 |
|
11-04-2017, 11:33
|
#1
|
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: New Orleans Louisiana
Posts: 16
|
Kon-Tiki
An account of a trip across the pacific with nothing more that a raft consisting of 9 logs, a bamboo hut and a sail. In the late 40's Thor Heyerdahl set out across the pacific with a team of six men to prove that the South Sea Islands were settled from people of Peru. A great read i would highly recommend.
|
|
|
11-04-2017, 11:43
|
#2
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Bellingham
Boat: Outbound 44
Posts: 9,319
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
Here's the ugly reef on Raroia in the Tuamotus that they ended the cruise
__________________
Paul
|
|
|
11-04-2017, 11:56
|
#3
|
Resin Head

Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Seattle WA
Boat: Nauticat
Posts: 7,205
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
__________________
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
|
|
|
11-04-2017, 11:57
|
#4
|
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Chesapeake Bay/Eastern Shore
Boat: Bristol 27
Posts: 10,932
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aground
An account of a trip across the pacific with nothing more that a raft consisting of 9 logs, a bamboo hut and a sail. In the late 40's Thor Heyerdahl set out across the pacific with a team of six men to prove that the South Sea Islands were settled from people of Peru. A great read i would highly recommend.
|
They have since proven that he was wrong in that assumption ............
|
|
|
11-04-2017, 12:32
|
#5
|
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: New Orleans Louisiana
Posts: 16
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
Quote:
Originally Posted by thomm225
They have since proven that he was wrong in that assumption ............
|
That is how i found the book, but it still made for an exciting expedition.
|
|
|
11-04-2017, 12:34
|
#6
|
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: New Orleans Louisiana
Posts: 16
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul L
Here's the ugly reef on Raroia in the Tuamotus that they ended the cruise
|
That's outstanding. Thanks.
|
|
|
11-04-2017, 13:15
|
#7
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: So Cal
Boat: Lancer 44 Motor Sailer
Posts: 560
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aground
An account of a trip across the pacific with nothing more that a raft consisting of 9 logs, a bamboo hut and a sail. In the late 40's Thor Heyerdahl set out across the pacific with a team of six men to prove that the South Sea Islands were settled from people of Peru. A great read i would highly recommend.
|
I read this some time back in the 1970s. One more thing that lit my fire to go to sea.
|
|
|
11-04-2017, 13:26
|
#8
|
Moderator Emeritus

Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Jacksonville/ out cruising
Boat: Island Packet 38
Posts: 31,348
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
Quote:
Originally Posted by Diesel Bill
I read this some time back in the 1970s. One more thing that lit my fire to go to sea. 
|
Me as well, and about the same time too, I was a teenager.
Book was good, but the original movie was better than the new one to me. Original movie I guess was more of a Documentary than a movie.
His expedition I believe rekindled the thirst for such expeditions and adventures that hadn't happened since the beginning of WWII. It was the first real expedition after the war, I think.
|
|
|
11-04-2017, 14:21
|
#9
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 5,032
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aground
Thor Heyerdahl set out across the pacific with a team of six men to prove that the South Sea Islands were settled from people of Peru.
|
Not actually to prove that they WERE, but to prove that they COULD have been. He did prove that they COULD have been. Of course, as mentioned already, more recently discovered evidence indicates that they almost certainly were not.
Regardless, outstanding book that I read decades ago as a kid.
|
|
|
14-04-2017, 00:42
|
#10
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: forest city
Boat: no boat any more
Posts: 2,514
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
Quote:
Originally Posted by Diesel Bill
I read this some time back in the 1970s. One more thing that lit my fire to go to sea. 
|
same here
Thor Heyerdal: a legend in his lifetime if ever there was one!
|
|
|
14-04-2017, 02:39
|
#11
|
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: On the boat, somewhere in Australia.
Boat: Swanson 42 & Kelly Peterson 44
Posts: 9,408
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
An excellent book that I read when I was very young. I tend to blame it for most of the boating afflictions I have suffered since, including rafting the length of the Murray River in a raft that looked very similar.
__________________
Refitting… again.
|
|
|
14-04-2017, 09:53
|
#12
|
Resin Head

Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Seattle WA
Boat: Nauticat
Posts: 7,205
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
Let us not forget that several members of the expedition were resistance fighters of the highest order.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Haugland
I've read many of their personal accounts and I can assure you their time on the raft was an absolute vacation for them. They spent a great deal of time surviving in Norways roughest terrain while being hunted by the Gestapo, before finally destroying the Nazis only source of nuclear heavy water for atomic bomb research.
__________________
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
|
|
|
14-04-2017, 10:15
|
#13
|
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 2,687
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
Having read much of the Kon Tiki expedition in National Geographic , he was a Hero to me. After being in the Marquesas and reading his earlier book called Fatu Hiva, and sailing the same waters and hiking some of the same trails that the book described, I decided that his writings should be taken with a grain of salt (or maybe a bucket of salt). His death defying hike between the two villages turned out to be a pleasant 3 or 4 hour hike and the locals said that the young men do it in two hours to go see girl friends in the other village. I later got to know a fellow at the Tahiti Yacht club that had been on the raft trip from Polynesia back to South America and he agreed that Heyerdahl told pretty tall tales. It was a disappointment to have a Hero fall off of the pedestal. Grant
|
|
|
15-04-2017, 11:30
|
#14
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: forest city
Boat: no boat any more
Posts: 2,514
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
still: a BIG man! let's not piss at the feet of a monument so much taller than we are...
|
|
|
16-04-2017, 00:35
|
#15
|
Resin Head

Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Seattle WA
Boat: Nauticat
Posts: 7,205
|
Re: Kon-Tiki
Let us not also forget all of his other batsh*t crazy expeditions:
Rapa Nui
Ra Expedition (I and II)
Tigris
Maldives
Azerbaijan
In all of which places he made voyages or archeological (of a sort) explorations to further theories of early voyages by primitive cultures. Ra in particular was just as crazy as Kon Tiki, taking an Egyptian papyrus reed boat across the Atlantic to prove South America was visited by early Africans.
__________________
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
|
|
|
 |
|
Thread Tools |
Search this Thread |
|
|
Display Modes |
Rate This Thread |
Linear Mode
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
Advertise Here
Recent Discussions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vendor Spotlight |
|
|