The boat has been constructed out of more than 12,000 recycled plastic bottles as stated by the National Geographic News. Along with David de Rothschild, skipper Jo Royle, co-skipper David Thomson, and Josian and Olav Heyerdahl would be a part of the crew.
The Plastiki can sail only in downwind. The average speed at which this sailboat would move would be five to six knots. The sail would begin at San Francisco for Sydney passing through the coast to San Diego and Baja, then catches the currents and trade winds that would go towards the Equator and the Line Islands.
The recycled bottles are soft and fragile, but when packed together they become buoyant, strong, and stable. The bottles are there in their original form, pressured to about 36 psi, equivalent to a truck tire, with carbon dioxide. The boat is buoyancies on the bottles.
