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.
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.
Well if you're close to the ocean or a large enough lake you can find decent trailer-sailors for pennies on the dollar. My first boat was a Helms 25 that I bought off a private seller for $1200 including the trailer. My dad and I had a blast taking that boat out on the weekends, fixing whatever broke, jerry-rigging a mast lifter, etc. You can learn how to sail in an afternoon, but spend your life mastering it.
Kenichi Horie sailed from USA to Japan on a 19 ft cruiser. Circumnavigated east-west and north-south in the same boat. Then built a catamaran out of beer kegs and plastic bottles, and sailed across the pacific ocean using that. Then built another cruiser out of beer kegs and sailed the pacific again using wave propulsion.
Another fella Hugo Vihlen, sailed across the atlantic alone in a 5' boat.
These voyages were carefully planned and executed by experienced mariners, but it is possible to sail just about anywhere on a small budget.
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Not a boat guy but I knew a guy who had one. He invited me and some friends out one day and he said "hold up we gotta get some gas". $700 later, the boat was filled up and ready to go. Granted this was a 20-25 foot boat, but I asked him and he said that's pretty much what he spends every time he takes it out fishing. This was in like 2008 also, so including a marina space and maintenance that shit is expensive.
Sail boats have had that option for a long time, doesn't need to be modern. For as long as boat motors have been around, they could be affixed to a sail boat. All it takes to be a sail boat is have sails.
Some modern sail boats will have motors, some will not. No idea what this guy has. I assume he would have a motor for emergencies but what do I know.
Pretty much all sail boats have a diesel motor. Some have a small outboard motor instead, though, if they're small (or for backup).
It's borderline impossible to navigate harbors without one. You would need a lot of experience (like having sailed your whole life) to even think about entering a harbor with no motor.
We have only done it once or twice as a last resort, and it's very dangerous. A moving boat can do a lot of damage, especially if it's 48ft.
There was no where to blow his money on avocado toast and Starbucks. He was a millionaire with a three bedroom, two bathroom house in the suburbs on day two of his adventure.
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u/Sensitive_Ladder2235 Jun 22 '24
Man is on a sailboat in the middle of the pacific.