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In between Santa Clarita and Bakersfield there are some small mountain towns you can exit the interstate and go explore. After following one of those backroads for about an hour I found some epic cliffs that were the quietest place I’ve ever been. No sound at all. It was deafening.
To be fair, I have spent a lot of time driving around there and most of the land and roads are private (pisses me off), so the options to pick from were limited, but I wanted to double check that you weren't talking about some other road that I haven't found yet.
It is one of my favorite hidden gems of California! I love heading there in late winter and early spring because the hills are sooooo freaking green and the elevation change is 6000 ft straight down to sea level on the valley floor, all of the mountain completely visible
Well he either sunk (most likely) and died, or he was marooned on some small island. And from there he either was so marooned that he lived out Cast Away (which is possible) or he could not sustain himself and died.
Sucks for sure, and odds are he just sunk, but I'm sure to your friend it's a nice thought to think that their father could still be alive out there and just super fucking lost.
Hell my dad died and I saw his dead body and I still have dreams / fleeting thoughts where it was all just a misunderstanding and I'll see him again tomorrow.
It must be painful not getting any closure. At what point did you guys decided it was probably fair to think the worst. Did you then still conduct a service?
its no surprise theres about a 1000 things that can happen to a boat in the ocean to make it sink, from something as dumb as the bilge pump failing, to hitting an object like the hundreds of containers that fall off ships every year, and float at the surface for a time. or a whale, or a ship in the night.
Do they know roughly where he disappeared? Condolences to your friends. It’s just wild to me that there’s this like, universal and timeless siren song sung by the ocean, and that people still answer it.
One day, you're going to be sitting in a cafe in Italy, enjoying your espresso when you'll spot him sitting with his new wife across the square.
You'll make eye contact for just a moment. Just long enough to give you a smile and a wink.
Are there any articles in local papers or online that you know of?
As a sailor myself, I hope the family takes comfort in knowing that sailors return to the sea at some point. It's where we belong the most and where many of us choose to rest.
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/mayday-fathers-disappearance-pirates/
Edit: damn I never heard about his distress calls :/
That is a bizarre story. It would be so frustrating trying to communicate with someone who won’t really explain what is happening… or can’t be relied on to accurately report on their situation.
He was pretty clearly hallucinating. I don't think it was pirates, he was giving enough personal info to believe it was really him but his messages read like he was slowly losing his mind.
Theory: He never fully fixed the watermaker, and started drinking brackish water without realizing it. He's definitely not well. He should've relied purely on the backup water and motored to Hiva Oa.
(Edit: Ignore that last suggestion. According to coordinates he [managed to send to the Coast Guard](https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/mayday-fathers-disappearance-pirates/) before the end, he was still 2000km from Hiva Oa. What a nightmare.)
I used to say this a lot but as I've gotten older. I realized the promise of technology (at least in the US) "reducing the work week and inevitably creating more free time" was and is not going to happen bc of the wealthy elites and money owning our politics/work culture (while housing and retirement are questionable now). It makes sense to live your best life sooner than later so I don't look down on nomad life styles living off a car battery and part time jobs. The fucking wealthy people cosplaying as poors is hilarious though.
There was that one reporter who interviewed elderly people on their death bed and most people regretted working too much so I get that people opt out of the grind from time to time.
You're exactly right. Once robots can do our jobs they'll still have us come in to work just to press a button every minute before they give us money for doing nothing
There will likely be a phase in there where the lucky ones will be coming into work to press a button.
Everyone else will be struggling to survive.
Then maybe once the rich realize that they actually need some amount of functional society to support their ability to enjoy their largesse, then maybe they'll pitty hire more button pushers.
Without underestimating the rapidity with which technology evolves, we’re still extremely far away from any kind of robotic or AI tech replacing simple human labor. It’s super cheap to outsource manufacturing to south east Asia and avoid any kind of labor laws or regulations. Fixing a robotic arm costs a lot more than the amount it costs to settle with a poor family in Africa after their 6 year old loses a hand in a company mine.
The upper 1% need us to continue to consume and spend and borrow. That’s why corps are buying so many single family homes, they want us renting forever. If you’re lucky enough to get an annual raise it’s almost certainly going to be canceled out by the annual rent increase. Own nothing, spend everything.
I also heard a lot of people look forward to their retirement, only to not be able to do all the things they once planned because of health issues or just being too old for it now. They can still do it, but it‘s just not the same.
In my 20s, I quit my job, bought a rooftop tent for my Jeep, and drove to Alaska and back. It was something like 50 days and a bit over 10,000 miles. This was blowing my entire life's savings, up to that point.
I'd run into a lot of retired couples doing RV trips along the way, since there are only *so* many campgrounds to stop at in rural Alaska or Yukon. I was shocked that, if we got to chatting, literally *every single one* had exactly the same response to "I blew my life savings to do this."
> "Good for you. We're too old now to enjoy a lot of the things you'll be able to do on this trip."
