Would have been cheaper and less expensive to just buy a small trolling boat....

/on Junk Wars, you are not

did they have to worry about the plastice melting?

cheaper and less expensive are the same thing...

"cheaper and easier"

Were there plasticine porters with looking glass ties?

"Plastice"? Ugh.

Maybe a little editorial spelling correction wouldn't be a bad thing. The increasing number of poorly spelled headlines on Fark is becoming tiresome.

/cue grammar nazi pics

ok.. after R'ing TFA

I am going to say that these guys are idiots

and i have nothing better to do thatn to call them idiots... at 2:18am.... alone... in a thread with 2 other people

Note they also met a woman along the way.

"We exchanged the necessities of life," Mr. Eriksen said. "And that kept us going."

I bet it did.

zamboni: Were there plasticine porters with looking glass ties?

winner!

really wrong thread lol

Man, makes my trench coat look so... pedestrian.

Penis.

Only 24 people showed up, including family and friends!??!?!

3 farking months and only 24 people including family and friends show up to celebrate your accomplishment!?!?!

That sucks

Okay, these guys built a sailboat out of junk and took it on a trip from LA to Honolulu. What the frak did any of us do in the last three months that comes close to that?

Yeah, but what they didn't tell you is that it was only supposed to be a three-hour tour.

Then the skinny guy ruined it by breaking the coconut radio.

/fat guy smacked him over the head.

Jarhead_h: Okay, these guys built a sailboat out of junk and took it on a trip from LA to Honolulu. What the frak did any of us do in the last three months that comes close to that?

Not build a raft out of trash and sail across a farking ocean?

I think we win.

They built a sailboat out of junk and sailed to Hawaii... and met a woman rowing there along the way...

What is climbing Mt. Everest not enough anymore?

I'm planning a hike next week... to MARS.

Epiphany: Only 24 people showed up, including family and friends!??!?!

3 farking months and only 24 people including family and friends show up to celebrate your accomplishment!?!?!

That sucks

So much for his "raising awareness." 24 people and a story in The Hindu.

Mosey: Epiphany: Only 24 people showed up, including family and friends!??!?!

3 farking months and only 24 people including family and friends show up to celebrate your accomplishment!?!?!

That sucks

So much for his "raising awareness." 24 people and a story in The Hindu.

Ya, not like it the story made the typical rounds on the internet. How short sited of them.

Err, I resemble that remark.

Raptor_1.4G: Note they also met a woman along the way.

"We exchanged the necessities of life," Mr. Eriksen said. "And that kept us going."

I bet it did.

They met up with Roz Savage. She's attempting to row the Pacific ocean. She was running out of water and had food to trade.

Just what the article said.

http://www.rozsavage.com/

That's not a Cessna. It looks like a Piper Warrior or Arrow.

If for no other reason, than submitter's headline, kill this thread... kill it now.

/necesary euthanasia

Nevermind. It's 3 AM, I can't sleep, and I'm an idiot. It's a 310.

Airbus-Driver: That's not a Cessna. It looks like a Piper Warrior or Arrow.

It's a Cessna 310. Really: http://www.junkraft.blogspot.com/

Cyber_Junk: Err, I resemble that remark.

LOL

Richard Saunders: If for no other reason, than submitter's headline, kill this thread... kill it now.

/necesary euthanasia

I sincerely hope that you are not referring to the submitter's poor spelling.

They were going to eat it, but when they cut it open they found its stomach was full of plastic confetti.

thanks GOP

pummisher: They met up with Roz Savage. She's attempting to row the Pacific ocean. She was running out of water and had food to trade.

yup. they gave her gallons of water, a hand cranked water maker, some fresh killed and grilled fish. she gave them some energy bars.

she had to backtrack for a day to rendez-vous with those guys. amazing lady. this is just leg 1 of three for her. (san fran to waikiki. she'll be getting there this week.

Thor Heyerdahl is not impressed.

farkwell:
she had to backtrack for a day to rendez-vous with those guys. amazing lady. this is just leg 1 of three for her. (san fran to waikiki. she'll be getting there this week.

Hmm, she doesn't have the best of luck with these things, all her equipment cacked out on her last trip too:

On March 14, 2006 she completed the first leg by finishing the Atlantic Rowing Race as the only solo female competitor, taking 103 days to complete the crossing. This she did unsupported, despite breaking all four of her oars and having to row with patched-up oars for more than half the race. Her cooking stove failed after only 20 days, then her navigation equipment and music player. She managed to maintain her daily weblog right up until day 80 when her satellite phone failed, leaving only the movement detected by her positional transponder to indicate that she was still alive. (Wikipedia)

I honestly don't know how people do these things -it takes all my energy to get up in the morning, and if I'm alone for more than a day or so I start to go skitzy. I'd be talking to a volleyball by the end of week one.

pummisher

It was a joke. I'm a perv. Reread it as such.

Tom Hanks is not impressed.

From their blog:

There were perhaps 100 people there to greet us, including plenty of media.

It did look like closer to 100 people in the pictures I saw.

Wow, way to scoop nobody at all. This story has been out for months now.

Don't Haitians and Cubans show up in Miami this way about every week?

FTFA: The three want "single-use plastics" to be banned, saying they're wasteful and usually end up in the ocean. "Recycling is one solution, but it's just a small part of the puzzle," Mr. Paschal said.

What? Billions of these bottles (and other products) are made each year, and only millions of them wind up in the ocean. I'm not saying that it's a good thing, but you can't use the word USUALLY. You could say, "A Lot of them".

Raptor_1.4G: pummisher

It was a joke. I'm a perv. Reread it as such.

That's OK, Raptor, I came here to make the same joke.

Now, thanks to the link to the Roz page (she's HOT) it's especially appropriate.

I'm betting with you - they "exchanged" the "necessities" of "life".

wabash13: did they have to worry about the plastice melting?

curse you