Jon decides to go sailing

[StuM]

Originally Posted by Lazy1

I think it's a bot that generates these posts monthly.
It stimulates conversation, provides entertainment, and increases page views for the forum, no real downside.

Usually it's some clown from Sailing Anarchy trolling CF.


And they keep on gettiing bites

[barnakiel]

Originally Posted by jonsailingearth

I have no boat, no money & have never sailed before.

Jon,


Learning to sail will be the first step.


Any big lake close by? An ocean coast far away?


Where you are, are there any sailing clubs? (I do not mean the ones where you go to have a drink with rich friends, I men sailing clubs where people can get access to community owned boats and sailing instructors).


Are you handy? Can you build a boat? Can you fix one?


barnakiel

[kmacdonald]

Having no money kind of limits him to a rubber ducky in a bathtub.

[StuM]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

J
Any big lake close by? An ocean coast far away?

Hardly

[LittleWing77]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

Any big lake close by? An ocean coast far away?

barnakiel

I'm with Stu on that one, Barnakiel. Hahaha

That was an incredibly boneheaded question for you - someone who (as far as I can discern) NEVER asks boneheaded questions.

Good one, Stu!
LittleWing77

[Manateeman]

Please read the original post. No money, no skills, wishes to sail off on a boat to see the world for 10 years. I thought the British had sent all the trolls to Australia... Bombs away. well take that for calling manatees “dugongs”
He does not specify what kind of a boat.
The solution is simple.
Join the British Navy.
Now all of my manatee friends are cavorting drunk and dressed up as lord admirals while singing sea chants, offgassing and flipping their biscuits at passing yachts yelling “don’t tread on me red coats”.
All we need is a walrus and a yellow submarine.
Happy trails to you.
Mark and his luscious mermaid manatees
We are not speedbumps and stop calling us cows!

[barnakiel]

Originally Posted by kmacdonald

Having no money kind of limits him to a rubber ducky in a bathtub.

Troll or no troll, "having no money kind of limits one to rubber ducky in a tub" is exactly the attitude that people with money want to impose on people without!


I am the one who had no money. And so what. Here I am.


barnakiel

[HeinSdL]

It's not really a matter of money, rather a matter of lifestyle choice. I don't know anything about Jon here, but if he is indeed young, no kids, no student loans, no anything then he could get on the water relatively easy, in my view. Probably not on his own boat but stepping onto others' and learning could get him a long way. It would be a haphazard life style but there are people who manage this well, enjoy it and thrive.


The more conventional lifestyle choice -mine- is family, job (some call it career but I never really got into that 'groove') make money and then spend it to buy the boat.


And there are many other lifestyles, as evidenced by participants here, some of whom had the cash to make it happen, others less. But everyone ended up on a boat one way or the other.


Regardless, there are moments when I would want to go back in time and be more like Jon. Though not complaining here in the slightest. But I wish the Jon type of adventurer all the best, there are worse ways to spend your best years.

[kmacdonald]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

Troll or no troll, "having no money kind of limits one to rubber ducky in a tub" is exactly the attitude that people with money want to impose on people without!


I am the one who had no money. And so what. Here I am.


barnakiel

You're right, it's my fault he's in the pickel he's in.

[barnakiel]

Where is our OP anyways?


Another poster scared to death by CF hostility?


barnakiel

[mako]

Jon your depth of sincerity touches my heart and therefore I want to finance your grand adventure.

I was just notified that my great uncle in Nigeria has left me an inheritance of $50 million. I just need you to send me only 1% up front in order to clear the paperwork.

Yours truly, Mr Bergen

[JPA Cate]

barnakiel has a point. Read the book "The Voyage of Jack de Crow".

Ann

[Montanan]

That would be called Brexiting.

[kmacdonald]

Joining the Navy was sound advice. Not so much for the Navy though.

[Manateeman]

Isn’t it the Unlikely Voyage? He wrote two books. I remember his boat was wood and just a small dinghy but nicely done. Unlike the OP I’m pretty sure he did not plan or even want to go around the world. Sort of a...didn’t he say...just got out of hand adventure. Unlike the OP who has no qualms about begging for a boat or “borrowing” a boat, (does that mean without permission) the author had his own vessel and funded his own voyage.
How exactly, by reading this very good book, are we to gain an insight into the grand scheme proposed by the OP. I think it does a grave injustice to an author whose book is a valid and crafted work of art as opposed to a narcissistic plea of very little worth.
I don’t understand your point. Not at all.
Captain Mark and his literate manatees.