A real adventure

[Skybird]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,494018,00.html

The attempt recalls the voyage of Thor Heyerdahl, who sailed a wooden raft called the Kon-Tiki 4,300 miles (6,920 kilometers) across the South Pacific in 1947 to prove that the Polynesians could have had pre-historic contact with peoples in South America. Whereas Heyerdahl's boat could only sail with the wind, Görlitz has conducted experiments with Stone Age boats in the Mediterranean that prove such primitive boats could also be maneuvered to sail against the wind -- an important finding to prove that cross-ocean trade was, in theory, possible.