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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Hope that holds up. Took a sailing class over a decade ago as a first step toward my retirement plan of sailing the world. Figured petrol would be $100/gallon when I retire, so I'll use free wind. Figured I could engineer an automatic sailing system combined with GPS to skipper the boat as I sleep (it will be a commercial product well before I engineer it).
In the other thread, it has me thinking how much joy I would get living at sea off the coast of CA, paying no state taxes at all, but enjoying every remaining enjoyable thing about CA.
Perhaps when I cease having an income, I'll identify as an indigenous trans Californian and reap whatever reparations I'm owed.
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Sailing and living on a boat is a lot of work. I busted my rudder in Cuba this winter and Cuba had nothing to offer to fix it. I dove on the rudder and strapped it with scrap metal and have to haul out in Florida somewhere to fix it. Can’t sail confidently until I do that. So many things broke in Cuba, including my windvane ( the “automatic sailing system” you refer to in a way, but think you’re more talking about autopilot.). Checking your anchor five times a night in a storm during driving rain and not getting sleep because your hatches and port lights developed a leak and everything in the boat is wet and being in seas too rough to cook real food gets old pretty quick. It’s not all tits and sunshine like you see in the movies.