Afghan Migrant Tried To Sail To England In a Make-shift Plank Raft: Didn't Go As Planned

One question on the mind of everyone is how this man even got his plank-boat to start sailing? He should be very thankful he made it out alive.
This young Afghan migrant Asif Hussainkhil started his journey with high hopes of crossing the Channel on a raft made of a few nailed together bits of plank, with a bed sheet held by tent poles for a sail but his desperate attempt almost ended in disaster as his makeshift craft was blown into the path of a P&O passenger ferry near Calais. Fortunately the crew of the Spirit of Britain spotted the 23-year-old migrant from Aghanistan as he tried to make the 21-mile Channel crossing and sounded the alarm for help and he was duly rescued.
Rescuers said he was lucky not to have capsized and been killed, and had “zero per cent chance of making it to Britain” on the flimsy craft.
Mr Hussainkhil, from Kabul, had spent three weeks building the vessel behind sand dunes, constructing a mast from two crutches spliced together. He had not included a rudder on the raft.

He had no compass or food when he was saved and was dressed in a thin windcheater and rainproof trousers.
The perilous crossing attempt was made amid reports of increasing desperation among migrants trying to get illegally from France to Britain.
Mr Hussainkhil said he had been in Calais for a month and a half, but left Afghanistan in 2000 when the Taliban were in power and he feared for his life. To reach Calais, he went through Iran, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, and Switzerland. “England is my last stop,” he said. “I was sitting in the tent, thinking how can I get to England. Ever since I was a child, I have liked England. It’s a strong, powerful country. I want to join my uncle and cousins there. It was so hard here, so I thought I’ll make a boat and try and get there myself. I have no money, so I just used stuff around me at the camp.”