Comment by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF
10 hours ago
Yeah. I'm skeptical that software made for 2 people on a boat in international waters is going to generalize to people living on land under the ongoing American situation
It's good for them, but the only person I know who owns a boat is richer than me, and I'm already richer than basically all my friends
The vast majority of people living on boats are very, very broke. You can buy an old sailboat for about the price of a second-hand car, fix it up yourself, set sail, and now you don't pay rent/mortgage/utilities...
(source: I grew up on such a sailboat, and we were broke as shit)
I agree with your first paragraph, but there are lots of basically-broke people who live on boats
Old sailboats can be had for practically (and in many cases actually) nothing. If you’re reasonably handy and willing to learn you can do all the maintenance they require yourself
Boats can be some of the cheapest housing there is, even more so if you want to live somewhere picturesque
(There are, of course, significant downsides)
I've met people who live on boats, they work odd jobs to buy scrap parts to fix their boats themselves and eat mostly fish that they catch. Just like travelling in general, you can basically do it on nothing if you wish.
I'm sorry but no this is fantasy, unless you plan on everything failing in under decade to actually look after your boat takes money. Even salvaging a boat that's sunk can be very expensive.
For example, a through-hull needs replacing. Sure you could find a secondhand one that fits, but you still need to have it hauled out to replace.
I have only very brief experience from once owning half of a 15 foot fibreglass runabout fixer-upper, but if you've got a 30 foot yacht then can't you just stick it on a trailer yourself? I feel like you're imagining a much bigger craft.
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They thoroughly document their lives, you could just go check whether this skepticism is warranted.
Very often people doing this kind of thing neglect to mention a significant safety net (e.g. parental wealth) that radically changes the kind of things you can do even when you never touch it.
It’s fair to question the funding sources of lodgings in a pragmatic way, and doubly so when one lives on a boat.
In the case of 100R, they seem to have had a lot of help from Patreon folks (per Wikipedia), though I don’t know if this was their sole source of income or funding for their lifestyle. It’s interesting that folks can live like this and share it with the world, and I don’t think that these particular folks have any ulterior motives, and I have not heard anything bad about them. They seem like they’re fairly aboveboard (pun intended).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Rabbits
"To buy Pino Devine & I each got a 10,000$ bank loan. We had savings, but didn't want to be left with an empty account after the purchase."
https://100r.co/site/buying_a_sailboat.html#bankloan
If you go read their logs you'll find that they come across as people that aren't aware of such a "significant safety net" if there is one so even if it exists it is unlikely to have had a relevant influence on their work.
They've been excruciatingly open about their experiences and what they've learned along the way, including pecuniary matters.
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These people seem to treat it as hipster bs art and not a means to actually get work done. For real work I'd say the solution is still the same, use tech that doesn't change every week and avoid needing internet for installation such as a package repo we know won't exist a few years later.