chapter four

Chapter four opens with some satire. Thor was watching the boat while the others were out running errands and the tugboat came to carry the Kon Tiki out to sea. Thor could not speak spanish so the tugboat crew went ahead and started to tug the boat away without any of the crew on it! The boat takes them 50 miles off of the coast then sends them on their way. The crew sets up a schedule where two men steer while the others rest and just keep going through that cycle. The high seas caused some problems but the men managed to keep the ship in tact. The crew was worried that the balsa logs were absorbing too much water and eventually the raft would be under water.