Steelboats

[Brent Swain]

If you do a bit of research in other places where his fantas...sorry fantastic life and claims have been scrutinised closely, you will quickly realise that it will likely be the same as usual. I.e a couch at his sister's house and a dole cheque from the Canadian government...

I last lived full time in a house was in 1976.
Boring as watching paint dry .Moved onto my boat as quickly as possible.
Pension is not the dole.
Dole is the $5 trillion the oil companies are subsidized world wide annually . Dole is the $45 billion the Canadian government paid for a 50 year old pipeline assessed at being worth $5 billion.

My last Hilo Hawaii clearance paper, listing the ports visited on that voyage, one of many voyages, US customs tends to check with ports listed.
A good steel boat is one that people hang onto for decades, and trust to round the Horn safely , and recommend to others seeking a boat for a circumnavigation ( Search Silas Crosby, and Tagish )which experienced sailors like Winston Bushnell keep going back to the same designer for their next boat , and recommend to their daughters( Search Sail Magazine for "When Kim Rowed Over. )

 

[Brent Swain]

One thought, since our hero BS has lived a spendid life outside the system, what happens when he gets a bit doddery? Who will look after him?

Continually practicing for the a day one gets a bit Doddery can make it a self fulfilling prophecy ,and bring the doddery part along much more quickly.
Allen Farell lived on his boat , in top shape, until he died a couple of months short of 90.He would have died sooner in the inactive, out of shape shore life, if the boredom didn't kill him first.

 

[Brent Swain]

If you do a bit of research in other places where his fantas...sorry fantastic life and claims have been scrutinised closely, you will quickly realise that it will likely be the same as usual. I.e a couch at his sister's house and a dole cheque from the Canadian government...

I last lived full time in a house in 1976.
Boring ans watching paint dry .Moved onto my boat as quickly as possible.
Pension is not the dole.
Dole is the $5 trillion the oil companies are subsidized world wide annually . Dole is the $45 billion the Canadian government paid for a 50 year old pipeline assessed at being worth $5 billion.
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My last Hilo Hawaii clearance paper, listing the ports visited on that voyage, one of many voyages, US customs tends to check with ports listed.

 

[Brent Swain]

You are bang on.

For sheer sameness the BC coastline has it in spades. Only the sun reflecting off the Cascades adds variety.

Perhaps the mind numbing samey repetitive dark green scenery is why BS is as he is.

Its in the phsyche from living in such a place.

Dont get me wrong-it can be stunningly beautiful-but a constant and unchanging diet of champagne anf fillet mignon soon has one screaming for a cheese and pickle sandwich........................

I just spent 3 weeks in Mexico. On the west coast of Mexico, I could count on one hand or less, all the good all weather anchorages in all the west coast of Mexico.
NO thanks!
Much of the world is that way.
Hakai area of BC has around 811 islands in 35 miles, and almost as many , totally hurricane proof anchorages. No fees of any kind, in fact almost no people. Tons of great food, free for the taking. NO bureaucrats anywhere!

 

[newtothis]

Pension is not the dole.
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So after being economically inactive since your 20s and contributing nothing to the Canadian economy, you now expect the friendly Canadian taxpayer to fork out for your idleness and late-life care. You really do think the world owes you a living, don't you. That's not self-sufficiency, it is complete BS.

 

[Achosenman]

I last lived full time in a house in 1976.
Boring ans watching paint dry .Moved onto my boat as quickly as possible.
Pension is not the dole.
Dole is the $5 trillion the oil companies are subsidized world wide annually . Dole is the $45 billion the Canadian government paid for a 50 year old pipeline assessed at being worth $5 billion.
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My last Hilo Hawaii clearance paper, listing the ports visited on that voyage, one of many voyages, US customs tends to check with ports listed.

So, you’re happy to take a state pension without contributing anything to it? That’s called being a parasite. You also have the bare faced cheek to slag everyone else off who works, pays their way and contributes to Canadian society, thereby allowing you to leech off their hard work and taxes.

IMO, you are nothing but a narssistic parasite. That is nothing to be proud of.

 

[rotrax]

oil under the engine will have caught fire.

I dont know what sort of engines you use, but none of my last three boats has ever had any oil under the engine apart from immediatly after an oil filter change. This, on my boat, is inescapeable as the filter is horizontal and hard to reach.

I now put an old towel under to catch the oil before unscrewing.

My current boat has a dedicated enclosed engine room with an extinguisher firing hole.

So, first thing I would do is turn off the fuel at the tank-easily accessed-fire the big extinguisher through the hole and put out an engine fire.

Any other fires would be dealt with if they occured with the other large extinguishers on board.