Not a single 'tsk, tsk.' Not a single '... are you sure?' Literally everyone I met expressed the same sentiment you did - you look forward to your retirement, but age eventually does put many things out of reach.
Does that mean you should always live penniless to pursue your dreams? No. Frankly, I don't take enough vacations *at all*, and haven't taken my own style time off in more than four years.
But ask me the best decision I ever made, and it's easy to answer.
That sounds great tbh, and it‘s really telling that the retirees supported you, they know. I agree, there was a story somewhere here on reddit about a guy who dropped dead in his early 30s due to grind culture. He was doing fine, but needed to have all these side gigs running on the side, rise and grind etc… the stress killed him and he never got to enjoy any of it. :/
This reality dawned on me earlier this year at 31. I'm not gonna be able to do stuff when I am older. I'd rather work until I die than miss out on life while I am still physically healthy.
Retirement is backwards. It should happen when you are between 22 and 35, THEN you work until you die.
Not enough people talk about economy in terms of time. Getting new tech just means that the bar for what is normal to spend on consumer products is raised. There will be new luxury goods and services to keep us occupied and we need to make money to buy all the new stuff.
Time is the only non renewable resource. If we want more of it for ourself we need to stop spending so much money. Living a lot off a litle is a good investment. Now, I'm not managing it very well myself, but it's a good goal to have. Helping eachother reach that goal is good too. It requires building relationships and tending to aspects of life that is good for the human psyche.
Take care of yourself, and be kind towards others.
Edit: grammar
Yep was homeless for five years and I probably seen more of America that about 90% of people who live here the only state I'm missing is Hawaii,could never have done it if I was employed some of the best and worst times of my life but I was living free and got to experience things people rarely get to experience I've seen the northern lights in Alaska and camped under the stars of the grand canyon.
Beautiful and terrifying. An impressive endeavor to take on alone. You’re either lost at sea or make it to the other side forever changed. Either way the person that sets off ain’t coming back.
Adding to this sentiment, a great book that captures this is The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier. I would describe it as a quasi-journal documenting one of his solo circumnavigations of the globe by sail. Highly recommended, he’s a great writer.
Former sailor here. It does. It’s absolutely unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before on land and I recommend to everyone that they should try to see it at least once in their lifetime.
When I was fresh out of college I wanted to be a deckhand on superyachts. I moved to Ft Lauderdale to learn to be a yachtie.
The only time I got to really go to sea was to help an old Captain and his wife deliver a sailboat from Ft Lauderdale to Rhode Island. We sailed up the coast a couple hundred miles out.
Someone had to be on watch 24/7 so every third night I stayed up from midnight to 6AM standing watch. One of those nights the wind died and the ocean turned to glass. Completely flat, no movement except the boat cutting through the water. It was a completely clear night and you could see more stars than you’d ever imagined. The water got so still it began reflecting the starlight. At the same time the water the boat disturbed was flashing with bioluminescent light.
It looked like we were flying through space. I laid there for hours glancing at the radar and seeing no other boats for a dozen miles or more and just taking it all in.
At one point the captains wife came up and told me this was one of her favorite things to see sailing and knew I must’ve had a great watch taking it in.
As the sun rose I realized there was a pod of dolphins swimming with the front of the boat. I laid down and hung my hand off the edge of the boat trying to pet one as they jumped but couldn’t quite reach
He posted about it. He had a Starlink and solar panels on his boat BUT the Starlink got lost at sea from a wave. He ended up making it all the way and now he is posting the videos he took that he couldn't upload because he lost the Starlink disk.
People got so worried that he died at one point, someone reached out to his sister, and he was able to talk to her with his emergency cellphone for a bit, told her what happened, and she relayed it to his audience.
People keep saying he is fake, but you can watch his entire journey on TikTok.
If he's on a normal sailboat he has a diesel in it, solar panels and considering he's attempting one of the hardest crossings known to mankind (and it looks like he's near Point Nemo) he likely has satellite internet on board.
People are mistaking this guy for some rookie moron who went out crossing the pacific on a 14ft dinghy.
Dude must be getting some incredible starry night views since there can’t possibly be any light pollution where he is. That’s would I would really love to see
Open ocean is the most amazing star gazing I’ve ever seen. It’s fairly rare to have a cloudless night at sea, but when it does happen, you can see the entire Milky Way like a light haze across the sky. It’s really spectacular. That and St. Elmo’s Fire are two of my favorite experiences I’ve had at sea.
On his channel he details exactly what foodstuffs he brings. He made a point about needing easy to store, calorie dense food which turned out to be pasta. Just... like 200 bags of pasta, along with fresh veggies and fruits for the first few weeks and canned stuff for later.
I remember back in 2013 some guy decided to drive the perimeter of Africa in his Jeep. Everyone (me included) told him that several parts of his planned route were conflict zones but he said he knew and had made arrangements and felt safe. We all decided that he was a fool.
Fast forward 2 years (with constant updates) and he actually does it. He's got videos of himself with armed rebel soldiers, armed government soldiers, bewildered but friendly locals, and more. I had had to eat some crow and admit that just because **I** didn't have the right skills or plan to attempt something doesn't mean that someone else doesn't.
