THE SEA GYPSY TRIBE – 2024 UPDATE

by Ray Jason

For over a decade I have been encouraging people around our Watery World to form Sea Gypsy Tribes. My belief is that they are the best defense against any catastrophe that may overwhelm Society. Here is my 2024 update.

The basic concept remains the same. Essentially, it provides all of the survival benefits of land-based emergency “prepping,” but with the significant advantage of not being stationary.

Human history proves that when people have to choose between starving and marauding, they always attack. Having an ocean-ready sailboat, properly equipped and stocked, allows one to “Flee to the Sea!”

 

 

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Here’s why sailing boats are ideal survival platforms.

They are propelled by the wind. On my longest single-handed voyage of 30 days from Hawaii to San Francisco, I used my diesel engine for only 2 hours. The Age of Exploration and the establishment of the great Oceanic Trade Routes were achieved solely through wind power.

Modern sailboats have been using solar panels and wind generators for decades. Although these “green” energy sources do not successfully scale up for massive urban requirements, they are perfect for sailors. They produce enough electricity to power refrigeration, lights, pumps, radios, GPS, fans, computers, etc.

Reverse-osmosis onboard desalination systems provide plentiful water. The less expensive option, that I have used for decades, is a simple catchment system to fill my tanks with rain water. I have never run out in all of my years of sailing the Wide Waters.

It is easy to store plenty of long-life, non-perishable food onboard. Rice, pasta and flour are basic staples with a long shelf life. Canned meats such as chicken, tuna, salmon, beef, sardines, crab-meat, shrimp and turkey are widely available.

Entertainment has certainly advanced since Capt. Cook’s days. Singing sea chanteys has been replaced by ebooks, real books, music players, board games, computer games and movies on DVD. Plus there are magnificent birds, dolphins and whales as companions.

Self-defense is obviously easier when you are a moving target. SHTF pirates will be limited by the fact that almost all of them rely on internal combustion engines. They can only venture out a limited distance from the coast due to their fuel requirements.

My personal Sea Gypsy Tribe has members skilled with firearms, bows and arrows, close-quarter knives and IEDs. Not only are we a moving target, we are also a formidable FAFO adversary.

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Putting a Sea Gypsy Tribe together should be done carefully and secretly. All members must be Kindred Spirits in the most profound sense. The ideal size is 5 to 10 boats. Less than 5 does not supply much “strength in numbers” and more than 10 potentially leads to personality disputes and decision-making difficulties.

Physical fitness should be the norm and not the ideal. Boats with kids onboard are particularly valuable. Each Tribe should have at least one person capable of doing Celestial Navigation and this skill should be revered and taught.

When an emergency occurs, the boats should head to a pre-arranged offshore rendezvous point. Each vessel should depart separately and quietly so that they will not be noticed. Once assembled, then a Decision Council will convene.

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Through the years, I have written over a dozen articles fine-tuning my Sea Gypsy Tribe concept. Some of the possible catastrophes that I previously discussed included:

  • Economic Collapse

  • Cyber Attack

  • Electric Grid Failure

  • Massive Civil Unrest

  • Bio-weapon Release

  • Reserve Currency Termination

  • Electro-Magnetic Pulse Weapon

  • Nuclear War Devastation

  • Peak Oil

  • Climate Change Crisis

  • Digital Enslavement

  • CBDC Control Gulag

In those prior essays, I discussed each of these issues and then described how Sea Gypsy Tribes have the best chance of surviving these cataclysms and possibly even flourishing after some of them.

On the topic of Climate Change, I completely reversed my position after I did more serious research. I realized that there was no genuine human-induced Climate Emergency. Instead it is a lie designed to further enslave Humanity.

As a live-aboard ocean sailor, I am more immersed in raw Nature than 90% of Humanity. So, I share the sincere desire of the early environmentalists, who truly wanted to protect the Oceans, Mountains and Deserts. However, Climate Change is a brazen power grab.

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As we sail into 2024, I will now discuss some new dangers that deserve serious analysis. They are:

  • Technocratic Tyranny

  • White Displacement

  • The Human to Cyborg Transition

 

TECHNOCRATIC TYRANNY

After a decade of research, I am convinced that there is a self-anointed group of Elitists, who want to Rule the World. I fondly refer to them as our Malignant Overlords. Certainly, history is strewn with similar tyrants, but now there is a significant difference.