Our RNLI offer a boat safety check.

When checked, we were informed by the checker that our boats safety kit was as good as he had ever seen on a non commercial vessel.

Can you say the same Brent?

 

[DownWest]

Continually practicing for the a day one gets a bit Doddery can make it a self fulfilling prophecy ,and bring the doddery part along much more quickly.
Allen Farell lived on his boat , in top shape, until he died a couple of months short of 90.He would have died sooner in the inactive, out of shape shore life, if the boredom didn't kill him first.

More stories picked out of the wind. Plenty of people who look after themselves and live heathy lives, suffer strokes or other problems and become totally dependant on others. Happened to someone we know a couple of weeks ago. Last person one would have thought. Now in a coma with unknown prognosis. Another, needs 24/7 care after a stroke. Blind, in wheelchair and her devoted hubby wheels her around to feel the sea breeze.
So what is your back up plan if you don't live to 90 and croak quickly?

 

[Brent Swain]

So after being economically inactive since your 20s and contributing nothing to the Canadian economy, you now expect the friendly Canadian taxpayer to fork out for your idleness and late-life care. You really do think the world owes you a living, don't you. That's not self-sufficiency, it is complete BS.

As ones personal environmental foot print is directly porportionate to how much money one spends (economic activity) I make no apology for not taking part in the anthropocene extinctions, as much as most people do, or for being as environmentally responsible as I have been. When people choose to live aboard the boats I have built, or enabled them to afford, their personal environmental foot print declines drastically .
I have passed on livelihoods to the people I have trained.
I believe such an environmentally responsible choice of lifestyles deserves a rich reward, which I am enjoying thoroughly ,and passing on to others living as responsibly .It is the one way govts actually reward people for living responsibly, instead of their usual practice of rewarding those who destroy the environment ,and the sustainability of life .
LOL!

 

[Brent Swain]

I dont know what sort of engines you use, but none of my last three boats has ever had any oil under the engine apart from immediatly after an oil filter change. This, on my boat, is inescapeable as the filter is horizontal and hard to reach.

I now put an old towel under to catch the oil before unscrewing.

My current boat has a dedicated enclosed engine room with an extinguisher firing hole.

So, first thing I would do is turn off the fuel at the tank-easily accessed-fire the big extinguisher through the hole and put out an engine fire.

Any other fires would be dealt with if they occured with the other large extinguishers on board.

Our RNLI offer a boat safety check.

When checked, we were informed by the checker that our boats safety kit was as good as he had ever seen on a non commercial vessel.

Can you say the same Brent?

Yes I can say the same, as my boat can be sealed airtight in under a minute, killing any fire quickly. I know of several who tried to fight a foam fire with extinguishers . All lost the battle. Those who shut the oxygen off, all won the battle, with minimal damage (one who was not aboard during an oil stove overflow fire,) . The suggestion that one should do what has failed time and time again, instead of that which has worked time and time again, is really, incredibly dense.

Wouldn't it be nice if those top, infallible, highly qualified ,"experts", who design our engines, had the simple ,uncommon sense ,to make all filtres vertical?

 

[newtothis]

As ones personal environmental foot print is directly porportionate to how much money one spends (economic activity) I make no apology for not taking part in the anthropocene extinctions, as much as most people do, or for being as environmentally responsible as I have been. When people choose to live aboard the boats I have built, or enabled them to afford, their personal environmental foot print declines drastically .
I have passed on livelihoods to the people I have trained.
I believe such an environmentally responsible choice of lifestyles deserves a rich reward, which I am enjoying thoroughly ,and passing on to others living as responsibly .It is the one way govts actually reward people for living responsibly, instead of their usual practice of rewarding those who destroy the environment ,and the sustainability of life .
LOL!

LOL yerself... trying to pass of Benefit Scrounging as as environmentalism is just more BS from Brent Swain. Go ask your average taxpayer what they think of your theory about governments rewarding the feckless. If you had the courage of your convictions, you'd wouldn't live of the society you claim to live outside of.

 

[Brent Swain]

Walking down to a Mexican Marina, I passed a huge signboard advertising all the things they could install, and repair, like bow thrusters ( Never needed one) Air conditioning( Never needed it) refrigeration (never needed it) , etc , etc, the list went on, of all the things I have never needed, in over 45 years of mostly full time cruising and living board. Many of them would support years of cruising budget , far more fun than simply having all that crap aboard, with the stress of keeping it running, and supplied with parts .
No wonder those who feel they must have that kind of complexity in their cruising, so rarely leave the dock, and often, only do so, briefly.

