Tara Tari is the name of a 9 meter boat from Bangladesh who has been traveling for 186 days and 9000 miles to France. Since nothing new here. The novelty and the reason is interest in building Tara Tari: it was built on the banks of the Brahmaputra by a young engineer, in collaboration with a non-governmental organization that works with the fishermen (Friendship) and a French study design VPLP based on the design of fishing boats in the coastal Bay of Bengal.
The boat is wood or fiberglass traditional or based on the use of Kevlar fibers or someone else now fashionable in Europe (or in Italy). E 'rather than constructed by adding a variable amount of jute fiber (the bags of potatoes - http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juta) with glass fiber, so as to increase the use of a local resource Bangladesh: Percentage of jute in the hull is 25%, 45% in bulkheads and structural beams supporting the bridge deck and 65%.
are also locally sourced most of the facilities and equipment: from the engine (made in China and cost less than $ 100) the hatches and steel plates used to build two mobile lateral drifts (the result of the recovery made in the scrap yards of the Bay of Bengal).
The idea on which the company is to demonstrate that in areas where deforestation is no longer able to build traditional wooden boats of good quality (in the case of the Bay of Bengal), you can reduce the 'use of glass fiber imported using local materials. Moreover, these materials, unlike the glass fiber can be biodegradable and recyclable, and - in view of the use of organic resins instead of the traditional - may result in a significant reduction of the environmental and economic consequences of the construction of boats. The future of the company is a researcher working on this hypothesis and the search for sustainable solutions to issues related to global warming in Bangladesh.
The use of fibers other than glass fiber is not entirely new: always in France for some time, some works on linen fiber and trade in small boats are made of this fiber (http://www .plasmor.fr/fr/bateaux-ecolos/ArticleOuestFranceBateaux/214.html). In Italy there seems no trace of this research program.
Two videos on the experience of Tara Tari can be seen on http://www.voilesetvoiliers.com/grande-croisiere/video/3459/taratri-video-voile-toile-jute, Corentin - the young protagonist of this adventure - but has kept a blog, through which you can get more information. The address is http://tara-tari.blogspot.com
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