Been doing this since 2015 now on a 40ft mono(hull). Currently wintering in Sicily. Picked up a wife along the way.<p>If you aim to do this on a budget like us, you best be good at fixing things. Plumbing, rigging, engines, fibreglass repairs, more plumbing, sewing, electrical and electronics problems, etc.<p>The reward is remote anchorages where you're away from everyone else and getting absolutely unenthusiastic about yet another spectacular sunset.<p>Also dramatic moments in storms, dragging anchors, other boaters being incompetent and inconsiderate, many great friendships and a spirit of community amongst other liveaboards like none other.
Ken and Roberta Williams (of Sierra fame) spend most of their time sailing around the world, and blog about the experience: <a href="https://www.kensblog.com/blog-2/" rel="nofollow">https://www.kensblog.com/blog-2/</a>.<p>Blogs like these convinced me to start doing my yachtmaster qualifications. We're a good 15 years away from all the kids moving out but I can think of much worse ways to spend retirement.
Slightly unrelated, but why does Open Street Map display location names using the native language of the country? Japan for example has the names displayed in Japanese, China in Chinese, Russia in Russian, etc.<p>That means the map is basically useless for anyone who isn’t fluent in every single language on the planet. Imagine you’re traveling in Japan and you’re looking for Kyoto. If you use OSM, you’re screwed unless you can read Japanese.
<a href="https://www.sailboatlistings.com/photographs/60853" rel="nofollow">https://www.sailboatlistings.com/photographs/60853</a> for sail for $200,000
That's amazing! Last year was the first year that I sailed, and I just fell in love with. I live in Croatia, so Adriatic sea is my first sea to sail. And I really started seriously consider to sell my flat, buy a sailing boat and just live.<p>Captain I wish you calm see and happy voyage!
No entries since Sep 2021. Is he alright?<p>Edit: heldtec@ just posted a link to what appears to be his boat for sale: <a href="https://www.sailboatlistings.com/photographs/60853" rel="nofollow">https://www.sailboatlistings.com/photographs/60853</a>
More context on the skipper <a href="https://www.noonsite.com/news/portrait-of-a-cruiser-long-term-single-hander-anthony-swanston/" rel="nofollow">https://www.noonsite.com/news/portrait-of-a-cruiser-long-ter...</a>
At first, I thought this was going to be about Sven Yrvind, whose self built tiny boats are pretty incredible.<p>You can follow his latest build on
<a href="https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCptM0nqGDJLz14oP6ROdKRw" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCptM0nqGDJLz14oP6ROdKRw</a>
For people interested in sailing you could do worse than check out some of the more popular sailing YouTube videos out there. That's how I got started. The first step was realising that "regular" people like me could do it and it wasn't just the preserve of yacht club douch bags (they're still out there I'm sure). The fact that Brian from Delos turned out to be an (ex) programmer was also a pretty big inspiration to me.<p>Here's my favourites from my subscriptions.<p>- SV Delos - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvLc83k5o11EIF1lEo0VmuQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvLc83k5o11EIF1lEo0VmuQ</a> / <a href="https://svdelos.com/" rel="nofollow">https://svdelos.com/</a> - Ex programmer, may have worked at MS<p>- Ran Sailing - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLYd5EnTTwUKhouIkHoqzMw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLYd5EnTTwUKhouIkHoqzMw</a><p>- Sailing Uma - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXbWsGV_cjG3gOsSnNJPVlg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXbWsGV_cjG3gOsSnNJPVlg</a><p>- Erik Aanderaa - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUH6fLsV6J7WKEmf7vJKfAw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUH6fLsV6J7WKEmf7vJKfAw</a><p>- Sam Holmes Sailing - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE4vct4tqxSuG4JH6vMVZSA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE4vct4tqxSuG4JH6vMVZSA</a><p>- Sailing Project Atticus - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF45qzioJ_0FVdZVG2NJTWg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF45qzioJ_0FVdZVG2NJTWg</a><p>- Christian Williams - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS6qLhh5YBeL42HRMh3dc1A" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS6qLhh5YBeL42HRMh3dc1A</a><p>- How to Sail Oceans - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTmJcC_Yw3IL7Bvtf_7nTLw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTmJcC_Yw3IL7Bvtf_7nTLw</a><p>- Sailing Yacht Florence - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkExLY1E6CE-GPsMCdSjmxQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkExLY1E6CE-GPsMCdSjmxQ</a> - The guy is/was an electronic engineer?<p>- Calico Skies Sailing - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGFbz7qMXCm28EPCkZWSMKg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGFbz7qMXCm28EPCkZWSMKg</a><p>- Sail Life - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/SailLife" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/c/SailLife</a> - Lots of DIY boat work, but nicely done.