 

[Brent Swain]

LOL yerself... trying to pass of Benefit Scrounging as as environmentalism is just more BS from Brent Swain. Go ask your average taxpayer what they think of your theory about governments rewarding the feckless. If you had the courage of your convictions, you'd wouldn't live of the society you claim to live outside of.

Cutting your cost of living is definitely reducing your personal environmental foot print ,period!


A crab fisherman was on the dock, with a plastic bucket, filled to the top with crabs. A tourist asked him "Aren't you worried about the ones on top, climbing out, and escaping?"
"No!' said the fisherman ." If one tries to escape, his buddies will grab him and haul him back.There is no way they are going to let him escape their fate!"

Same kind of thinking as you advocate!
LOL!

 

[rotrax]

Yes I can say the same, as my boat can be sealed airtight in under a minute, killing any fire quickly. I know of several who tried to fight a foam fire with extinguishers . All lost the battle. Those who shut the oxygen off, all won the battle, with minimal damage (one who was not aboard during an oil stove overflow fire,) . The suggestion that one should do what has failed time and time again, instead of that which has worked time and time again, is really, incredibly dense.

Wouldn't it be nice if those top, infallible, highly qualified ,"experts", who design our engines, had the simple ,uncommon sense ,to make all filtres vertical?

No you cant. You have not had your boat inspected by our RNLI saftey inspector.

What you consider safe for your boat might not be considered good enough by others.

You live off grid, get away with building boats without H&S regulation and have weird ideas like liferafts are superflous.

IMHO, you dont know about the real world because you dont live there.

 

[newtothis]

Cutting your cost of living is definitely reducing your personal environmental foot print ,period!

That may well be, but it doesn't change the fact that you still leech your cost of living off your fellow countrymen. You claim to be oh-so-independent and living an off-grid life away from commerce and industry, and yet you rely on the commerce and industry of others for your free ride. More hypocrisy and BS from BS.

 

[newtothis]

Walking down to a Mexican Marina, I passed a huge signboard advertising all the things they could install, and repair, like bow thrusters ( Never needed one) Air conditioning( Never needed it) refrigeration (never needed it) , etc.

It's amazing what you can do when you work for a living instead of scrounging off the state.

 

[dom]

Cutting your cost of living is definitely reducing your personal environmental foot print ,period!

The most polluted countries in the world are in order:
India
Cameroon
Pakistan
Uganda
Bangladesh
China
Mongolia

By contrast, GDP per capita is led by the usual suspects:
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Norway
Iceland
Singapore

Can you spot what's going on there Brent?

 

[newtothis]

The most polluted countries in the world are in order:
India
Cameroon
Pakistan
Uganda
Bangladesh
China
Mongolia

By contrast, GDP per capita is led by the usual suspects:
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Norway
Iceland
Singapore

Can you spot what's going on there Brent?

Given his propensity for not spotting Baja lee shores, rocks, reefs and other ships, I think he'll also struggle to spot the obvious conclusions drawn here.

 

[Brent Swain]

No you cant. You have not had your boat inspected by our RNLI saftey inspector.

What you consider safe for your boat might not be considered good enough by others.

You live off grid, get away with building boats without H&S regulation and have weird ideas like liferafts are superflous.

IMHO, you dont know about the real world because you dont live there.

Can you tell me where on Quadra Island BC I can get my boat RNLI inspected, so the water will know enough to not come in, when they see the inspection sticker?
Perhaps they could also inspect and pass all my a canning jars, to make them sealed, in the only way possible.
I can just picture those microbes and molecules saying' This one is not RNLI passed ,so it's open house; cant possibly be sealed ,chow time boys."
LOL!
I don't believe any boat in BC or Canada for that matter has RNLI inspection, so they must all leak like hell, with no RNLI inspection ticket to scare the water away!
They cant possibly be airtight, unless RNLI says so?
LOL!
I have seen some pretty dense posts on the internet, but yours takes first prize!
LOL!
Thanks for the laughs, and thanks for so clearly demonstrating the abysmal foolishness of allowing bureaucracy to over ride reality.
Here we live in the free world ,where common sense is allowed to over ride bureaucratic foolishness, for the most part.
Condolences on your loss of the ability to go with common sense, instead of the bureaucratic foolishness you have so generously demonstrated .

 

[Brent Swain]

The most polluted countries in the world are in order:
India
Cameroon
Pakistan
Uganda
Bangladesh
China
Mongolia

By contrast, GDP per capita is led by the usual suspects:
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Norway
Iceland
Singapore

Can you spot what's going on there Brent?

Yes, the poor ones are being polluted to serve the demands of the rich counties, where multinational corporations play them off against one another, forcing a race to the bottom, when it comes to environmental standards.
Pollute your country or starve!