I just looked up his username: u/grecy and he's in this thread right now! Small world!
For what it's worth, I bumped into dozens of people doing the same thing as me. Many, many people are doing it right now and loving it.
Good friends of mine did the same trip as me - 2 years, right around the perimeter. They ran out of money (like me), so went back to Australia and back to work. COVID happened and all that. They saved, they planned.
And you know what they did recently? They shipped their vehicle back to Africa, and are doing another 2 years exploring. They're loving it.
Here's a video I did on their vehicle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULbw20I5Mto
Think about that for a second. Completely sane, normal people living ordinary lives in Australia loved their time around Africa so much they decided to do it all over again.
Do you think they felt safe the first time? Do you think it was anywhere near as dangerous as Reddit thinks?
That tells you everything you need to know.
Yeah but with the satellite internet available on a boat out in the pacific you’re paying dollars per Megabyte. Uploading even a 60 second HD video like that would not only take hours but could easily cost several hundred bucks to do. He more than likely completed the crossing and uploaded once he had WiFi.
Edit: apparently he has starlink
https://www.starlink.com/us/business/maritime
You’re gonna pay about 2 to 3000 for the initial system and $250 a month and up depending on whether you want Internet while underway .
There are some workarounds where you can get away with using Starling RV, but you run into a few issues .
The ISP that uses many many satellites in low earth orbit to provide internet access and are launched by SpaceX. The internet provided by those fixed dishes hanging off the side of someone’s house target satellites in geo-synchronous orbit, which means the satellites are 17,000 miles away. Because of that the signal is fairly weak and the latency, or delay, is astronomical. Starlink satellites orbit the earth at around 500 miles high, vastly reducing that problem.
Blue water capable boats are not as expensive as you might think. If you’re handy and ok with living without a lot of creature comforts you can sail for much less than the cost of a monthly car note. Edit: some examples would be Moxie Marlinspike, he and a couple friends bought a run down boat for $1200 in Florida. Spent a summer camping in parks while fixing it up, then spent two years sailing around the Caribbean and up the east coast with basically no money. This guy has an old wooden boat that doesn’t even have a fridge, he makes his money doing photography and odd jobs. https://youtu.be/syJXrbWU1Aw?si=aIlRYKAicmrOrNFd
I wasn’t implying he has no money, I was saying the cost of uploading a file like that using traditional satellite internet would be prohibitively expensive. On the flip side you don’t need to be rich by any stretch of the imagination to own a blue water capable boat.
Yes, the boat costs around 25-30k.
Marina berth is around 2k/yr
Depending on where you live, getting it in and out of the water is around 300$ a pop, 400 for mast removal and install.
Registration and insurance are another few hundred a month.
Food costs.
Tariffs.
Ask me how I know.
Bro might not be rich, but he's definitely got some money kicking around.
ETA - Also the term Boat is not a noun, it's an acronym. Break Out Another Thousand. Maintenance costs.
A few hundred a month for insurance? Mine is just over $500 a year, and my boat cost less than $20k. My first boat cost $1200 including a trailer, granted it wasn’t blue water capable. And if you’re out actually cruising then you don’t need to pay a slip fee to a marina.
Again, I wasn’t trying to imply he doesn’t have money. Cruising is not a fantasy for everyone but the rich either.
I have been actively following this guy since he left - he is indeed using Starlink and it actually broke down on him the other week. Really interesting journey
Out in the middle of nowhere they work great apparently because those satellites will have low usage. If too many people in the same area use it, it slows down.
A lil learnin for everyone cause it's just superneat.
The Doldrums are a notorious sailing/flight trap, to the extent most people just flat out avoid the area. You can end up stranded there for up to weeks because of the dead winds and still waters.
He's more or less completely safe for the most part though, people know where he is if he goes dark or runs low on fresh water sources. If he goes dark on social media for too long, a rescue is totally not out of the question because people know he's there.
i would personally just be terrified of some sea monster (shark, whale, squid, who the fuck knows) just seeing this bite sized thing and blasting you on that paddleboard.
Totally a rational fear but the biggest concern he's got goin for him is dehydration or an unfortunate altercation with a jellyfish.
Unless ya know.... World Snake.
That's probably SUPER likely.
The guy doesn't seem like being stuck was super crazy to him, seems more like he probably went out to sea expecting to end up here for a little bit and is just kicking back havin a good time.
Think of the ocean as a bathtub. Life gathers near the sides and along the bottom. There's not much going on in the middle because there's nothing to eat.
I just got tingles thinking of all the things under him in those waters and him with no life jacket.
My lead ass sinks in pools. The downside of putting on muscle, you don't float like you used to and it takes so much energy to keep your head above water. I'd be fucking sleeping in my life jacket, because if I go overboard it'd be 20000 leagues under the sea for me without one.