<p>- Sailing Kittiwake - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT9U1fPkHj0mJjC4LWGH26g" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT9U1fPkHj0mJjC4LWGH26g</a><p>- Gone with the Wynns - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/gonewiththewynns" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/gonewiththewynns</a><p>- Sailing Soulianis - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRqsOR0Y2zru-jXSzLcMcxg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRqsOR0Y2zru-jXSzLcMcxg</a><p>- Sailing La Vagabonde - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww</a><p>- MJ Sailing - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvJGfEEg7R04-ifkg_FFnaw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvJGfEEg7R04-ifkg_FFnaw</a><p>- Sailing Ruby Rose - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9rRsBE2nFbnUSjtmv6Jq6w" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9rRsBE2nFbnUSjtmv6Jq6w</a> (not so keen on this one now, lots of catamaran reviews)<p>It's important to realise that not everything these people do is always a "correct" or good practice, but watching all of these people /definitely/ helped me get my qualifications down the line, and I still enjoy the escapism of watching someone sail around the Bahamas on a cold winter evening (my boat is up on the hard in N Wales, UK. The Bahamas it isn't).<p>For me (YMMV) another thing that helped was joining the local dinghy sailing club. I'm really not interested in racing, but it was cheap (they rent out boats, or you can crew on someone elses), and a lot of what I learned about sailing there was directly translatable to the 43ft (13.1m) boat I now sail.<p>There is also a sailing slack run buy a couple of tech people that you might be able to join if you're interested in getting started and want some more pointers.<p><a href="https://join.slack.com/t/sailboatguide/shared_invite/zt-g0b16zau-7lfaZFrJ48Zz~38DXSyImw" rel="nofollow">https://join.slack.com/t/sailboatguide/shared_invite/zt-g0b1...</a><p>*edit* And if anyone is curious, I post about my boat adventures here <a href="https://twitter.com/SYSilverGirl" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/SYSilverGirl</a>
MailASail itself is interesting too. They provide stripped down email hosting for cruisers on low-bandwidth connections (satellite internet, SSB* with pactor modems). HTML, attachments, signatures are stripped away.<p>The blog hosting is designed for submitting short text updates by (satellite) email, optionally with low-resolution photos, which are converted into blog posts.<p>* Seems the SSB service is no longer there, or maybe I'm confusing it with sailmail.com
Paul Lutus went from no experience to spending three years sailing around the world in 1988-1991. He wrote a book about it which he published on his web site:<p><a href="https://www.arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp</a>
I love this!<p>I'm actually planning to move full-time into a sailing yacht either this year or next, though the fact I'm doing this while working a full time job (remotely of course) will mean it's a rather slow rate of travel! I'm hoping to buy a forty footer of some description (probably a ketch but that could change between now and then) and do a lot of the work making it a comfortable place to live and work myself.
Here's a great site over two nomads that sail around the pacific. They have some interesting reads, here's their advice over internet + sailing: <a href="https://100r.co/site/off_the_grid.html#internet" rel="nofollow">https://100r.co/site/off_the_grid.html#internet</a>
the risks of owning a sailboat<p>> The Evelyn Roberts, a Hans Christian 42, almost directly opposite to me decides to sink. The owner is stuck in the USA and is not allowed through Malaysia's closed border. He has no insurance!<p>> The cause of sinking is simple. The hose on the galley sink came off. That is why boats have seacocks. By turning a handle through 90 degrees the Evelyn Roberts would not have sunk.<p><a href="http://blog.mailasail.com/wildfox/posts/2020/11/15/559-evelyn-roberts" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mailasail.com/wildfox/posts/2020/11/15/559-evely...</a>
About content, I love watch the videos of Erik Aanderaa (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/kjolevannspumpe" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/kjolevannspumpe</a>) from NO BULLSHIT JUST SAILING.<p>He sail across the North Atlantic ocean in some wild conditions.
I would love to do this too. My wife romanticizes about doing something like it also. Alas, she has severe motion/seasickness so anything involving boats that is beyond a 15 minute ferry ride across a calm river is a no-go.
Are there sailboat owners offering ocean crossings as a paid "experience"? This is something I'd love to try without making it my entire lifestyle immediately.
This just begs the question why?<p>It's not the 18th century anyone, if you want to get from A to B there's better ways. Even if you want to go sailing, just go and do it and have it done. This seems like some form of nautical itinerancy.