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https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1969-cal-cruising-36-9255450/

so i decided the correct kind of ship that i will be getting when i turn into a salty dawg pirate arrr is a sloop, and this one here is a reasonable example, and illustrates the lower end of the price range for which i will pay

something like this would be perfectly sufficient for a cross-atlantic journey and in general for living in docked somewhere, and it's as cheap as a small sedan but actually big enough for me and my professional ship's ratter

in fact, if i manage my spendage over the next 6 months i think by late summer i will be living in one of these docked in the furthest possible mooring i can find away from the middle of funchal bay... i recall seeing people anchored in ships like this out in Machico so it is probably not hard to find reasonable little anchorages all around the island... maybe not so much here on the east/west facing edges of the north of the island, because there seems to be a lot and frequent swells here (there is several notable surfing breaks around here) but i'm guessing anywhere from over towards the lower areas on the east around towards caniso and machico will probably be the most decent in terms of morning sun and less violent seas, being on the side facing towards the coast of Mauritania

i'm getting super excited about the idea of doing this, and i know that i can have the funds together for this... probably just need to try and keep up my portugesh lessons and get the sloop and my certificate and some lessons on how to operate these sails and some basic navigation/driving etc

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pseudo~u *likes nostr already* 11mo ago

That's very exciting. What a thing to know you can just bug out into international waters anytime.

Keep us posted!

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 11mo ago

yeah, i think it is the way... and i may not end up going west but actually east into the mediterranean

the model i have in my mind of the likely new equator actually being the line approximately currently along the longitude passing through former yugoslavia and chad, libya, hungary... makes it actually a better option, especially since i know in such a little boat you can navigate all the way up into germany along the danube!

pseudo~u *likes nostr already* 11mo ago

haha awesome!

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 11mo ago

yeah, and i'm already familiar with all the major cities along that river too... ruse, vidin, novi sad, belgrade, ulm, ... i think koeln as well? and not to forget budapest!

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 11mo ago

also, this is the reasoning behind this thought - if there is a new glaciation, and this is very frequent in the period after the ~6000 year disaster cycle events - it happened 12000 years ago for sure, they even dubbed it the "ice age" - then you want to be at the equator, max sunshine

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 11mo ago

also, just thinking about it now, this may also be where the humans were concentrated prior to the last geographical pole shift

Brinkman 10mo ago

Will it be habitable while the earth is turning over during the peak of the disaster cycle? Don’t you have to be underground at the beginning before the floods start and then get to a boat if you are too close to the ocean? Or build a boat in the mountains?

772f9545... 11mo ago

What's a pirate's favorite internet service provider?

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 11mo ago

idk, been thinking about how it would be kinda cool to not have internet for those time's i'm out of port

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 11mo ago

i mean, think about it, except where you are anchored next to some island or in some bay of some unpopulated place, you have to be on deck, steering and navigating or be anchored and paying attention that you aren't in deep water while a storm is coming

772f9545... 11mo ago

StARRRRlink.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 11mo ago

haha, yeah, but idk if i have the budget for that shit

vee vill see

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 11mo ago

just some extra random thoughts also

since the link above is an ancient, 60 year old boat, it occurs to me that finding such a vessel with an old school diesel engine with minimal knots on the clock is highly probable, and the old school diesel engines don't depend on electricity to function, everything is mechanical and thermal... and a smart guy knows that at a pinch you can just throw any vegetable oil or even tallow in the tank (presumably need to be blended) and go, and making actual biodiesel in post apoc situation isn't even that hard to do if you can construct a good pearl ash furnace to burn wood down to white mostly potassium hydroxide... which you can then mix with water and hydrolyse these fats and then using a separatory device, simple as a syphon carefully deployed... i mean

engine will still work after the global killshot, just need to stack diesel in the tank and in emergency can dock anywhere near human settlements and probably find either diesel or tons of shitty rapeseed oil and fill up and off you go

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 11mo ago

about the only other thing in my mind is that i really need to have, eventually, weapons stashed in the nether regions of this thing

Gowron 11mo ago

Awesome 👀