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Thanks for sharing your experience.   I am one of those people who thinks even a miserable adventure is better than no adventure at all.  

Well, I am using the laymen's definition of plants, not the scientific term, if that is what you mean.  Anything other than an animal.  Algae would be included because they use photosynthesis.  Fungi would not, because they obtain nutrients from dead organic matter which originally was derived...

That link doesn't seem to be working.  Keeps taking me to the main page.  

You might find this interesting.   https://www.inbar.int/bamboo-to-combat-desertification-and-drought/

I definitely think bamboo is the best direction to go as well.  It grows amazingly fast and can absorb huge amounts of carbon.  If we planted the 2 billion hectares of forests we have cut down with bamboo, we could quickly reverse the rising CO2 levels.   However, I also know that there are...

All calories we consume come from plants.  Even if you eat meat (which you shouldn't if you are concerned about carbon foot print) those calories originally came from plants.  100% of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, come from plants.   

Yup.  Your point?  

Even if we ignore that fact that processing and transporting materials is becoming more electric and able to use sustainable energy sources, the amount of carbon produced from traditional sources is a mere fraction of that stored in the woody materials.   A semi hauling 24 tons of wood products...

Carbon-free meaning use, not manufacture.  However, you could have a carbon-free manufactured boat, or even a negative carbon boat if you used enough wood products in its construction. 

This is an interesting material.  I don't know if it would work with bio based epoxies or not.   https://www.isomatex.com/categorie/our-products.html

What the hell is with all the gate keeping?  This is ridiculous.  I thought aviation was bad.  

This seems oddly specific?  

Why is that?  

I wanted to see what everyone's thoughts are on the solar powered yachts that have come out.  Silent and Serenity seem to be the most well known commercial products, but the one that really intrigues me is the Energy Observer.  http://energy-observer.org  I hope the technology comes down in...

Any opinions on a 47 foot Crowther?  https://www.multihullcompany.com/boat-details/?catid=7391228 Seems to check a lot of boxes for me, and I really like the layout.  This one is of concern, because it looks like they found an amateur to do all the electrical work and then got them drunk...

Is there a tranny to run both props on a catamaran when on one engine, or do you just correct the crab with rudder?   I have been looking at boom furlers which seems like it would make solo sailing much easier and safer.   Don't mind the cold, but I could see how icebergs could be a problem...

I never even had a small one.   :o

That is "negative profit" work. ;)

Pilot here.  Actually just retired from Aviation.  Not intentionally.  The salaries keep getting worse and prices of everything keep going up, so I decided to bow out and get into something more lucrative like nonprofit work. ;)

Wow, I could buy a sea plane and fly around the world a dozens times for less than that.