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[Rick Clark]

[ 12-11-2005, 10:34 PM: Message edited by: Rick Clark ]

[Tom Robb]

Well, this stuff would seem to put the lie to any notions of Intellegent Design.
Or maybe there's intellegently designed stupid people :rolleyes:

[Rick Clark]

[ 12-11-2005, 10:35 PM: Message edited by: Rick Clark ]

[Tristan]

First I've heard of them. Looks like they've got a whole lot more balls than I have. Jeez, that raft they crossed the Atlantic in must have been put together pretty well, but it looks like hell. I always worry about folks like this but by now they must know pretty well what they're doing.

[Wild Wassa]

Originally posted by Rick Clark:
" ...has anyone been following these people for the last four years?"

Nat Geo had a doco about them building the raft/boat(?) a few years back. They mentioned that anything that they found floating in New York Harbour or down the Hudson or picked up off the streets of New York qualified to be used as materials for the raft, they prided themselves on what usable flotsum that they found.

They're still going, cool.

Warren.

[adampet]

They were a local fixture in Provincetown a while back. More courage than sense, but God does look after fools.One iteration of their raft capsized due to snow on the roof! They were less than hygenic in thier waste disposal, prefering to exit everything overboard in the harbor. An interesting tussle between the harbor Master, who wanted them out of town, and the Coast Guard, who wanted to declare them unseaworthy. They did manage to work their way to England, and were refused entry because of un-quarentined dogs.

[Ellis Rowe]

Read an article about them in the New Yorker a few months ago. Maybe it's a failure in my character (I consider myself a pretty tolerant person), but somehow these types of stories make me angry. I used to enjoy Farley Mowat, but upon reading The Boat That Wouldn't Float I was just perturbed at the stupidity of the whole situation.