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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums72 year old crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a "barrel". With pics.
He Crossed the Atlantic in a Barrel. We Asked Him About Dodging Ships and Using La Toilette.
The French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin spent over four months alone, floating across the Atlantic Ocean. Its freedom, he said.
On a journey across the Atlantic Ocean, the French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin spent 127 days alone in a large, barrel-shaped capsule made of plywood, at the mercy of the winds and currents. He had no television. No Facebook or Twitter.
In December, Mr. Savin, a former military parachutist, pilot and park ranger in Africa, set sail from the Canary Islands, the Spanish archipelago west of Morocco, in the orange vessel he built. It measures about 10 feet long and 6 feet 8 inches wide.
What were your happiest moments during the trip?
When the American oceanic vessel Ronald Brown [the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations research vessel Ronald H. Brown] came after 62 days to refuel me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/world/atlantic-ocean-barrel.html
Rambling Man
(249 posts)that's a little more than a "barrel."
It's a "vessel." And evidently it's an "ocean-going vessel."
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)people use to use to go down Niagara Falls. Of course, most of them didn't survive the trip.
This vessel is the ocean-going equivalent of a tiny house. Personally I don't want to live in one, and I wouldn't want to cross an ocean in one, but if others want to live or travel in one, then go for it.
Rambling Man
(249 posts)but it's still clickbait.
underpants
(182,904 posts)As the New York Times stated. Just saying.
Rambling Man
(249 posts)but it isn't a "barrel."
No knock against you, it's just misleading (NYT headline).
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)Maybe there's some in the construction, but it's not by any means entirely made of plywood. Probably not more than 10 or 20 percent.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)Le tonneau dans lequel Jean-Jacques Savin devrait prendre place pèse 200 kilos et fait 3 mètres sur 2 © sponsor Tonnellerie Boutes
Nitram
(22,890 posts)underpants
(182,904 posts)I shouldn't have put it in quotes. My bad.
appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)Vineyard in Portugal, stay in a barrel overnight. (Way to sleep off a hangover).
California wine barrels.
The Heidelberg Tun, largest wine barrel in the world.
More, https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212080242
underpants
(182,904 posts)onethatcares
(16,188 posts)isn't OSB
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)His "barrel" didn't tumble around and around. Well conceived, but it's a "barrel" in his mind only.
delisen
(6,044 posts)such as an average wine barrel or some of the more typical old time sized shipping barrels.
I really like this ocean-going barrel. Hope we all don't have to start considering them as living quarters though as the oceans rise.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)underpants
(182,904 posts)Thanks.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)Although it's also clear from the photos that the plywood got covered inside and out with other materials.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)He didn't build the barrel himself - it was made by two French companies
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)How long into his voyage might these pics have been taken? His cabin is already pretty "lived-in" looking to be Day 1 or 2. He says he was refueled on Day 62...wonder if they also brought him provisions.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)That would be the opposite of freedom as far as I'm concerned. What do you have freedom to do? Float in a "barrel" I guess. It's not like you can get out and go for a walk.
3catwoman3
(24,053 posts)Last edited Sat May 11, 2019, 02:33 PM - Edit history (1)
...no way in hell would I find this even remotely tempting.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)underpants
(182,904 posts)Wise or otherwise.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)This 72 yr old has bigger balls than me. No way in hell would I try to cross the ocean alone.
2naSalit
(86,802 posts)no way on this planet would I do that for the thrill. For survival, maybe but otherwise nope.
tavernier
(12,406 posts)these might be the next coming luxury apartments, with an ocean view.
underpants
(182,904 posts)That'd go for about $1000 a month in Richmond.
They are slapping up apartments around here like they are Redboxes.
There's 160 unit apartment building going up right now in the footprint of a bank.