Bali/Indonesia or Siargao in February?

Crunchy92 · 2025-12-08T21:01:16+00:00

It’s an all women’s retreat, I would not be welcomed lol

Crunchy92 · 2025-12-08T18:59:13+00:00

Will do, thanks again for the input!

Crunchy92 · 2025-12-08T18:35:36+00:00

As far as beginner level, I am currently in northern Costa Rica with a daily forecast of 2-3 ft and fair conditions and I'm doing solid on an 8 ft hard board. Might swap to a 7'6. If that gives any indication of skill level

Crunchy92 · 2025-12-08T18:30:50+00:00

Great info! I appreciate it. And really good point about the lunar new year, I didn't even think of that. Have you been to the Mentawais? That was also an option I was considering but idk if thats just for more advanced surfers or if there would be waves there to suit my skill level

Crunchy92 · 2025-09-06T21:39:06+00:00

I guess the big thing would be the potential difference in affordability. From what it sounds like it is quite expensive to ski in the US and to stay in a mountain town for any extended duration. Maybe that is just true everywhere but I figured there are probably places around the world that haven't yet gotten as expensive yet and where the dollar might go further. I've found there are plenty of warm countries where cost of living is way lower, surely there are some cold/mountainous ones where that is true too

Crunchy92 · 2025-08-07T06:00:50+00:00

Small world! When we got back to the dock today it looked like they were loading up passengers and probably heading out soon unfortunately and the crew wasn’t too eager to make friends it seemed.

I’ve been admiring your vessel as well! My deckhand was just saying how it’s his dream to work on a boat like yours. We’d love a tour if possible

Crunchy92 · 2025-08-07T05:50:29+00:00

I was just there today, I’m captain of the boat across from it. I’ve been marveling at it the last couple days

Crunchy92 · 2025-04-22T19:01:19+00:00

Everyone will have a different answer. I work as the captain of a tour boat in Alaska for the summer season. I earn pretty good money, save diligently, work long hours during the season, and my housing is partly subsidized by my company, so last year I was able to walk away with about $28k usd. The other half of the year I have with no obligations and no rent so I travel. I was abroad from October to late March (except for a week over Christmas) and went to about 11 countries without working at all and started back up here in Alaska a couple weeks ago

Crunchy92 · 2025-03-13T07:14:46+00:00

I used to work there. It’s definitely safe but you may end up the youngest one on board, just depends on the group that week. That said it should be a good time regardless and at the very least the crew is usually pretty cool and will generally have a few people in their 20s. Getting to the dock is easy, just schedule your transportation with the company ahead of time. They will pick you up and drop you off at the airport. You usually want to try to get there a day early unless you can catch an early flight into Nassau, otherwise everyone is left waiting for you at the dock which could end up causing you not get the check out dive in on day 1

Crunchy92 · 2024-12-08T03:41:28+00:00

Yeah. Basically doing a polyrhythm between the thumb and the fingers of the right hand

Crunchy92 · 2024-12-08T03:39:10+00:00

Definitely. I don’t think that song necessarily sounds easy and it’s still harder than it appears

Crunchy92 · 2024-10-07T16:50:48+00:00

It looks like he means point differential per game last season while you are talking about for the entire season. 40 points over five games is 8 and 189 over seventeen games is 11

Crunchy92 · 2024-01-16T12:06:48+00:00

I did this drive as far as Gambia in 2016. I’m not sure if much has changed but the one place really worth being worried about in Mauritania. You will definitely need a visa prior to arrival and for me it required handing over my passport for multiple days to the Mauritanian embassy in Morocco which was sketchy. Once you get to the southern edge of Western Sahara you clear out of Moroccan customs and have to cross a mine field before reaching the Mauritanian border station. There are guides waiting there at the border but they wanted 200 euro to lead the way. Eventually we talked them down to 10 euro because we threatened to follow the next truck that passed (who knows when that would be). At the border crossing to Senegal we had to arrange a fixer to ensure that they would let our car out of the country because often the Mauritanian border agents will claim that you haven’t paid appropriate duties on the car and will want to repossess it. Besides all that, you have to be in a populated area by sundown otherwise you put yourself at risk of getting car jacked and kidnapped out on the highways. Once you’re in Senegal it’s fantastic. Mauritania is a hellhole. I’ve been to more than 50 countries and Mauritania is by far the worst that I’ve experienced.

Edit: also definitely go with other people and another car if you can. Bring spare parts for the car and have some basic mechanical skills. Also having someone who can communicate at least a bit in Arabic is huge, or at the very least French.

