottles, lashing them together to make a boat and sailing the thing from California to Australia, a journey of 11,000 miles through treacherous seas.
You’d have to be crazy, or trying to make a point. David de Rothschild is trying to make a point.
De Rothschild hopes his one-of-a-kind vessel, now being built on a San Francisco pier, will boost recycling of plastic bottles, which he says are a symbol of global waste. Except for the masts, which are metal, everything on the 60-foot catamaran is made from recycled plastic.
“It’s all sail power,” he said. “The idea is to put no kind of pollution back into the atmosphere…Â
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For the young and restless, what better outlet for their energy than thrashing around in little boats?
Most of their elders took backseats in the Southern California Yachting Association’s annual E.E. Manning Regatta organized and hosted by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club Saturday and Sunday. The event dates to 1935, a time to which none of the major winners could possibly relate.
Freckle-faced Riley Gibbs of ABYC, all of 12, won the …Â Details
After more days going up wind than anyone in the Volvo fleet cares to remember, the fleet has finally cracked off and is experience ‘proper’ Southern Ocean conditions as the five boats race onwards towards Cape Horn and the second of two scoring gates on this leg of the course.
‘What a relief. Finally the breeze has swung enough to le us ease sheets and get the good ship going fast in the right direction,’ noted Ericsson 4’s bowman, Ryan Godfrey. ‘It has been days now that our distance to the finish has not budged, so what a pleasure the past 24-hours were, to be doing 20 knots and heading east,’ he said.
Meanwhile, out in front, and averaging a comfortable 18.8 knots, with 3,000 nautical miles to run to Cape Horn is …Â Details
After more days going up wind than anyone in the Volvo fleet cares to remember, the fleet has finally cracked off and is experience ‘proper’ Southern Ocean conditions as the five boats race onwards towards Cape Horn and the second of two scoring gates on this leg of the course.
‘What a relief. Finally the breeze has swung enough to le us ease sheets and get the good ship going fast in the right direction,’ noted Ericsson 4’s bowman, Ryan Godfrey. ‘It has been days now that our distance to the finish has not budged, so what a pleasure the past 24-hours were, to be doing 20 knots and heading east,’ he said. … Details