/lit/ - Literature

>>22568489
Getting ready for boat life.

>>22511305
I just don't want to look back at a life that is sitting in an office for 40 hours a week and sitting in traffic for 3 hours a day. Boat life is the cheapest way I have found to manage that with some semblance of comfort, enough comfort to spend the bulk of my time reading and writing, and writing music but I may have moved on from that, I am hoping once I have free time again that will return. Also I have gotten fairly curious about the mental toll of crossing an ocean alone stuck on a small boat for weeks faced with how quickly things could go bad and how those weeks could turn into months because of disaster or because weeks alone leaves me unable to return to society. Alone in the middle of the ocean in a major storm and alone stuck in the middle of an ocean becalmed are two things I have realized I can not live my life without experiencing. Trapped in that tiny space surrounded by nothing but water and having to give in completely to what comes, it seems pretty great.

>>22258865
I don't think I could call the ISS or the South Pole Station a permanent residence, sure they are permanently occupied but they are no ones permanent residence. Small boats on the other hand are the permanent residence for many and for some of them that means sailing through hurricanes and south of the three big capes where you have the convergence of three ocean which produce waves which put those made by hurricanes to shame. Picrel is Robin Knox-Johnston who won the first single handed nonstop and unassisted so circumnavigation, he spend 312 days isolated on his little 32 foot boat with nothing but the ocean and its creatures to keep him company.

A Voyage for Madmen is a good intro, covers that race and the contestants most of whom wrote books about the experience including Bernard Moitessier who could of won but decided to keep sailing instead of returning to his starting port to claim the prize. There are loads of books out there by these people and those like them. Moitessier's book about it, The Long Way is quite good.