Son of Town Hall was a junk raft

Junk raft

A junk raft is a type of home-built watercraft made of plastic bottles or other recycled materials constructed by and for three different sorts of audiences: artists and community-minded groups organizing recreational flotillas; environmentally concerned individuals seeking to draw attention to the...

 which made a Transatlantic crossing in 1998, built by Poppa Neutrino.

Writer Alec Wilkinson

Alec Wilkinson

Alec Wilkinson is a writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American "literary journalists... of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee." He is the author of nine books: "Midnights," , "Moonshine,"...

gave a vivid description of Son of Town Hall in his book The Happiest Man in the World, saying "The raft looked like a specter, a ghost ship, as if made from rags and rope and lumber, a vessel from the end of the world, or something medieval, a flagship of nothingness, the Armada of the Kingdom of Oblivion."

External links

• Our far-flung correspondents: The Crossing, New Yorker, June 27, 2005
• Sail of the Century, New York Daily News, Nov. 28, 1998
• Adventurer with a Maverick Streak, SF Gate, March 27, 2007
• NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT TRIBECA: Lift anchor, Hudson Park Orders Houseboat, New York Times, Oct. 3, 1999
• Son of Town Hall, Floating Neutrinos Website