125: Far From Home pt.2: Pleasure Cruise

Would you trust love one more time... if you had to do it on a boat? Literally? This week we follow one man, Santiago Genovés, as he seeks to answer a few too many questions the easiest way he knows how. Forcing a dozen strangers to spend three months on a raft at sea. What happens when people drift far from home and into the arms of someone else? This week, The Acali "Sex Raft", on Well, I Laughed!

Chapters

00:00:00 Catch-Up

00:21:23 Pleasure Cruise

00:28:46 Ripe for Violence

00:37:24 The Raft

00:43:16 Social Controls

00:54:59 Meet Your Characters

01:03:09 The SOP

01:06:55 Off to Sea

01:27:23 One Month

01:34:50 Weeks 5-6

01:38:55 Halfway

01:48:54 Rudder Breaks

01:53:53 Shark Week

01:59:18 A Storm? In the Caribbean? Groundbreaking.

02:03:41 Re-Mutiny

02:11:52 Arrival

02:14:36 Was it a Success?

Photos Referenced

Further Reading

• The Raft Documentary by Marcus Lindeen (Available for purchase on Roku, YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, and Google Play Movies)

• The Acali Experiment: Five Men and Six Women on a Raft Across the Atlantic for 101 Days by Genovés Santiago via Internet Archives

  • Note: Santiago uses pseudonyms for the crew members. José Maria = Marcos, Servane - Sofia, Charles = Antonio, Rachida = Aisha, Mary = Ana, Fé = Esperanza, Maria = Ingrid, Edna = Teresa, Bernardo = Emiliano, Eisuke = Komico

• Point to Point: The meanderings and musings of my life by Mary Ellen Gidley

Photos Referenced

The Raft Documentary by Marcus Lindeen - via Amazon Video

The Acali Experiment: Five Men and Six Women on a Raft Across the Atlantic for 101 Days by Genovés Santiago via Internet Archives

Mutiny on the Sex Raft: how a 70s science project descended into violent chaos - The Guardian

"The Raft" Chronicles an Extreme Experiment with Human Nature - The New Yorker

Before Love Island, there was the Sex Raft... and I'm a survivor - The Sunday Telegraph via Press Reader

The Acali Experiment - The Compendium Podcast

490 - The Acali, AKA The Sex Raft - Do Go On Podcast via Spotify

Acali - Wikipedia

Acali Experiment: Where Are They Now? - Cinemaholic

Thor Heyerdahl: Boats Ra and Ra II - Wikipedia

Thor Heyedahl: The RA Expeditions (1969-70) - Prairie View A&M University