Nice thanks Matt where are you located? Stoked to hear you’re on your way to living this way. It’s incredibly rewarding and liberating. Weather is definitely a big contributor to how easy this lifestyle is.

You can and we do but yes salt build up creates skin sores and scalp issues and it never dries also longterm you get mould and it can have negative effects upon your health. Being hygienic is important as when in remote places you need to minimise the need to seek medical support.

You also need to keep in mind that we sail the world so we experience different weather zones and in some places such as SE Asia and the Mediterranean during the dry season we can go months without seeing any rain.

We also catch rainwater but it can contain toxins and heavy metals especially if you’re near populated areas. In SE Asia it’s of poor quality and can’t be used for drinking.

PS I’m no rich kid I grew up very poor and have managed to save well and to focus my time and energy but it seems some people don’t like that 😁 our boat is beat up and we bought it 2nd hand along with the majority of our things onboard. Our sails were purchased 2nd hand and our solar panels are 2nd hand but those are questions few people ask before forming opinions 😁

What’s it like living on a boat? It’s definitely not for everyone. Life here is very free but with that freedom comes a lot of compromises. For one we don’t have endless electricity or water. We have to make our own using solar panels and a water maker or desalinator.

This is good as on one hand you become very aware of power usage and being efficient and this also applies for water production and usage.

To save water we use some of the world’s most efficient showerheads and also have a similar attachment for the end of our taps. These fittings aerate the water and make it feel as though you’re using more water after when in fact you’re using around .625 or 2lts per minute, which compared to the normal 10lt per minute shower head save you a lot of water.

These small efficiencies are what we aim for when living on a boat as it’s all about using less while trying to do more.

It’s why we love #Bitcoin as it’s also about freedom and being efficient with the storage of your time and energy. It’s also about where to focus that time and energy, how to spend it and how to use it.

In the end it all comes down to Proof Of Work.

If you’d like to know more about the fittings we use they’re made by a company in the US called Bricor.

www.bricor.com

We’ve been in Vava’u Tonga for three days now. Arriving here was amazing. There was a 95% full moon and as we sailed around the northern shore of Vava’u we spotted three whales that were about 500ft or ten boat lengths away that were swimming directly at us. I shouted to my wife to start the engine, no I yelled furl the staysail, no I yelled again just watch the whales and tell me what direction they’re heading in then one whale broached about five boat lengths away in the moonlight is was something so surreal.

Frightening at first as you are worried about colliding with them then after my racing mind settled we bear’d away to head in the same direction as they were swimming minimising the chances of coming into contact with them.

In the end we got the engine started and also the watermaker. The watermaker is loud and as the pump on it is high pressure it makes a lot of vibration thru the hull. This we hoped would allow them to hear us and to keep away.

It’s something people don’t think about much but colliding with objects at sea happens a lot and it can be fatal to the boat especially if the boats a monohull and if it’s something hard like a shipping container.

In the end we arrived safely spending the first day anchored off the customs dock cleaning the boat up from the long passage to get here. Yesterday Monday we cleared in and became legal.

Over the next few weeks we’ll explore this paradise and hopefully we’ll get to swim with the humpback whales that migrate here yearly to give birth to their calves.

View over Neiafu harbour below 👇 and at sunset

Stoked to have you here 🤙

Proof of work! Nothing better than bringing an old boat back to life. Low time preference is the way to go 👍

Sounds like a well designed democracy 👍

Welcome 🙏 follow me if you want to know what it’s like to cross oceans and live on a sail boat ⛵️🤙

A post from my wife ❤️ I love seeing her on Nostr helping to create the world we want to see.

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Spot on it’s what’s allowed us to see how important and valuable it is. 🙏

I was raised living on a yacht in the 80’s and have spent my life living and working on yachts around the world. Now sailing our own boat exploring and wandering this amazing planet. Living this way is very liberating and it’s what’s drawn us to Bitcoin. Both go hand in hand it’s all about proof of work. Nothings for free out here.

Definitely has its moments! Let’s just say showering and using the head are not so thrilling 😁

Thanks 🙏

After seven days at sea and 1300nm of sailing we’re 60nm ENE of Vava’u Tonga.

Got 20-25’s off the stern and this old girl is surfing waves like a pro at pipeline!

There’s nothing like crossing oceans on a performance sailing ⛵️ boat. It’s incredibly rewarding, it’s proof of work with salt added.

This is the view off the back porch!

I see it getting better every day! The thing is to retain the users and that’ll come when better and more diverse content.

My surf boards a bit bigger than most. The beauty is that it can carry others with me across oceans 😁

I’ve used their data only service for two years and love it but was under the impression from when I started that you needed to supply KYC for a GSM/voice line? I could be wrong happy to be corrected. Great news if there’s zero KYC!!

No KYC is only for data if you want a number you need to KYC.

Not on mine it’s all positive vibes here.