Plastiki in 60 knots - closing on Australia's coast

12:27 AM Fri 16 Jul 2010 GMT

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Plastiki, the catamaran made of 12,000 plastic bottles, is nearing the end of its four-month-long journey from Sausalito in San Francisco to Sydney, and is slowly closing on the coast of Australia. The mission of the home-built yacht created by banking heir David de Rothschild, is to draw attention to the damage that Man's plastic waste, created on land, does to the ocean environment. In this last leg, they have been experiencing winds up to 60 knots, a tough call for a vessel that has had its share of structural problems during the journey. The yacht, if it makes it, ...

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by Des Ryan