Recent advances in technology provide them insanely powerful methods of control. They claim that their New World Order is designed to catalyze global improvement. But what they are truly seeking is to build a High-Tech Slave Planet.

The Sea Gypsy Tribes have the best chance of escaping this control grid. Most people will be imprisoned by the Central Bank Digital Currency and the Digital I.D. systems. But the Tribes will be bartering with folks on out-of-the-way islands and distant shores, where independent people are far less likely to buy into the lunacy.

More importantly, when events start to go disastrously sideways, these ocean vagabonds will go into full self-preservation mode, which means fishing and foraging. This will initially be buffered by the long-term food supplies that they already have stashed onboard.

Knowing that the Sea Gypsy Tribes are “out there somewhere” resisting the Cyber-Chains, should inspire those onshore, who are also striving to rebel against the brutal oppression.

WHITE DISPLACEMENT

Any perceptive person can see that there is a massive and deliberate campaign underway to denigrate White People and diminish their value to Society. Statues of prominent Whites are removed or demolished. Men are forced to undergo “White Privilege” re-education. TV commercials are full of “multi-cultural” families devoid of White Parents and White Children.

The Sea Gypsy Tribe movement is an excellent anti-dote to this. It is a True Meritocracy. You either have the skills and courage to sail the vast ocean or you don’t. The Sea will not grant you a pass because of your Race, Gender or Sexual Preference.

As a result, the offshore cruising community is a significantly White sub-culture. We surely do not exclude others. But they earn their acceptance through their conduct and not through immutable characteristics that they were randomly born with.

The children are home-schooled onboard and they are taught real-world skills and decision making. A sizable portion of the Cruising Fleet is out here because they deliberately have chosen to flee from the Real World. Many of us use the stars to navigate. Yet I have never heard the term “Lesbian Astronomy” mentioned.

FROM HUMAN TO CYBORG

For thousands of years, ordinary people have had to suffer under the rule of maniacal dictators (Malignant Overlords). But even the worst of these power junkies never wanted to actually change the very nature of human beings.

But that is what is facing us “little people” early in the 21st Century. Crazy People – and that is how they would have been perceived in saner times – do not get locked away for everyone’s protection. Instead, they get flown to Davos on private jets to promote their personal psychoses.

They literally want to merge Man with Machine. They even have a catchy word for it – Trans-humanism. They market it as being enormously beneficial for Humanity. They will show videos of amputees being able to walk due to a brain chip.

What they don’t mention is that the regular folk will get The SLAVE BRAIN CHIP and the Elites will receive The IMMORTALITY BRAIN CHIP.

Because of this lunacy, the Sea Gypsy Tribes may have to play a role like the Monks of the Dark Ages who kept alive the flame of previous human knowledge in their caves and monasteries. But in this vile scenario, our mission will be monumentally important.

We will be the living custodians of the True, Natural, Biological, Carbon-based Human Being.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
February 29, 2024 7:55 am

OK, but bring a blue boat tarp and watch your six . . . and yer high noon.

I’M ONLY WEARING BLUE FROM NOW ON

.
Especially see Mark’s voluminous comments/links, way down the page.

There is no New Frontier. Stand and fight:

They can’t put the creeping death upon ya
If you stand

Lon Moe ER
Lon Moe ER
  Anonymous
February 29, 2024 8:13 am

“Follow the gourd!”

“Give me your shoes!”

“People in blue, are immune to DEWs”

Lol

Does mark work for a blue tarp manufacturer or retailer?
Cause that would be a conflict of interest, you know, if he did.

mark
mark
  Lon Moe ER
February 29, 2024 11:36 pm

Lon Moe ER,

Being a Prepper in occasional hurricane country I actually have enough super large tarps to cover both my houses (one is a doublewide I rent out) and my one room man cave we call the Little House…in case of wind damage…and they are all BLUE!

Bought most of them (except one recent purchase) Pre Maui.

Added three smaller Blue ones to cover all three vehicles.

Now I have a red barn…with a tin roof…and I’m considering painting it…yep…BLUE!

Whata ya gonna Dew?

Htos1av
Htos1av
  Anonymous
March 1, 2024 10:15 am

UV lasers are NOT “new news”….had them in the 80’s, online.

