mini-JUNK sails the Deschutes River
By Marcus Eriksen on May 31, 2011
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Bottle boat #15(?) built in Bend, Oregon. "The Deschutes River Rover" was built by students on the bank of the river after assembling 150 2-liter bottles into a make-shift boat. 5 Gyres staff were on hand to test the contraption in frigid snow melt. We brought the LA Cola Kayak and the Cigarette Lighter SUP as examples of what can "float your boat". It worked surprisingly well for the short trip down the river, as students ran along the bank cheering the test run of their creation, but then....
Disaster struck as the seams between the bottles began to unravel. What began as frigid toes turned into a full dunk. Two lessons learned here.
1. Any piece of plastic can flow to the gyres from any watershed in the world.
2. If you build a bottle-boat, use more duct tape.
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