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Plastiki – update of a classic adventure

Chris Connors

Making things is the best way to learn about our world.

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 […]

Val ties the canoe

By Chris Connors

Chris Connors

Making things is the best way to learn about our world.

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March 14th, 2009 30

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 […]

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