16 jan 2018 boat of the day

@CaptAmehrican Was Papillon written/came out around the same time? I used to be confused between the two when I was younger.

@CaptAmehrican

Thx!

Heyerdahl is one of those people I would have loved to have shared lots of dinners with.

@CaptAmehrican

Thor Heyerdahl (Norwegian pronunciation: [tuːr ˈhæiəɖɑːl]; October 6, 1914 – April 18, 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and geography. He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. The expedition was designed to demonstrate that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between separate cultures. This was linked to a diffusionist model of cultural development. Heyerdahl subsequently made other voyages designed to demonstrate the possibility of contact between widely separated ancient people, notably the Ra II expedition of 1970, when he sailed from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in a papyrus reed boat. He was appointed a government scholar in 1984.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl

@CaptAmehrican

På Jakt efter Paradiset (Hunt for Paradise), 1938; Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature (changed title in English in 1974).
The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas (Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen, also known as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft), 1948.
American Indians in the Pacific: The Theory Behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1952), 821 pages.
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island, 1957.
Sea Routes to Polynesia: American Indians and Early Asiatics in the Pacific (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1968), 232 pages.
The Ra Expeditions ISBN 0-14-003462-5.
Early Man and the Ocean: The Beginning of Navigation and Seaborn Civilizations
The Tigris Expedition: In Search of Our Beginnings
The Maldive Mystery
Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day: Memories and Journeys of a Lifetime
Pyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Peru’s Forgotten City
Skjebnemote vest for havet [Fate Meets West of the Ocean], 1992 (in Norwegian and German only) the Native Americans tell their story, white and bearded Gods, infrastructure was not built by the Inkas but their more advanced predecessors.
In the Footsteps of Adam: A Memoir (the official edition is Abacus, 2001, translated by Ingrid Christophersen) ISBN 0-349-11273-8
Ingen Grenser (No Boundaries, Norwegian only), 1999[59]
Jakten på Odin (Theories about Odin, Norwegian only), 2001

@therealjrn - Well, they both had a plan, a raft, and a yen to travel, so there were definite similarities. However Kon Tiki came out in '48 and Papillon in '69.

@aetris Thanks, I never was the brightest penny or the sharpest pencil. But I grew up in a household filled with books…I like both stories.

@therealjrn - I read Papillon and was fascinated, but I don’t believe I ever read Kon Tiki. I did see the film, but I get it confused with those Jacques Cousteau adventures.

@daveinwarsh

Then the crew of the original design needed very long lives.

Or cultural contact with Motörheads.