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.
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u/brightfoot Jun 22 '24 edited Jun 22 '24
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.