Whale shaped boat
Thankfully, this isn t another beached whale on the British coastline. This is a rather unusual boat shaped like a whale and named Moby, of all things, after its namesake novel by Herman Melville. Former SAS soldier Tom McClean has spent a mammoth 100, 000 pounds and 2 decades building the 65foot boat (20 metres) in preparation for a 3, 500 mile (5, 600 kilometres) voyage across the Atlantic. The big question is why Maybe why not I would say. I m the first man to have rowed the North Atlantic alone and I ve sailed it and Ive crossed it in a bottleboat. You can go in many shapes. I thought, well why not a whale I want to clean up the planet and get the environmental companies to be involved with me well, here we are, Moby The boat with the big environmental message will sail down from Loch Nevis in Scotland to London and then New York in stages next year. And its guaranteed to be a whale of a time for the retired serviceman. Im 73 and I feel good. You could say I m mad, but I m happy with th
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