Lon Moe ER
Lon Moe ER
February 29, 2024 8:04 am

“After a decade of research, I am convinced that there is a self-anointed group of Elitists, who want to Rule the World.”
You are probably correcr.

Why do we always assume those at the top want to do us harm?
Not all the evidence of harm between people I see comes “from the top”

What if the clot shots were the most humane way to off 6 billion people who are living hand to mouth, desperate lives, marred by them abusing each other and themselves?

People at the bottom pursue horrible lifestyles. Alcoholism, drug addiction.
Gambling. Porn. Rape.Robbery. Theft. Murder. Molestation.

Why shouldn’t these sick ones be addressed?

One’s daughter is more likely to be raped or murdered by a street nog than an elite is all I’m saying.

There are other angles to consider.

[Sorry Ray, gotta play devil’s advocate, though I love your articles]

Lon Moe ER
Lon Moe ER
  Lon Moe ER
February 29, 2024 8:28 am

So everyone here actually thinks every wealthy person of power is a child sexing pervert who wants to kill you?

Does that about size it up?

Pretty certain, no one here would turn down an offer of such wealth and power.

No. Many would foolishly step right into the breach to be used by them, same as all the rest.

Next time you watch Trump look at him closely. He is tired of his current assignment which I believe is to espouse endless nationalist talking points/platitudes, to fool the sheep into thinking: “It’s all going to be ok.”

Montefrío
Montefrío
  Lon Moe ER
March 1, 2024 11:08 am

Pretty certain, no one here would turn down an offer of such wealth and power.

Speak for yourself.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  Lon Moe ER
February 29, 2024 3:11 pm

The problem with your theory is that they exactly did NOT do that (“humanely” killing off the homeless, the poor – global or domestic, the lazy).

They did focus on the old and obese though, but otherwise seemingly those that actually have jobs and belong to the middle class. So I agree with ICE, it was more likely intended as monetary policy to slow the velocity of money and give them time to regroup after the Repo market collapse in summer 2019 and buy time to implement CBDCs.

You will recognize them by their fruits.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Svarga Loka
March 1, 2024 9:45 am

What is more humane than motivating people to not only violate their own publicly stated beliefs, but to choose to trust a noble/son of man?

The vast majority WANTED the kill shot.
Caveat emptor.

They sold you the religion.
Then they got you to violate it.
After that?
Killing you is completely legal.

“The one who sins is the one who will die”

Y’all were warned.
If you claim christianity as your faith, and choose to ignore your faith and listen to nobles/men, took the vax, and suffered consequences?
That’s on you.

You all have had the bible for centuries.
You have no excuse for failing this test.
_____
Caveat:
The children/adults who were killed/injured who had no voice/choice?
They were all murdered/assaulted.

Htos1av
Htos1av
  Anonymous
March 1, 2024 10:18 am

Coof19 WAS an iq test-it ALSO segregated US as a target singularly.

Choose wisely.

wideguy
wideguy
  Lon Moe ER
February 29, 2024 5:41 pm

The “elites”, who have been around since Christ was a cowboy, want only to do good, for the world, for everyone, for the earth, and especially for themselves, because after all, being an elite and taking responsibility to give all sorts of directions to the common people is quite taxing.

The problems are always the same, trying to change a complex, even chaotic thing like a human society requires far more information and knowledge that is ever possible to collect, and even when it gets collected, nobody really knows what to do with the information, or can actually understand what the data might be telling them. So they make shit up and bluster and pose and invariably make things worse.

You are correct though that (some) people “at the bottom” pursue horrible lifestyles and engage in crime, but so to people “at the top”, and even some people “in the middle”.

Travis Bickle
Travis Bickle
  Lon Moe ER
March 1, 2024 10:11 am

“People at the bottom pursue horrible lifestyles. Alcoholism, drug addiction.
Gambling. Porn. Rape.Robbery. Theft. Murder. Molestation.”

And people at the top think they are God and despise Freedom. I’ll deal with the vice people anyday. Murderers and Rapists can go to jail (hopefully) and won’t rule.

Brewer55
Brewer55
February 29, 2024 8:19 am

Ray, Matt Bracken’s (former Navy Seal) latest book “Doomsday Reef” will be out in a few months. Like you, he is an avid sailor and, this book is set 10 years after the collapse of CONUS. It is life aboard his sailboat and all that goes with it in a dystopian reality.

