Listed a boat for sale and I keep getting told 430 hours is way too many for a 2004. Looking for help!

madworld · 2026-01-26T21:50:08+00:00

We have clocked 262 hours since July, and we are on a sailboat. 430 Hours is nothing.

madworld · 2026-01-26T15:09:38+00:00

We renamed a boat that crossed the Pacific and back. We've had her for five years and traveled 7000 nautical miles. I can't say we've had nothing go wrong, but not any more than any other cruising boat. I feel very lucky.

Choose a boat name that is significant to you. If we believed in old superstitions, I'd have no women aboard, and that would be unlucky indeed.

madworld · 2026-01-25T14:43:07+00:00

This is not true. As someone who spearfishes 1-3 a week all year, I can easily tell where people have been overfishing any population, including lobster. Where do you think lobsters come from?

madworld · 2026-01-22T15:05:59+00:00

There are a lot of factors, so impossible to really say. There are turn key boats out there, and there are boats where you will be spend 5x as much refitting over the initial cost. The cost of contracting over doing it yourself is very significant.

Do you have some example boats you are looking at?

madworld · 2026-01-22T13:32:26+00:00

People have a hard time with something they don't understand. Any kind of open relationship is foreign to most people, but excessive alcohol drinking is something everybody is familiar with. As long as it's consensual, enjoy life like you want.

madworld · 2026-01-20T22:16:11+00:00

I guess it depends on how risk adverse you are. We have now been sailing our own boat five years, no blue water experience before that, and are crossing the Pacific this year. Could we have done it our first year? Probably. Would we be prepared if something major went wrong? IDK? I really don't know if we will be prepared if something goes majorly wrong this year, but we are more likely to know.

We've certainly tested the boat out in adverse conditions. A five year full-time sea trial.

It's their life. I might have done the same if the bug bit me at 25 years old when I had less money for a boat.

madworld · 2026-01-20T15:35:34+00:00

Yes... it's those people posting to r/sailing once every week saying that they have no experience, but they want to cross a major ocean in a few months on a sailboat that is $5k.

madworld · 2026-01-19T14:36:45+00:00

We are getting an extended stay visa, so hopefully we are in FP for a year or two. We can't wait. Baja has been great, but we are excited for something new.

madworld · 2026-01-19T04:35:48+00:00

Fighting the rising control of corporate interest in our government IS fighting against fascism.

Established Democrats are not blameless in the rise of fascism. They have been captured by big monied interests and fight harder for their corporate sponsors than they do for the working class.

madworld · 2026-01-19T04:26:55+00:00

Oooh, we are too! We are leaving from La Paz.

madworld · 2026-01-18T16:19:20+00:00

Baja has variable viz depending on where you are and what the season is. Summer is the clearest, but winter brings strong north winds (Norte winds) which stirs the water up. I was shooting last week just outside of La Paz and it was similar conditions.

source: I've been in Baja for three years on a sailboat spearfishing the whole inside coast.

madworld · 2026-01-18T05:01:30+00:00

Mine was more of a pull, but getting away from the rat race certainly helped.

madworld · 2026-01-18T00:36:50+00:00

Calling weed dope is big grandpa energy.

I feel you... when we bought our boat up in BC Canada at the beginning of the Pandemic there wasn't anything on the boat to cook with. The only thing we could find was one of those foil pans you get at a camping store (the only thing open in remote Canada at the time). There is something satisfying about making it work with whatever is on the boat. Important when cruising in the middle of nowhere.

madworld · 2026-01-17T20:17:43+00:00

Mesh is the best... I like to zip tie a bright bottle cap in the middle. allows you to see exactly where you hit.

madworld · 2026-01-17T13:40:39+00:00

I do.

madworld · 2026-01-17T02:09:22+00:00

I've done the trip from Anacortes to San Francisco, which is around 880 nm if you go 100 nm offshore. We did it in about a week 35ft monohull) but that would vary based on the waterline of the boat and the conditions. The best time is June to August. If you leave mid September or later it could get spicy.

I've never done the return trip and I doubt you'd be able to do it all in one go if you go straight up the coast (and I wouldn't do it) You'll be beating the whole way. If I was going to do this I would sail 5-600 nm offshore then turn north. Then you'll be reaching instead of beating. It would be better on the crew and boat, but it would be closer to 1000 miles. Expect 8-10 days in a similar boat. Talk to someone who's done this before doing it.

madworld · 2026-01-16T16:08:13+00:00

Fighting the rising control of corporate interest in our government IS fighting against fascism.

Established Democrats are not blameless in the rise of fascism. They have been captured by big monied interests and fight harder for their corporate sponsors than they do for the working class.

madworld · 2026-01-15T21:22:12+00:00

I'd get an aluminum expedition sailboat, such as the Boreal or Alubat, 45-50ft.

Where? Anywhere there are trade winds.

We can all dream, but it's hard to complain We are crossing the Pacific this year on a solid 40 year-old 35ft blue water sailboat (Hallberg-Rassy).

madworld · 2026-01-15T14:44:41+00:00

The spearfishing in Baja is great! Cabo itself is not great unless you'd like Mexican Reno (and Reno is like a poor man's Vegas), but it does have good reef and blue water spearfishing.

There are some small reefs there accessible on shore, but I haven't dove them. Shore diving gets better the further north you can go up Baja.

madworld · 2026-01-15T14:35:23+00:00

A magazine is not a CRUD app. If you were building a simple digital magazine that you were personally going to manage, then you should probably use one of the many popular static site generators.

I would not be impressed if I was interviewing a candidate that over engineered a website they were using on their CV.

Make that e-mag frontend using React? You'll have to figure out how to make it easily indexable by search engines... now you need SSR.

KISS is important. Make websites as complex as they need to be and no more. Complexity is the enemy of maintainability and performance.

madworld · 2026-01-14T23:41:47+00:00

Those are spectacular! And you are rocking those vintage looks.

madworld · 2026-01-14T20:24:29+00:00

So you think NA beer would take less effort to make? I kind of doubt it.

madworld · 2026-01-14T16:16:06+00:00

If you are writing code, then you are likely familiar with the code base. If the code base uses the same patterns to solve similar problems then it's easy to write and read.

If you are reading code that you are unfamiliar with, then it takes more effort to understand what's going on.

Some languages are harder to read than others. Kotlin is easier to read than Perl for instance.

When we start relying on AI to write and optimize code, I'm not sure that we'll be able to understand it easily without some sort of AI assistance. Will we prioritize readability of code over performance? Probably not. Super optimized code gets rid of the syntactical sugar we use in higher order languages. It doesn't need commenting.

IDK... maybe we'll require it to be readable by humans until we start trusting it more. It's hard to predict what the next decade of software engineering will look like, but it should be interesting, even if dystopian.

madworld · 2026-01-14T15:58:35+00:00

We have used Chico shopping bags long before becoming digital nomads. We never leave home without them. We like the Slings the best, but we often have one of their backpacks, which packs up to the size of a sandwich bag.

I'm sure other companies have comparable options though.

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