Sailboat hitchhiking has traditionally been undertaken by experienced sailors looking to travel different routes, but now, more people are turning to it as an ecofriendly way to travel
Greta Thunberg. Photo: BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images Currently, Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is on her second transatlantic sailing trip of the year. Back in August, the 16-year-old sailed for two weeks from Plymouth, U.K., to New York City to attend U.N. climate talks, and now, three months later, she’s returning home.
Daniel Krause, a “cruiser” who helps to run the Sailboat Hitchhikers and Crew Connection Facebook group, told The Guardian that since Thunberg’s trip, the group’s size had gone from 7,000 to nearly 21,000 members. “In the past couple of weeks it has skyrocketed,” he said. “Many people don’t understand about the movement of a boat on the ocean which can overwhelm people with seasickness and make them feel trapped because it’s a very small space and you could be out there for days if not weeks — and once you’re out, it’s almost always too late to turn back,” Krause says.
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