It’s getting closer.
Low def screen grab. Real cover is 3,000 wide. pic.twitter.com/k5Z52Fx1ek

— Matt Bracken (@Matt_Bracken48) February 29, 2024

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Brewer55
Brewer55
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 8:37 am

We’ve traded some communication off and on over the years. He lives in Florida on the east coast.

His GAB profile:
https://gab.com/Matt_Bracken

He posts frequently on X & GAB.

Tr4head
Tr4head
  Ray Jason
March 1, 2024 10:16 am

Good for you. I co authored this piece about Big Tech a long while back you may like, also published here.https://worldyturnings.wordpress.com/2022/01/15/here-i-come-to-save-the-day-2/

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  Brewer55
February 29, 2024 10:25 am

I thought Matt might read this. He lurks here more than we know, I’m betting. He comments on rare occasions.

Matt Bracken
Matt Bracken
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 9:18 am

Michael Yon will be in Florida in a few days, not sure of his itinerary yet. I keep my escape pod in NE Florida. I don’t know how viable it will be to have 10-15 boats ready to go on a freedom flotilla, but it’s an interesting idea. Maybe more realistic is to share a list of desirable anchorages out of CONUS where freedomistas can rendezvous. SSB call signs and frequencies, when available will also be a big help.

Sharing HF SSB “Cruising Net” frequencies is also a good idea. Even folks who don’t have an SSB transmitter can often listen. Critical information about port safety, govt changes for better or worse etc can be gleaned from the airwaves. While the internet still works, websites like cruisersforum.com are also valuable sources of information on boats, gear, and potential escape destination ports.

I wrote this about a decade ago and I highly recommend anybody going down this path read it:
“Get Yourself a 30-Footer and Go!”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3095240/posts

“Matt’s Escape Pod”
https://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/escape.html

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VOWG
VOWG
  Matt Bracken
February 29, 2024 9:40 am

You might need a small warship.

w
w
  VOWG
February 29, 2024 5:50 pm

Yeah, me and a bunch of bikers I hang with are getting up a plan to steal a ship and arm it for piracy. Most of us are technical/mechanical guys as well as deepwater sailors, but the talent runs to experts in armaments, communications and electronic countermeasures. The ship we have in mind is a sweet sailor, and we’re going to upgrade the auxiliary engines so it will do 40 knots under power.

Every one of us dreamed of being a pirate! Now we will get a chance at it.

Matt Bracken
Matt Bracken
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 7:35 pm

Little concept called ‘hull speed.’

wideguy
wideguy
  Ray Jason
March 1, 2024 1:41 pm

It’s not a sailboat hull, but small powered ship with sails. It has a large retractable center board.

MartelsHammer
MartelsHammer
  Ray Jason
March 2, 2024 2:36 pm

Yeah not in a displacement hull he isn’t…lol

Htos1av
Htos1av
  Matt Bracken
March 1, 2024 10:21 am

BIG salute from Amelia Island!! ANOTHER Florida brother!!!

Matt Bracken
Matt Bracken
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 9:22 am

BTW, as Brewer mentioned, my new novel (should be out in about 2 months max) takes place on a sailboat during a post SHTF escape from South Carolina, beginning in Beaufort.
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wideguy
wideguy
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 5:55 pm

I see it has a keel. I’d be surprised if it didn’t, but the keel I see is not enough to carry much sail at all…I assume there will be a centerboard, of that the keel will be greatly enlarged?

Matt Bracken
Matt Bracken
  wideguy
February 29, 2024 7:45 pm

It has twin fin keels with bulbs, 5,000# of lead in each bulb.
Photo from many haulouts ago.
After 30 years, more minuses than pluses.
But great on the ocean. Very balanced, steers great with the prop and rudder in clean water all the time.
But when you go aground on a super high tide (like after a T/S) you are screwed.
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w
w
  Matt Bracken
March 1, 2024 1:42 pm

Thanks, this isn’t the picture I thought was being referred to…

Matt Bracken
Matt Bracken
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 7:38 pm

Where are you in Panama? Which side? I have boating pals down there to meet.
I love Green Cove Springs Marina. Hauled out and did much other work there.
“Windward Passage” and “Abraham’s Bay” (Mayaguana) were also in the running for titles.
I’ll email you.