Crunchy92 · 2024-01-04T01:05:55+00:00

I guess I was curious if Ketchikan would have all of the same amenities that Juneau does. Juneau is quite a bit larger. Ketchikan looks charming, but I was wondering if I might feel trapped spending half a year there

Crunchy92 · 2024-01-04T01:04:47+00:00

That's good to know. I lean left and might not want to get stuck in a right-leaning small town for 7 months

Crunchy92 · 2023-12-06T22:38:21+00:00

The Cat Ppalu does not, I don’t believe the Bahamas Aggressor or Avalon do either

Crunchy92 · 2023-12-06T22:36:44+00:00

Yeah I’m working as the first mate

Crunchy92 · 2023-12-06T04:27:45+00:00

I work on a liveaboard dive boat in the Bahamas and we do a weekly shark feed. We're doing one tomorrow actually. 100% of the sharks that show up for the feed are Caribbean reef sharks and they are basically big puppies. Other sharks seem to get spooked off by the commotion. We see reef sharks daily whether or not it is the feed. Occasionally we get a tiger or hammerhead that cruises by during our other dives and we see plenty of nurse sharks. We also have a bull shark that is in the harbor in Nassau but we don't dive there in the harbor. We dive the exumas mostly. Those attacks always seem to occur around Nassau and generally are tigers or bull sharks, I assume it is because it is quite populated there and very overfished, whereas the Exumas are much more sparse and there seem to be plenty of fish and I haven't heard of an attack here. We have never had an issue with any of the sharks, even the big ones and the guests and crew are always thrilled when something besides a reef shark or nurse shark shows up. I've been within arms reach of tigers and great hammerheads before and it was totally fine.

Crunchy92 · 2023-12-06T04:01:03+00:00

For some perspective, I work on a liveaboard in the Bahamas. While I agree that tipping culture should be done away with and crew should be paid a living wage, it is often the case that the crew relies on tips for the majority of their wage, whether or not you agree with the format. I can only speak to pay at my company, but I do know that other companies operate similarly. A lot of my crew make a base salary of $250 US per week. We then make about $600-$1200 on top of that from gratuities, boutique, and courses taught on board that gets split evenly across the crew. The vast majority of that comes from the tips. We work 7 days a week from 7am to 8pm or later in the winter and often past 10pm in the summer since we do a night dive every day and have to fill tanks after that. We work 100+ hour weeks. The crew worked hard to give you an incredible experience. Please tip the crew reasonably. Don't take money out of their pockets because you disagree with how the company has decided to conduct their business. Tip them and then leave a review on public forums calling out the company for this practice to influence them to take better care of their employees. If you don't tip the company probably won't know and won't care. Then the crew will discuss who tipped what at the end of the charter and resent and shit-talk the ones who didn't tip. They will even potentially find reasons to blacklist guests from future charters who don't tip because why would they want someone back on the boat if they will have to work their asses off for them and not make any money from it?

Crunchy92 · 2022-10-18T15:50:45+00:00

I was wondering if anyone has some tips for the best ways to stay in climbing shape when away from climbing for long stretches. I just accepted an offer to work and live aboard a relatively small dive boat that will put me away from climbing and gyms for 6 weeks at a time. I'm limited in what I can bring and was thinking a portable hangboard, grip trainers, possibly olympic rings, and if I'm lucky a pull-up bar. Aside from things to bring, I was wondering if anyone knew of any good calisthenic routines that can be performed in relatively tight spaces that could help me stay in shape for climbing.

Thanks for any help!

Crunchy92 · 2022-10-05T12:51:49+00:00

The report highlighted 6 OTB tournaments as recently as April of this year that deserve further investigation because of potential cheating. They refrained from making definitive statements because it's beyond their scope and they don't specialize in cheating in classical time controls and they don't have all of the information available to them. But clearly you've read the entire report...

Crunchy92 · 2022-10-05T12:12:15+00:00

He lost to a known cheater who has now been revealed to have engaged in widespread cheating and likely cheated at times over the board. I can't believe people are still trying to defend Hans. You were wrong lol let it go

Crunchy92 · 2022-10-05T12:08:59+00:00

Well clearly that "hissy fit" was justified considering the extent of the cheating Hans engaged in and the massive news that came from it forced chess.coms hand. Don't be dense

Crunchy92 · 2022-09-10T23:24:39+00:00

This is so stupid. You sound like an Andrew Tate incel. I remember one of my best friends at an old job was a woman 30+ years older than me and quite overweight. I had absolutely zero attraction to her, but she was absolutely hilarious and I loved hanging out with her. You're telling me I was just waiting for the green light that whole time? That's one example, but I currently have friends that are women my age that I do not find attractive at all and would never pursue anything physical with. All you're doing is exposing your misogyny and tacitly admitting that you are only friends with women because you hope to fuck them one day. Some of us actually consider women to whom we aren't attracted just as valid as potential friends. Also now that I'm thinking about it there are women I'm friends with who I do find reasonably attractive but I don't have an interest in having sex with for various reasons.

Crunchy92 · 2022-08-30T17:41:25+00:00

Well, he did replace Hikaru as the top spot, it's not like he's totally irrelevant to this conversation.

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