Siberians without the experience of sailing expeditions are reduced by the Pacific Ocean

The famous Novosibirsk traveler Anatoly Kulik and four residents of Akademgorodok without the experience of ocean expeditions will cross the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Easter Island on a sailing catamaran, designed by the wader itself. Siberians will pass more than 2000 miles, spending almost a month on an open deck.

A team of Siberian travelers arrived in Limu that to start the first stage of the transition through the Pacific Ocean on the collapsible catamaran "Tion" created

With a wader leading the expedition

. At this stage, more than 2000 miles (about 3.7 thousand km) from Peru to Easter Island will be passed. In addition to Kulik, the ship includes four employees

high -tech company "Tion"

, never before sail and have not been in the open ocean.

When asked why the team is going on this trip, the head of the expedition replied that those who went to the ocean do not ask such questions. “I'll compare the ocean with delicious food for housewives. I ate - I was saturated, but I still want to, but if hungry - but my favorite dish is it - then again I want to get enough of it! - Bits the words of the kulik site

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. - But I am also the designer of these same collapsible sailboats and for me every new trip is also one step forward in improving this class of ships. In the new ship, I took into account everything that Ocean taught me before - I think that this is the most reliable of all the courts I built - but only the ocean does not know about it - and for him it will be a new toy. ”

During the trip, the team will spend several weeks on a small deck about 10 square meters. m. half a meter from the surface of the water. The founder of Tion, physicist Dmitry Trubitsyn, said that “extremely glad” that Kulik agreed to lead their expedition. “For me, this is the fulfillment of a children's dream,” admitted the co -owner of the company and participant of the expedition Anton Zhuchkov. - I dreamed with a child by sea and ships. I painted them, cut them out of paper, oak and wood bark, collected from the designer. ”

The crew waits for the entrance to the ocean from the Peruvian port of the Caliao, which is appointed on February 10. The travelers will come to Easter Island with a good wind and good weather on March 5. On March 18, the Siberians will fly home, and the catamaran will remain on the island until 2016. “We fly to Easter and continue our swimming. On Tahiti, and from there to the Far East. We want to return the catamaran to Russia by our own way. And then we’ll drive to the Obskoye and we will ride there ” -

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"KP" Dmitry Trubitsyn (spelling preserved).