Htos1av
Htos1av
  Ray Jason
March 1, 2024 10:24 am

I don’t know if I’m valuable in any way, but I have about 500 schematics for radio memorized, just a heads up….since my first ham rig in 1968.

Travis Bickle
Travis Bickle
  Ray Jason
March 1, 2024 10:24 am

People don’t know but Panama was in a mini Revolution over a now closed copper mine Nov 2023. Total chaos esp in Western Provinces. I was there for a portion of it – no food, medicine or gas due to road pirates.

MartelsHammer
MartelsHammer
  Ray Jason
March 2, 2024 2:33 pm

Talk with Michael if you ever get the chance. He is super tuned in. Matt is awesome…..but to be a Sea Gypsy…..well you have to be a Sea Gypsy…..building those skills and assets takes a long long time…..Start today!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Brewer55
February 29, 2024 8:32 am
Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
February 29, 2024 8:36 am
Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
February 29, 2024 10:00 am

Hijack the starship?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w05jgQmSDGY

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  Brewer55
February 29, 2024 10:23 am

I was just going to post that. I’m hope to get a signed copy after it’s released. Any how are you doing, Brewer? I’ve been wondering…

Brewer55
Brewer55
  Mary Christine
February 29, 2024 10:33 am

I’m doing well, thanks for asking. I’ve dropped almost 10lbs., the blood pressure is down, and I see the cardiologist in about 3 weeks to assess the aneurism. I don’t believe it will need any surgery — just monitoring.

While replying, I highly recommend the beet supplements (I have the chews) and a nitric oxide supplement (OTC) for heart & artery health. I believe that and some reduction in weight has dropped my BP by about 15 pts on the systolic and ~5 pts on the diastolic.

Now, to make this an ongoing lifestyle change!

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  Brewer55
February 29, 2024 1:09 pm

Glad you are doing better! I need to drop 10 lbs and I will be a happy camper

mark
mark
  Brewer55
February 29, 2024 11:39 pm

Good for you Brewer Buddy!

Brewer55
Brewer55
  mark
March 1, 2024 8:03 am

Thanks, my friend!

Htos1av
Htos1av
  Brewer55
March 1, 2024 10:20 am

He’s a FANTASTIC writer, even Clancy sounds like a high school essay in comparison….

Eyes wide Shut
Eyes wide Shut
February 29, 2024 8:21 am

A ship on the sea won’t save any anybody from the seal, trumpet and bowl judgements of God or the separation of the sheep and the goats.

VOWG
VOWG
  Eyes wide Shut
February 29, 2024 9:41 am

Food and fresh water is needed, the things found on land other than fish.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 10:02 am

How ’bout aquaculture/hydroponics onboard for greens ‘n’ stuff?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 11:02 am

The broccoli sprouts are awsum, too, and radish.
https://www.trueleafmarket.com/collections/wholesale-sprouting-seed
Very storable. Cheaper in bulk.

wideguy
wideguy
  Anonymous
February 29, 2024 6:07 pm

Being a pirate ship, we’ll have plenty of rye to sprout and turn into whiskey.

Red Greenback
Red Greenback
  wideguy
March 1, 2024 8:19 am

I though pirates drink rum.

wideguy
wideguy
  Red Greenback
March 1, 2024 1:44 pm

We are modern pirates.

VOWG
VOWG
  Ray Jason
March 1, 2024 7:45 am

Have our bodies changed too much to make that diet healthy?

PaddyRed
PaddyRed
February 29, 2024 8:33 am

I love your articles ray.

I think you are descended from the sea people.

Cpt_Obviuos
Cpt_Obviuos
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 6:03 pm

30+ years ago, when I was in the Navy and stationed at Treasure Island, SF was just starting to decline (and even back then, Oakland was a shithole). I did have some good times there, but again, you could feel the entropy that was about to pull all that was good out of SF. Liberal “ex” hippies finally took control.

I got to drive the ship (as a qualified QM) under Golden Gate many times, and it’s true, it’s quite soul-stirring when it’s just you and the Sea. My ship (MSO-439) mainly patrolled along the West Coast, from SD all the way up to British Columbia, but we did hit the high seas, though not for very long, as minesweepers aren’t meant to be too far from the shores (for obvious reasons). A full complement of ship’s crew was only 73, and that was when the Weekend Warriors had to come onboard for their once-a-month jams.