I get needing exercise but maybe don’t go that far away from your sailboat??? I would go maybe a dozen yards out and do laps. Who am I kidding, I went kayaking for about an hour off the beach at La Jolla and had to take two Xanax just from getting a couple hundred yards off shore. It was absolutely worth doing and the sea cave was super cool but it strained my nerves to their limits.
If he's in the doldrums, I don't think there's going to be any sudden wind to carry the boat off anywhere. So as long as he has it in sight, he's fine aside from the insanity of what he's doing in the first place.
I was at La Jolla once, a couple friends got in the line up but it the surf was too big for me. 2 or 3 days later there was a viral pic of a 14' great white hanging out in the break with the surfers. I guess it's not dangerous as it saw 50 - 100 surfers, including wipeouts, and went for no one but...
Why does my brain immediately assume there would be a Poseidon sized rouge wave coming if I was in this situation? I would constantly be scanning the water, waiting.
And then it’s getting darker and darker and with each second passing the sailboat gets harder and harder too see - till during one frightening moment the sailboat is no longer visible and you are all alone in the dark void with no food, no water and you see a shadow approaching from the deep dark void.
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Woah, I never thought about the silence out there. No wind so no water movement. No bugs around to make noise, no leaves to be rustled…
In between Santa Clarita and Bakersfield there are some small mountain towns you can exit the interstate and go explore. After following one of those backroads for about an hour I found some epic cliffs that were the quietest place I’ve ever been. No sound at all. It was deafening.
Hudson Ranch Road?
Fuckkkkkk. That’s EXACTLY where it was. So impressive that you nailed the exact location immediately.
To be fair, I have spent a lot of time driving around there and most of the land and roads are private (pisses me off), so the options to pick from were limited, but I wanted to double check that you weren't talking about some other road that I haven't found yet. It is one of my favorite hidden gems of California! I love heading there in late winter and early spring because the hills are sooooo freaking green and the elevation change is 6000 ft straight down to sea level on the valley floor, all of the mountain completely visible
My friend’s dad died trying to sail the globe solo. It’s no joke.
Did he just disappear?
Yes!
Did they find his boat but he wasn't on it? Do they know what happened?
They found out fucking nothing. No boat. Nothing. No contact. He was a beloved man with a loving family. Never heard from again.
Only takes one rogue wave to sink a ship. It’s so dangerous they invented insurance lol
Or he just sailed to Thailand to retire
is this the equivalent of 'our dog went off to a farm"
Dad left for a pack of cigs and never came back
I'm going to get some cigs from Thailand, brb.
No it’s leave your family for cheap living and less stress
Well he either sunk (most likely) and died, or he was marooned on some small island. And from there he either was so marooned that he lived out Cast Away (which is possible) or he could not sustain himself and died. Sucks for sure, and odds are he just sunk, but I'm sure to your friend it's a nice thought to think that their father could still be alive out there and just super fucking lost. Hell my dad died and I saw his dead body and I still have dreams / fleeting thoughts where it was all just a misunderstanding and I'll see him again tomorrow.
Sorry to hear that dude. I also lost my dad recently. I’d like to think he is visiting you in your dreams.
I love when I dream about my dad. It’s like he visits and I get a little reminder of how cool he was. Sorry for your loss.
Wow I am sorry. How long ago was this
Thanks man it was maybe 10 years ago. Definitely a cautionary tale.
It must be painful not getting any closure. At what point did you guys decided it was probably fair to think the worst. Did you then still conduct a service?
So this was my friend’s dad as I said. They did hold a service about 3 months after no contact.
Interesting Title to go by,, carry on thin blue
My dad went out to get some milk and smokes and they never found his boat neither
My dad left us but we knew he was just unhappy and looking for something new. This is very different.
its no surprise theres about a 1000 things that can happen to a boat in the ocean to make it sink, from something as dumb as the bilge pump failing, to hitting an object like the hundreds of containers that fall off ships every year, and float at the surface for a time. or a whale, or a ship in the night.
Do they know roughly where he disappeared? Condolences to your friends. It’s just wild to me that there’s this like, universal and timeless siren song sung by the ocean, and that people still answer it.
One day, you're going to be sitting in a cafe in Italy, enjoying your espresso when you'll spot him sitting with his new wife across the square. You'll make eye contact for just a moment. Just long enough to give you a smile and a wink.
I’d kick his fucking ass.
It's too late. A bus passed and he's gone.
I'm excited for season 2 of whatever this is
Are there any articles in local papers or online that you know of? As a sailor myself, I hope the family takes comfort in knowing that sailors return to the sea at some point. It's where we belong the most and where many of us choose to rest.
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/mayday-fathers-disappearance-pirates/ Edit: damn I never heard about his distress calls :/
Thank you for sharing this incredible story!
That is a bizarre story. It would be so frustrating trying to communicate with someone who won’t really explain what is happening… or can’t be relied on to accurately report on their situation.
He was pretty clearly hallucinating. I don't think it was pirates, he was giving enough personal info to believe it was really him but his messages read like he was slowly losing his mind.
