He and David Davlianidze, formerly of Clark's Marine, are building a bottle boat to sail from New York to Scotland. That's right, a bottle boat. And like Orca — Mr. Finlay's 4-man rowing vessel he raced from the Canary Islands to the Barbados in 2007 — the bottle is being built in a garage at Hap Bowditch's complex on Midway Road, under the auspices of Mr. Davlianidze's business, Shelter Island Boats.
They hope to have the 38-foot bottle (with sail, keel and cabin) constructed by April and attempt a 3,000 mile ocean crossing in 40 days come June. For more information, see their website, www.atlanticbottle.com.