![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There has been quite a lot of work on the usefulness of the company. In total, the rafts have each covered more than 6,000 miles across the Pacific. The crews had to deal with very unusual circumstances such as six meters high waves. That the adventure on the way back stranded has to do with the for the time of the year very violent El Nino effects on wind and currents. After only 46 days the Easter Islands were indeed reached. The goal was to sail from the South American West Coast to the Easter Islands and back. Yet the leadership does not speak of a failed adventure. That is the 14 participants, who undertook the expedition on two rafts, failed.īecause of the heavy seas, the rafts and especially the lianas used to make the connections between the tree trunks were so worn that further sailing became impossible. The journey of the Kon Tiki 2 had to prove that the residents could return to South America by raft. Help from Chile to be rescued from their plight.Īlready in 1947 the Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl wanted to show that the original inhabitants of South America were able to reach the islands of the South Pacific with balsa rafts like his ‘Kon Tiki’. ![]() The participants called for 1000 miles west After four and a half months at sea, the adventure of the Kon Tiki 2 has ended. ![]()
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