But it’s that feeling, the one you get when you realize just how small you really are in proportion to the Earth, that gives you honest humility; it also helps you experience Nature as God intended, a Force so powerful that no man will ever achieve that level. No, when it’s just you and the stars and the Sea, there’s no finer spirituality. Water is Life; Life is Water. The Zen creeps in!

Anyway, I do miss sailing, and hope to hit the water again someday. And it’s beyond tragedy, what’s happened to SF (along with the entire state); the fact is, there is no more SF, it’s gone. At least we got to see it when it was at its finest, or as close as it gets.

Cpt_Obviuos
Cpt_Obviuos
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 7:04 pm

AE ammo ship, huh? Geez — I thought MSO duty was bad (and the one I was on was a Vietnam-era refit, too). You know what it’s like to be on GQ constantly, losing stomach lining the whole time, and just praying to God that He had other plans for you than dying horribly in some backwater country, I see.

“WOODEN SHIPS; IRON MEN,” we all said, as we floated in jeopardy.

Swrichmond
Swrichmond
February 29, 2024 9:08 am

You will be hunted down, looted, raped, pillaged, and thrown dead into the sea.

VOWG
VOWG
  Swrichmond
February 29, 2024 9:42 am

It happens, in fact not very long ago.

Brewer55
Brewer55
  Swrichmond
February 29, 2024 10:34 am

Thanks for the input and the ray of hope in your message! /smh

Swrichmond
Swrichmond
  Brewer55
February 29, 2024 12:17 pm

I understand the desire to escape. There are so many people on the planet there is nowhere to escape to. Long term survival in other than a hand-to-mouth manner requires agriculture, with enough excess production to fund a suitable security force.

This requires permanence. Permanence means you will eventually be found, scouted, and overwhelmed, unless you are a state-sized or larger cooperative.

We need to focus on recovering and keeping control of the current political structures. Anything less is puerile fantasy and diversion of effort.

Our enemies are powerful, known, and few.

wideguy
wideguy
  Swrichmond
February 29, 2024 6:20 pm

Good points, thanks. Unless you have someplace to escape to, (like HardscrabbleFarmers place, you are better off staying in an area you know well where there are people you know well.

I’m too old to give much consideration to the long term. My hope is to be able to keep barbarians out of our neighborhood.

Anyway, I see Congress as the key, but they will need help from the Courts and the executives, like State Governors and State Courts. And all of them will need the help of the People.
As a friend noted today when we talked, the people who created and carried through the American Revolution were not a large majority, in fact not even a majority, but, the call of Liberty can be very seductive, especially when you see injustice and tyranny growing rapidly.

Travis Bickle
Travis Bickle
  Swrichmond
March 1, 2024 10:26 am

Sadly mostly correct. See my earlier comment.

VOWG
VOWG
February 29, 2024 9:38 am

It is getting dangerous out there. Even heavily armed on a small sailboat would be dangerous.

formerly anonymous
formerly anonymous
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 10:31 am

Ray:
The problem is you rely on the benevolence of mother nature.
I spent 20 years working as a shipwright in Long Beach Ca. and used to bring sail boats back north to So. Cal. for rich people who would sail their boats south to all the major marinas on the Mexican Pacific. Instead of sailing back north they would fly home so there wives wouldn’t have to tack all the way back up against the wind and get sick and blasted with salt water spray . I raced in two Trans-Pacs, 85′ and 87′ Class B on a 50′ Santa Cruz “Allure”.
I also crewed many times on Roy Disney’s “Pyewacket”.
Sailing the seas is not romantic and being a live aboard takes an extremely unique individual. Upkeep on a vessel floating in saltwater is constant and expensive and pulling out to dry dock for repairs is many times not an option when traveling not to mention getting engine and rigging parts, sail repair etc… , does the vessel have a reverse osmosis desalinator? Those things need CONSTANT attention.
I admire your spirit but when collapse does happen your advice to take to the seas (especially for people with no boating experience) could end up get people killed.
The Sea always wants to kill you and it’s nothing personal and if the need arises to protect yourself with firearms, you are most likely in a situation that you are going to die anyway. Bullet holes below waterline? No thanks.
Be careful out there and good luck, I’ll take my chances on land.