Theory: He never fully fixed the watermaker, and started drinking brackish water without realizing it. He's definitely not well. He should've relied purely on the backup water and motored to Hiva Oa. (Edit: Ignore that last suggestion. According to coordinates he [managed to send to the Coast Guard](https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/mayday-fathers-disappearance-pirates/) before the end, he was still 2000km from Hiva Oa. What a nightmare.)
This was a crazy read, how terrifying for the family.
Sounds like he was really out of his mind, maybe even before he left since he tried sneaking out to sea without even saying goodbye.
Think you, Thin Blue Penis, very heart breaking stuff.
Wow. RIP Richard ❤️
I knew a guy that died sailing on a lake 20 minutes from my house. It doesn’t take much water to kill you.
So true. One of my best friends died in a bathtub this year. Damn I really didn’t mean to get into all the people I have lost to water.
It's okay /u/ThinBluePenis. Sorry for your losses.
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My uncle drowned in a stand up shower
He's gonna paddle back to the sailboat right
Imagine if some wind picks up and that sailboat fucks off.
Or the sun goes down, he did say it was sunset, it's fucking DARK away from artificial light.
I hadn't even considered it. I cannot imagine sleeping out there with what's lurking beneath.
I think it also could be like nothing. Some of those deep open water regions are just empty of fish, sharks, etc.
the scale of the ocean itself is kinda terrifying. Not as terrifying as the sheer emptiness of space but still scary
yea, that is what I thought... I think i would at least use some very very strong fishing line lol
It's the call of the void
L’appel du vide!
Either that or he has another sailboat. He's definitely not staying on that paddle board
So he's sailing two sailboats around the world simultaneously?
Your unemployed friend on a Tuesday
I used to say this a lot but as I've gotten older. I realized the promise of technology (at least in the US) "reducing the work week and inevitably creating more free time" was and is not going to happen bc of the wealthy elites and money owning our politics/work culture (while housing and retirement are questionable now). It makes sense to live your best life sooner than later so I don't look down on nomad life styles living off a car battery and part time jobs. The fucking wealthy people cosplaying as poors is hilarious though. There was that one reporter who interviewed elderly people on their death bed and most people regretted working too much so I get that people opt out of the grind from time to time.
You're exactly right. Once robots can do our jobs they'll still have us come in to work just to press a button every minute before they give us money for doing nothing
This is a story about a man named Stanley..
Don't you dare take away my bucket.
What’s reference?
Stanley parable, it's a game, go in blind of you know nothing about it, best way to play it
Ok! To help me stay blind - is it a board game or a console game?
PC, recent remaster was released, on steam, or sail the seven seas if you are broke
It's entirely story based with a narrator. It's incredible even for non gamers.
There will likely be a phase in there where the lucky ones will be coming into work to press a button. Everyone else will be struggling to survive. Then maybe once the rich realize that they actually need some amount of functional society to support their ability to enjoy their largesse, then maybe they'll pitty hire more button pushers.
Without underestimating the rapidity with which technology evolves, we’re still extremely far away from any kind of robotic or AI tech replacing simple human labor. It’s super cheap to outsource manufacturing to south east Asia and avoid any kind of labor laws or regulations. Fixing a robotic arm costs a lot more than the amount it costs to settle with a poor family in Africa after their 6 year old loses a hand in a company mine. The upper 1% need us to continue to consume and spend and borrow. That’s why corps are buying so many single family homes, they want us renting forever. If you’re lucky enough to get an annual raise it’s almost certainly going to be canceled out by the annual rent increase. Own nothing, spend everything.
Good pitch for a dystopic "the Jetsons" reboot
I also heard a lot of people look forward to their retirement, only to not be able to do all the things they once planned because of health issues or just being too old for it now. They can still do it, but it‘s just not the same.
In my 20s, I quit my job, bought a rooftop tent for my Jeep, and drove to Alaska and back. It was something like 50 days and a bit over 10,000 miles. This was blowing my entire life's savings, up to that point. I'd run into a lot of retired couples doing RV trips along the way, since there are only *so* many campgrounds to stop at in rural Alaska or Yukon. I was shocked that, if we got to chatting, literally *every single one* had exactly the same response to "I blew my life savings to do this." > "Good for you. We're too old now to enjoy a lot of the things you'll be able to do on this trip." Not a single 'tsk, tsk.' Not a single '... are you sure?' Literally everyone I met expressed the same sentiment you did - you look forward to your retirement, but age eventually does put many things out of reach. Does that mean you should always live penniless to pursue your dreams? No. Frankly, I don't take enough vacations *at all*, and haven't taken my own style time off in more than four years. But ask me the best decision I ever made, and it's easy to answer.
Yep! I did the same at 30. Wound up traveling for a decade.
That sounds great tbh, and it‘s really telling that the retirees supported you, they know. I agree, there was a story somewhere here on reddit about a guy who dropped dead in his early 30s due to grind culture. He was doing fine, but needed to have all these side gigs running on the side, rise and grind etc… the stress killed him and he never got to enjoy any of it. :/
This reality dawned on me earlier this year at 31. I'm not gonna be able to do stuff when I am older. I'd rather work until I die than miss out on life while I am still physically healthy. Retirement is backwards. It should happen when you are between 22 and 35, THEN you work until you die.
