Xia Yu and friends assembled in the bottles to the vessels of Xiangtan News newspaper rack
8:30 yesterday , Xia Yu Xiang and friends embarked on a rafting trip , they drift tool Is a boat with a drink bottle to do . They proceed from the Xiangtan Second Bridge , downstream, is expected to arrive today at 5 pm Changsha Orange Island . XIA also plans to build a bigger boat , when he and friends drift boat to Shanghai .
36-year- old Yu Xia , likes outdoor sports , he had previously published Everest , Meili Snow Mountain , has also twice by canoe drifted from Xiangtan , Changsha . XIA Yuhu Road in Xiangtan City, opened a tea restaurant , shop, drink a lot of consumption ,
上海团购网, usually discarded beverage bottles are sold to a scrap shop. XIA find these discarded bottles and can not sell some money , like drifting Why not , he would like to make a boat these drinks bottles , drifting from Xiangtan to Shanghai , along the way can also promote environmental awareness .
nearly a year's time , XIA collected more than 1,500 bottles, started working ship . After nearly a month of effort, every day from 3 people turn manufacturing, Xia Yu 's ship finally made a . Drifting boat length 6m, hull length 4m, width 1.5m, the total height of about 4m, mainmast high 3.5m. Mainsail drawn into the national flag pattern , tail fan with the words
day before yesterday, Xia Yu and his friends are transported to the Xiangtan City Yangmeizhou hull assembly test the water. Beverage bottles made great ship buoyancy , water testing station for nearly 10 people on board , the ship is still able to navigate on the surface . Yesterday 8:30 , Xia Yu and three friends in Xiangtan City, the second bridge into the water by boat , drifting to Changsha . As the north wind blowing , wind can only paddle and row boats . Other friends were divided into two sets , the shore accompanied by another wave , ready to replace the tired people on board ; another call is responsible for logistics, first went to the other side of the sandbank Zhaoshan wait. And yesterday 17:30 Xu , Xia Yu , who plans to Dazhao mountain waters according to their will in this camp . 5:30 am this morning , Yu Xia Zhao and his friends from the mountain starting at 5 pm today, is expected to arrive in Changsha Orange Island landing. Article, photos / press Zhihong