formerly anonymous
formerly anonymous
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 10:58 am

Most of those live aboards are people that can’t afford rent or a mortgage and their boats are not seaworthy and the hulls are covered in barnacles and kelp. Most marinas only allow a certain percentage of live aboards because marinas would be overrun with these types if they didn’t.
I wouldn’t trade my experiences for anything or my respect for nature because of them, like I said, good luck.

wideguy
wideguy
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 6:26 pm

People used to live on houseboats anchored in the inter-coastal waterway around Ft. Lauderdale. They’d be easy pickins for my crew of pirates.
Heed the formerly anonymous poster’s advice.

anon a moos
anon a moos
  formerly anonymous
February 29, 2024 11:08 am

I’ve mentioned this before. There are two types of seas. One of water and one of lands. Both are hazardous and fraught with unforgiving dangers and peril but both can hide you, provide for you either in solo or as a small grouping.

I too have personally dreamed of, and nearly bought a motorsailer, dreaming of sunsets, anchors in tropical locales, fishing, diving… I luv the water. But…. As much as I long to do this my skills are better suited to the seas on land. In a SHTF scenario I’ll gather the grands and a few friends and we’ll set out into the sea of the deep forests. Here in british communista there are forests where you will find no other people, buildings or civilization in 200 miles in any one direction.

Bush craft, like sea craft, are invaluable tools and knowledge that are best when shared. There are no shortcuts to survival in either seas but both have their rewards.

wideguy
wideguy
  anon a moos
February 29, 2024 6:30 pm

You have survival skills like the aborigines who once lived in those same type of forests?

Your reward for the first year will be to have not too many of your party die

MartelsHammer
MartelsHammer
  formerly anonymous
March 2, 2024 2:46 pm

If you can hide out on the ocean for 3 months…..most of the land based folks will be dead. Communities/villages will form for self protection so I see the Sea Gypsy’s connecting with a coastal community and getting on with rebuilding. This is the time period Matt is exploring…..what does 10 years post collapse look like……can’t wait. I think if you have the skills the sea is much safer in the initial period but your points on the corrosiveness of salt water are well stated.

Swrichmond
Swrichmond
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 12:23 pm

“…it is FAR MORE dangerous ashore than at sea.”

That might be true now.

wideguy
wideguy
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 6:23 pm

My pirate ship will be able to dis-mast you and damage your rudder while sweeping the deck with .50cal fire, all long before your friend Glock and Sage are even nearly in range. We’ll be hoping you have lots of food on board, maybe some doubloons and pieces of eight!

formerly anonymous
formerly anonymous
  wideguy
February 29, 2024 6:41 pm

It’s De-mast.
Some pirate you are.

wideguy
wideguy
  formerly anonymous
March 1, 2024 1:49 pm
Swrichmond
Swrichmond
  wideguy
February 29, 2024 7:17 pm

…and women

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
February 29, 2024 10:27 am

Happy voyaging! At least I hope it will be happier than us land lubbers.

mark
mark
  Ray Jason
March 1, 2024 1:56 pm

The very best to you Ray…we all have our different situations, skill sets, attitudes, yada, yada, yada.

I bought my last stand land at 62 in 2012 and it has been a joy working it while turning it into a double gated farm/compound.

My wife got to build her dream home and I got to build/create my dreams on my last stand land.

I’m also a legacy planner for my family.

I did learn one 100k+ lesson…never, ever leave your wife alone with an architect…but happy wife…happy life…so there is always that.

Sail on Brother! Sail On!

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 29, 2024 9:14 pm

there is no escape fool! they will find you at sea as well. drones will easily do the job. And YES the upper echelon of elitists are 99.9% evil as demonstrated by their past and current deeds. How can that be refuted? It can be by fools I imagine.

you will be allowed to survive only under their conditions. stay and fight the good fight. it must be done sooner rather than later and for our species to survive. your choice is to die running from them, or to die challenging them head first. Only in the latter situation can you win.

good ruck

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Ray Jason
February 29, 2024 10:00 pm

satellites?? starlink?? spy whales?

Red Greenback
Red Greenback
  Anonymous
March 1, 2024 8:29 am

AI controlled, solar powered blimps.