Not enough people talk about economy in terms of time. Getting new tech just means that the bar for what is normal to spend on consumer products is raised. There will be new luxury goods and services to keep us occupied and we need to make money to buy all the new stuff. Time is the only non renewable resource. If we want more of it for ourself we need to stop spending so much money. Living a lot off a litle is a good investment. Now, I'm not managing it very well myself, but it's a good goal to have. Helping eachother reach that goal is good too. It requires building relationships and tending to aspects of life that is good for the human psyche. Take care of yourself, and be kind towards others. Edit: grammar
Yep was homeless for five years and I probably seen more of America that about 90% of people who live here the only state I'm missing is Hawaii,could never have done it if I was employed some of the best and worst times of my life but I was living free and got to experience things people rarely get to experience I've seen the northern lights in Alaska and camped under the stars of the grand canyon.
We should all strive to be a little more unemployed
Beautiful and terrifying. An impressive endeavor to take on alone. You’re either lost at sea or make it to the other side forever changed. Either way the person that sets off ain’t coming back.
The silence I would welcome. Being days/weeks/months away from land, that's what we call a fuck no.
That’s poetic
Adding to this sentiment, a great book that captures this is The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier. I would describe it as a quasi-journal documenting one of his solo circumnavigations of the globe by sail. Highly recommended, he’s a great writer.
Yeah at night the sky must also look amazing. personally I would go crazy being alone for so long. But maybe with a partner it would be fun.
Former sailor here. It does. It’s absolutely unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before on land and I recommend to everyone that they should try to see it at least once in their lifetime.
When I was fresh out of college I wanted to be a deckhand on superyachts. I moved to Ft Lauderdale to learn to be a yachtie. The only time I got to really go to sea was to help an old Captain and his wife deliver a sailboat from Ft Lauderdale to Rhode Island. We sailed up the coast a couple hundred miles out. Someone had to be on watch 24/7 so every third night I stayed up from midnight to 6AM standing watch. One of those nights the wind died and the ocean turned to glass. Completely flat, no movement except the boat cutting through the water. It was a completely clear night and you could see more stars than you’d ever imagined. The water got so still it began reflecting the starlight. At the same time the water the boat disturbed was flashing with bioluminescent light. It looked like we were flying through space. I laid there for hours glancing at the radar and seeing no other boats for a dozen miles or more and just taking it all in. At one point the captains wife came up and told me this was one of her favorite things to see sailing and knew I must’ve had a great watch taking it in. As the sun rose I realized there was a pod of dolphins swimming with the front of the boat. I laid down and hung my hand off the edge of the boat trying to pet one as they jumped but couldn’t quite reach
This is rad as fuck.
That’s a great way to look at it.
That’s poetic
He must have one he'll of a data plan to able to post a TikTok out there lol Edit: damn! 6k upvotes thanks everybody!
He posted about it. He had a Starlink and solar panels on his boat BUT the Starlink got lost at sea from a wave. He ended up making it all the way and now he is posting the videos he took that he couldn't upload because he lost the Starlink disk. People got so worried that he died at one point, someone reached out to his sister, and he was able to talk to her with his emergency cellphone for a bit, told her what happened, and she relayed it to his audience. People keep saying he is fake, but you can watch his entire journey on TikTok.
That's super interesting. Thank you for sharing. What's his name?
You can see it in the TikTok, sailing_songbird. He’s probably on other platforms too.
> He’s probably on other platforms too. Yeah, I'm sure he's on a paddleboat for example.
I read this while I was closing the app, I had to come back . Upvoted dude
On Insta it is Sailing_Songbird as well
So cool he was able to post this. This video could have easily been the first in a very sad story of someone not making it through their voyage.
And cell phone battery
If he's on a normal sailboat he has a diesel in it, solar panels and considering he's attempting one of the hardest crossings known to mankind (and it looks like he's near Point Nemo) he likely has satellite internet on board. People are mistaking this guy for some rookie moron who went out crossing the pacific on a 14ft dinghy.
Dude must be getting some incredible starry night views since there can’t possibly be any light pollution where he is. That’s would I would really love to see
Open ocean is the most amazing star gazing I’ve ever seen. It’s fairly rare to have a cloudless night at sea, but when it does happen, you can see the entire Milky Way like a light haze across the sky. It’s really spectacular. That and St. Elmo’s Fire are two of my favorite experiences I’ve had at sea.
Yeah that’s a great movie
It must be so quiet at times like this too. Eerily quiet with no boats, cars, planes making noise.
Went star gazing at the top of Mauna Kea on the big island last summer. It was indescribably beautiful.
Imagine the starriest night. Ever. Now reflect that onto the ground as well. Double!
I prefer being mad about this situation. Thank you very much.
