What was a typical day like on a boat made of plastic bottles?
Jo Royle: We run a 24-hour day on board, so every three hours, you are on watch working the boat. The three hours you are off is spent getting the rest you need, washing, writing articles, reading, or maybe even wasting time. But this is all only if you were lucky. On average every three days, we had a problem, such as a sail blowing out, which would prevent some of us from sleeping for that day. Then you spend the following days on catch-up. No day is ever the same at sea; you are simply responding to Mother Nature’s forces as fast as you can. This is why the jobs addictive and I keep going back. You will never master the ocean; she will always surprise you with a new challenge. But it makes you feel so alive! The Inside Source: You were on the Plastiki for nearly five straight months, with not a lot of space to hoard too much stuff. What was something you had with you that you couldn’t have lived without? Jo Royle: A pressure cooker, which we cooked nearly every dinner in. In fact, w