Swrichmond
Swrichmond
  Ray Jason
March 1, 2024 8:42 am

“My Tribe would not be a high value target”

Prob not at first. Who are you trying to convince? But if shit really hits the fan, will there be weather reports? Will you stay in blue water in a small boat with no weather info? Will you use your radio and be found directionally (either when you broadcast, or when the radio is just receiving and someone else is using IF detection)? Where, when and how will you come ashore to reliably replenish food, water, medicines? Are there any doctors in your “tribe”? How long can you live on the supplies you can carry?

There are enough big holes in the idea to render it…silly.

Swrichmond
Swrichmond
  Ray Jason
March 1, 2024 1:34 pm

Best of luck to you

Stiks
Stiks
  Swrichmond
March 2, 2024 4:12 pm

All the modern stuff is not that old. Sea faring has been going on just fine for thousands of years without motors, electricity, or any of the things that would be missed by the modern soul. Just having charts and a good sextant and the tables, a good watch, and a keen eye will get you there. Been there done that with great success. It’s amazing how little you need. Water is the big deal. Takes some discipline to use as little as possible… just in case. I had 90 gals and did 20K ocean miles and never ran out. Left sF with 60 gals of diesel for my hand crank motor and had half that left after three years. The world was definitely different back then. Now you can e-mail ahead for port clearance. Back then we were lucky to get mail, ever.

Travis Bickle
Travis Bickle
March 1, 2024 10:05 am

Excellent piece! I am approaching 70 end of year (my own catastrophe!) but I am in good shape for old fart and, of course, never lost my critical thinking skills so never vaxxed and knew the MSM driven charade in early 2020. That said, instead of fleeing and living in a state of possible desperation for my remaining years, why don’t we or our defenders just start identifying and taking down the snakes head before the snakes kill us? I suspect it may be like the finale in Wizard of Oz. That’s an entirely defensive and just war proposition. Then, sailing can be just fun again and not a last chance for survival?

Htos1av
Htos1av
March 1, 2024 10:15 am

Nuclear powered vessels will negate all of that….and they’re NOT for sale.

Richard Ruggiero
Richard Ruggiero
March 1, 2024 1:20 pm

I’m living aboard a self-sufficient circumnavigation capable 47′ sailboat currently anchored in Miami where I run a major building demolition project. How can I network with like minded people living on boats?

Balbinus
Balbinus
March 1, 2024 1:49 pm

My white privilege. Paying taxes to support murderers and rapists being let into this nation, illegally.

Anon y mous
Anon y mous
March 1, 2024 4:53 pm

land-locked lubber here. I’ll just protect my family, home and neighborhood the best I can and trust Jesus.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 1, 2024 10:23 pm

Outfitted blue water cruising sailboats in the 40 to 50 foot range mono hulls and catamarans many were high end registered yachts .
I wish you and your tribe well and best of luck .
Just remember in a shit hit the fan moment catastrophic trouble at sea is compounded and deadly
Your tribe is dependent on weather reports and ability to call a MAYDAY
If things go that bad overall probably nobody’s listening .

nkit
nkit
March 1, 2024 10:35 pm

May this piece of music fill your sails when you need it to, Ray..Pay attention to “Nimrod.” Smooth sailing, my friend…

#9 (Adagi0) Nimrod

Johnny
Johnny
March 2, 2024 2:59 pm

Sounds great. If you sail. And want to be eaten by sharks when your boat sinks in a storm. And have no problem not bathing regularly. And enjoy immense sunshine (and skin cancer). Oh yeah, and can afford a sail boat and the time to learn to use it. These “brilliant” ideas to save humanity (or it’s freedom, or however you want to gloss it up) come from people ALREADY comfortable with money and ALREADY into the lifestyle (ie sailing). Sailing and kayaking and mountain trekking, etc. are activities enjoyed by upper middle and upper classes. By nature they are a privileged classes’ leisure activity – gussied up into a “survival mechanism” by the elites in that activity. Hilarious and disturbing they act as if they are put upon by other evil elites. I think most of us would rather pay rent and buy food with the money you spent on the boat, lessons, gear, time to learn to sail, and on and on. Call us slaves and “sheeple” all you want, sailor elites, we are more 21st century survivors than you are, swabbie.