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balsa raft

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Noun1.balsa raft - a light raft made of balsabalsa raft - a light raft made of balsa          
raft - a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers


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com SEAWORTHY: ADRIFT WITH WILLIAM WILLIS IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF RAFTING tells of a sixty-year-old who set out across the pacific Ocean on a homemade balsa raft with only a parrot and cat for company--in the heart of typhoon season.
Exhibited as part of the group show "Neobarroco" in Sao Paulo along with works by Camila Sposati and Friederike Feldmann, the most recent large-scale sculpture by the Portuguese artist Joao Pedro Vale, Foi bonita a festa, pa (The Party Was Beautiful, Yes), 2006, was constructed from a jangada, a balsa raft from the northeast of Brazil.
Experts scoffed at Heyerdahl when he set off to cross the Pacific aboard a balsa raft in 1947, saying it would get water logged and sink within days.
 
 
 
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