Agree. That’s the spirit.
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On his channel he details exactly what foodstuffs he brings. He made a point about needing easy to store, calorie dense food which turned out to be pasta. Just... like 200 bags of pasta, along with fresh veggies and fruits for the first few weeks and canned stuff for later. I remember back in 2013 some guy decided to drive the perimeter of Africa in his Jeep. Everyone (me included) told him that several parts of his planned route were conflict zones but he said he knew and had made arrangements and felt safe. We all decided that he was a fool. Fast forward 2 years (with constant updates) and he actually does it. He's got videos of himself with armed rebel soldiers, armed government soldiers, bewildered but friendly locals, and more. I had had to eat some crow and admit that just because **I** didn't have the right skills or plan to attempt something doesn't mean that someone else doesn't. I just looked up his username: u/grecy and he's in this thread right now! Small world!
For what it's worth, I bumped into dozens of people doing the same thing as me. Many, many people are doing it right now and loving it. Good friends of mine did the same trip as me - 2 years, right around the perimeter. They ran out of money (like me), so went back to Australia and back to work. COVID happened and all that. They saved, they planned. And you know what they did recently? They shipped their vehicle back to Africa, and are doing another 2 years exploring. They're loving it. Here's a video I did on their vehicle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULbw20I5Mto Think about that for a second. Completely sane, normal people living ordinary lives in Australia loved their time around Africa so much they decided to do it all over again. Do you think they felt safe the first time? Do you think it was anywhere near as dangerous as Reddit thinks? That tells you everything you need to know.
how much money do you estimate is needed also did you go through Nigeria?
Yeah but with the satellite internet available on a boat out in the pacific you’re paying dollars per Megabyte. Uploading even a 60 second HD video like that would not only take hours but could easily cost several hundred bucks to do. He more than likely completed the crossing and uploaded once he had WiFi. Edit: apparently he has starlink
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Starlink marine is a bit more expensive than that.
Can someone confirm the ongoing costs for us computer nerd dreamers?
https://www.starlink.com/us/business/maritime You’re gonna pay about 2 to 3000 for the initial system and $250 a month and up depending on whether you want Internet while underway . There are some workarounds where you can get away with using Starling RV, but you run into a few issues .
Steep for sure, but manageable and the cost of doing business if one wants to fund their sailing hobby via social media income.
its peanuts compared to the const of that boat and the diesel to power it
Starlink?
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How's winter in Antarctica?
You're on Antartica, aren't you?
The ISP that uses many many satellites in low earth orbit to provide internet access and are launched by SpaceX. The internet provided by those fixed dishes hanging off the side of someone’s house target satellites in geo-synchronous orbit, which means the satellites are 17,000 miles away. Because of that the signal is fairly weak and the latency, or delay, is astronomical. Starlink satellites orbit the earth at around 500 miles high, vastly reducing that problem.
he has starlink, i follow him on IG
Man is on a sailboat in the middle of the pacific. >implying he has no money.
Blue water capable boats are not as expensive as you might think. If you’re handy and ok with living without a lot of creature comforts you can sail for much less than the cost of a monthly car note. Edit: some examples would be Moxie Marlinspike, he and a couple friends bought a run down boat for $1200 in Florida. Spent a summer camping in parks while fixing it up, then spent two years sailing around the Caribbean and up the east coast with basically no money. This guy has an old wooden boat that doesn’t even have a fridge, he makes his money doing photography and odd jobs. https://youtu.be/syJXrbWU1Aw?si=aIlRYKAicmrOrNFd I wasn’t implying he has no money, I was saying the cost of uploading a file like that using traditional satellite internet would be prohibitively expensive. On the flip side you don’t need to be rich by any stretch of the imagination to own a blue water capable boat.
Yes, the boat costs around 25-30k. Marina berth is around 2k/yr Depending on where you live, getting it in and out of the water is around 300$ a pop, 400 for mast removal and install. Registration and insurance are another few hundred a month. Food costs. Tariffs. Ask me how I know. Bro might not be rich, but he's definitely got some money kicking around. ETA - Also the term Boat is not a noun, it's an acronym. Break Out Another Thousand. Maintenance costs.
A few hundred a month for insurance? Mine is just over $500 a year, and my boat cost less than $20k. My first boat cost $1200 including a trailer, granted it wasn’t blue water capable. And if you’re out actually cruising then you don’t need to pay a slip fee to a marina. Again, I wasn’t trying to imply he doesn’t have money. Cruising is not a fantasy for everyone but the rich either.
solar panel on the boat
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Probably starlink. Have heard if lots of people using them on boats and rvs now.
I have been actively following this guy since he left - he is indeed using Starlink and it actually broke down on him the other week. Really interesting journey
Out in the middle of nowhere they work great apparently because those satellites will have low usage. If too many people in the same area use it, it slows down.
