[CarrotAndStick]

[hflynn]

This sounds like old news.

[frankjr]

"Don't forget to put the plug in the bottom of the boat." Sincerely, Sean Penn

[Paradox]

Maybe they shoulda aksed Thor Heyerdahl.

[hombre_sincero]

A short-trip version of the Kon-Tiki?

[Oztrich Boy]

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
a tale of a fateful trip.
That started from this tropic port,
aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin' man,
the skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day,
for a three hour tour, a three hour tour………
The weather started getting rough,
the tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
the Magan would be lost; the Magan would be lost.
The ship took ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle,
with Vosmer, the Skipper too,
the Millionaire, and his Wife,
the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary Ann,
here on Vosmer's Isle.

[G.Mason]

"The voyage was aimed at reliving a voyage not made for about 5,000 years, when such boats plied the waters between Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula and India."

And just why is that do you suppose?

Anyone? ;)

[Professional Engineer]

Kon-Tiki

Det begynte med den dramatiske Kon-Tiki-ekspedisjonen 1947, da Heyerdahl sammen med fire andre nordmenn (Knut Haugland, Erik Hesselberg, Torstein Raaby og Herman Watzinger) og svensken Bengt Danielsson seilte på en balsaflåte fra Callao i Peru til Tuamotu-øyene i Polynesia – en strekning på ca. 8000 km, som ble tilbakelagt i løpet av 101 dager. Flåten var bygd som det Heyerdahl mente var en kopi av inka-indianernes balsaflåter, og navnet var hentet fra en mulig prekolumbisk solgud. Boken om Kon-Tiki-ekspedisjonen er oversatt til ca. 70 språk og solgt i mer enn 20 millioner eksemplarer. Filmen Kon-Tiki vant Oscar-prisen for beste dokumentarfilm 1951. Det er også blitt laget dokumentarfilmer om flere av hans senere ekspedisjoner. Etter ekspedisjonen ble flåten først sendt på turné gjennom Europa og deretter fraktet til Bygdøy i Oslo, der den fikk plass som hovedattraksjon i Kon-Tiki Museet (åpnet 1949).

[FreePaul]

They may, and I stress may, learn what "the ancients" found out about boating. If you go to sea in a boat that can leak and come apart it will. A lot of ancient would be seamen drowned in order to get a start on sea travel.

[lilylangtree]

Ah, Adventures in Paradise!

[Caipirabob]

A bid by an Australian archaeologist and other sailors to recreate an ancient voyage in a traditional reed boat has struck trouble in the Arabian Sea.

Yet not so tragic as last year's "Boat of Mud" expedition, I'm thinking...

[SunkenCiv]

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