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Like Diogenes Across the Atlantic (2018)
At Christmas 2018, 71-year-old Jean-Jacques Savin climbs into a barrel to drift across the Atlantic.
It’s hard to believe that Jean-Jacques Savin wants to drift across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands in a self-built plywood barrel, driven only by wind and waves. float reported on two young Finns who sailed across the Atlantic in a 4.30 meter long motorboat aptly named “Psycopaatilla”, went off course, were picked up by a cargo ship, were launched again, then capsized with their boat and finally actually arrived. In the fall of 2018, a small autonomous sailing boat called “SB Met” successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the Microtransat Challenge, remotely controlled without a crew on board.
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