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“DeVere Baker, a Mormon who sought to establish the authenticity of his church’s views on the first peoples to visit American shores by making a series of daring raft trips over a 30-year period”

“Baker was best known for his sea adventures on a series of rafts he named Lehi. From 1952 to 1979, he sailed–sometimes successfully, sometimes not–in an attempt to show that the Book of Mormon is correct and that members of some of the Lost Tribes of Israel had crossed the sea to North America.

Unlike primitive rafts, Baker’s were equipped with electronic navigation gear and could be propelled by outboard motors.

On Lehi IV in 1958, he managed to successfully drift to Hawaii from California to prove that crossing oceans by raft was an ancient probability. Lehi V had been built for what was to have been a six-year around-the-world trip in 1963, but it was damaged by rough seas.”