This same group of ambitious dreamers also built the Heraclitus, a hundred-ton ship crafted with chicken wire and cement on a squatted piece of waterfront in Oakland, California.

We had built it, and in theory it would float, but we didn't know what was gonna happen.

I sent an email to the dusty website of the Heraclitus asking if they'd suffer my questions, assuming they might reply months later from Madagascar or Iceland, but their response arrived the following day.

Hello, Gray.

This is Christine.

Um, thanks for contacting us.

The Heraclitus is currently dry docked in Roses, a small town in Northeast Spain.