I at least skim every SCA article that comes down the pike, but this one really landed with me. Several reasons:
- I also love small boats and adventure, and seeing people 'doing the most with least' is both inspiring and genuinely interesting.
- This is 'hacker mentality' in its purest form! Not the common 'unauthorized computer access' definition, but the broader 'intentionally doing things and using things in ways for which they were not intended' definition. The boat, the course, and the adventurers...all authentically hacked! (or wacked?)
- All kidding aside, this should serve to inspire people (like me) who make excuses for not doing more raid/adventure type events (like t200, OBX, the watertribe events, etc) due to the logistical challenges and or not having events close to where we live. "I need to buy or build a boat that's fit for purpose. I need 2 days to trailer the boat to <insert far place here>, and 2 days to get it back." blah blah blahl. Its all BS/excuses!
"I just need to find a local boat, a healthy dose of common sense and small boat skills/safety knowledge, a plane ticket, and a relentlessly positive punk rock attitude" < this is the way.
I hope more people do this (safely, for it can be done).
Hey hey hey, great read with me waking my Mrs. with LOL's. What else is nice are all the Youtubes of the event! Now to go back over those and find you guys - Josh, thanks for getting back out there in Texas for the 200. If it was a few years from now (and me being retired), knowing you would have been there - Chuck too - I might gotten my stuff together and been there. It would be nice to meet you all, who have inspired me so much. Rick thanks for saying Yes and... the write up.
@josh and @rick
I at least skim every SCA article that comes down the pike, but this one really landed with me. Several reasons:
- I also love small boats and adventure, and seeing people 'doing the most with least' is both inspiring and genuinely interesting.
- This is 'hacker mentality' in its purest form! Not the common 'unauthorized computer access' definition, but the broader 'intentionally doing things and using things in ways for which they were not intended' definition. The boat, the course, and the adventurers...all authentically hacked! (or wacked?)
- All kidding aside, this should serve to inspire people (like me) who make excuses for not doing more raid/adventure type events (like t200, OBX, the watertribe events, etc) due to the logistical challenges and or not having events close to where we live. "I need to buy or build a boat that's fit for purpose. I need 2 days to trailer the boat to <insert far place here>, and 2 days to get it back." blah blah blahl. Its all BS/excuses!
"I just need to find a local boat, a healthy dose of common sense and small boat skills/safety knowledge, a plane ticket, and a relentlessly positive punk rock attitude" < this is the way.
I hope more people do this (safely, for it can be done).
Thanks, Eric!
While a mere piker on the T200 having done it in 2008 the "right way", nonetheless I say with some experience, balls the size of planets!
Hey hey hey, great read with me waking my Mrs. with LOL's. What else is nice are all the Youtubes of the event! Now to go back over those and find you guys - Josh, thanks for getting back out there in Texas for the 200. If it was a few years from now (and me being retired), knowing you would have been there - Chuck too - I might gotten my stuff together and been there. It would be nice to meet you all, who have inspired me so much. Rick thanks for saying Yes and... the write up.