Once in Sydney, the Plastiki will be harbored at the Australian National Maritime Museum.
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Since departing San Francisco in mid-March, the Plastiki has traveled nearly 7, 000 nautical miles.
The Plastiki's arrival in Sydney will not, however, be the 60-foot catamaran's first time to reach Australian soil.
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CNN.com will be keeping close track of the entire voyage, offering insights each week on the Plastiki's progress.
Particularly, the Plastiki is hoping to raise awareness about single-use consumer products that are filling landfills and the sea.
CNN: Plastic bottle boat reaches Australia after stormy seas
The Plastiki has faced several challenges since departing from San Francisco in March.
CNN: Plastic bottle boat reaches Australia after stormy seas
He explained his idea of the Plastiki Expedition and I was immediately captivated.
Two of Heyerdahl's grandchildren, Olav Heyerdahl and Josian Heyerdahl, will be aboard during various legs of the Plastiki voyage.
Don't forget to check back each week to see how Plastiki is progressing.
Plastiki has been an excellent focal point for the world's audience to learn more about the ocean and its plights.
"Even if Plastiki gets damaged or does not make it, the message will still be there, " de Rothschild told CNN.
Weather allowing, the Plastiki will leave New Caledonia by this Friday to begin their home stretch journey to Australia's eastern coast.
Now in 2010, David de Rothschild has built an entire boat out of plastic bottles and is sailing the Plastiki across the Pacific.
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But Plastiki's skipper, British sailor Jo Royle says she is confident the team will be able to navigate their way to their final destination.
"I've always been apprehensive of the Tasman Sea and this was my own worst nightmare come to fruition, " said Plastiki's expedition leader, David de Rothschild.
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In a recent Skype interview with David de Rothschild, the brains behind the Plastiki project, we challenged the world to find their personal Plastiki, their personal Mission Blue.
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The Plastiki's name is wordplay off the "Kon-Tiki, " a balsa raft made famous by Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, who in 1947 sailed the vessel from Peru to the Polynesian islands.
After waiting out the bad weather, the Plastiki took off from its unexpected first port-of-call in Australia early Friday morning with hopes to reach Sydney in the next two days.
CNN: Plastic bottle boat reaches Australia after stormy seas
As the Plastiki sails through an ocean of trash we should all be ashamed of what we have done to this planet and what we have condemned our children to live with.
For the duration of the Plastiki expedition I urge you to remember your re-useable water bottle, this alone will help to reduce the 200 billion liters of bottled water consumed each year.
Plastiki also is supplied with a nutritional guide for the crew advising them on what to eat and how to build meals that support the periods of high-level activity during the voyage.
The difference is that the Plastiki is looking to inspire something larger -- a sea of change, in how we view waste and how we integrate it back into the web of life.
The Plastiki's journey will spotlight current environmental issues.
En route to Australia, Plastiki will sail through the infamous North Pacific Gyre, now home to "The Great Garbage Patch, " named due to the high levels of waste that have been drawn there by ocean currents.
Made of approximately 12, 500 reclaimed plastic bottles and engineered using the most sustainable methods possible, the Plastiki is meant to be used as a platform upon which solutions to the myriad of environmental problems can be found.
CNN: Plastic bottle boat reaches Australia after stormy seas
The inspiring thing about building the Plastiki in San Francisco, it that the city has banned the use of Styrofoam, is done with the plastic bag, and has banned the use of bottled water in government-run buildings.
The brief for the Plastiki Expedition was to design a boat made out of plastic bottles that could be sailed across the Pacific Ocean that would draw attention to the problems facing the oceans as well as the kind of solutions that we need to implement.
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