I’d like to think he took this video last year and just recently returned to land
Supposedly he’s only posting when he runs into other sailors with Starlink. So he’ll record a bunch of stuff and then post once he gets access to WiFi
A lil learnin for everyone cause it's just superneat. The Doldrums are a notorious sailing/flight trap, to the extent most people just flat out avoid the area. You can end up stranded there for up to weeks because of the dead winds and still waters. He's more or less completely safe for the most part though, people know where he is if he goes dark or runs low on fresh water sources. If he goes dark on social media for too long, a rescue is totally not out of the question because people know he's there.
That’s comforting.
maybe to you, still a big no for me
Yeah fuck this shit.
i would personally just be terrified of some sea monster (shark, whale, squid, who the fuck knows) just seeing this bite sized thing and blasting you on that paddleboard.
Totally a rational fear but the biggest concern he's got goin for him is dehydration or an unfortunate altercation with a jellyfish. Unless ya know.... World Snake.
I know its completly irrational... but so much unknown shit happens at sea, we really dont know...you know lol
I would hope he would have at least one Solar Still for emergencies.
That's probably SUPER likely. The guy doesn't seem like being stuck was super crazy to him, seems more like he probably went out to sea expecting to end up here for a little bit and is just kicking back havin a good time.
He likely has a watermaker at the very least. A solar still as backup. Sailing today is actually easier than it ever was with the right equipment.
Night falls, and the humboldt squid rise from the deep to seek the blood of the brave and foolish....
Think of the ocean as a bathtub. Life gathers near the sides and along the bottom. There's not much going on in the middle because there's nothing to eat.
That's a really fucking cool analogy damn never thought about it like that.
i hear that but... theres also a fuck ton we dont know about the ocean. people and ships go missing all the time
So it's the Calm Belt?
Yeah, it's actually crazy despite the huge fantasy elements; One Piece has a lot of Nautical knowledge laced into it.
so the calm belt exists? Is the one piece real?
Bro looking like Coast Malone
Zach Sparrow
Life of Kai
Yikes, I wouldn't go so far from my boat personally.
I would not leave the cabin
I don’t leave my house
Oh hell no no no
I just got tingles thinking of all the things under him in those waters and him with no life jacket. My lead ass sinks in pools. The downside of putting on muscle, you don't float like you used to and it takes so much energy to keep your head above water. I'd be fucking sleeping in my life jacket, because if I go overboard it'd be 20000 leagues under the sea for me without one.
Saltwater is easier to float in because of physics. Fun fact, the Dead Sea is so salty it's basically impossible to *not* float.
I know this guy! Met him in Washington before he set out. Very cool guy.
I get needing exercise but maybe don’t go that far away from your sailboat??? I would go maybe a dozen yards out and do laps. Who am I kidding, I went kayaking for about an hour off the beach at La Jolla and had to take two Xanax just from getting a couple hundred yards off shore. It was absolutely worth doing and the sea cave was super cool but it strained my nerves to their limits.
If he's in the doldrums, I don't think there's going to be any sudden wind to carry the boat off anywhere. So as long as he has it in sight, he's fine aside from the insanity of what he's doing in the first place.
Yeah I said fuck that and paid the $10 to walk down into the cave from the inside
I was at La Jolla once, a couple friends got in the line up but it the surf was too big for me. 2 or 3 days later there was a viral pic of a 14' great white hanging out in the break with the surfers. I guess it's not dangerous as it saw 50 - 100 surfers, including wipeouts, and went for no one but...
r/thalassophobia
Not sure why people are scared of lassos tho but to each thier own
Have you watched Ted Lasso? Horrifying
Season 2 and 3 really are
me when I'm 8 ft from my couch
Man white people aren't scared of anything but black people
It’s true
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It’s sunset so you’re paddling back to that little speck in the dark? Yeah NO
Great now I have a new thing I want to try AND a new fear 😂 that’s incredible and also terrifying.
The fear is part of the appeal imo, call of the void and all that
Yea I'd slip during the vid, somehow crack my head Ion the board, and never be heard from again
Why does my brain immediately assume there would be a Poseidon sized rouge wave coming if I was in this situation? I would constantly be scanning the water, waiting.
Waves are caused by wind. There's no wind.
Me, on my ship whilst in the navy: thats cool man, wait till you see night
Always thought about how cool it would be to be in the middle of the ocean and be able to look into the night sky like that. Must have been beautiful.
My back tingles watching this video.
if you like this stuff read the book Dove by Robin Graham. its about a young man that sails around the world.
I cant believe bro doxxed himself
And then it’s getting darker and darker and with each second passing the sailboat gets harder and harder too see - till during one frightening moment the sailboat is no longer visible and you are all alone in the dark void with no food, no water and you see a shadow approaching from the deep dark void.
Good for him. But also fuck that.
gee maybe start paddling in the direction of the boat
He said he’s paddling to get exercise since there’s no wind for his boat to move
That's a paddlin'
My ass would just be thinking "sharks, sharks, sharks, sharks" The entire time
i feel like i’m going mad!!! should this man not be wearing a life vest?!
Should? Maybe. But unless his mother or father tell him otherwise, I doubt he'll put one on.