boating

Plastiki – update of a classic adventure

Kent sent this in through the comments: Plastiki is a boat built entirely from reclaimed plastic bottles will sail from San Francisco to Sydney. The project is intended to raise awareness of the human impact on oceans and other ecosystems. The boat is made up of about 16,000 plastic bottles and is an “effort to […]

Continue Reading April 11th, 2009 Chris Connors1

Val ties the canoe

For the past couple of decades, Val has been using this knot to tie down everything from canoes, tarps and other implements of camping and boating. Last summer, I captured it on camera as he showed it to me and Mark. Whenever I see somebody driving down the road holding a mattress on the roof […]

Continue Reading March 14th, 2009 Chris Connors30