I bought this 1979 Morgan 382, sailing boat at the age of 23, I'm 24 now
with only seven days of sailing experience on January 18 2016 I boarded a plane in
Kansas City and flew to South America with just over a thousand dollars to my
name in a backpack full of camera gear how did I go from living out of a
-backpack to owning a boat that's a good question
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so tell me about this
experience December 2015 was one of those "life is really hard" months
yes, I'm familiar with those I've had those myself
moving forward I felt as if I
only had two options the first option was to continue down the road that I had
digressed into I tried to look at the long-term consequences and see where the path would lead
what did you see at the end of it
it seemed that it went down a
dark road of depression and inevitably ended in suicide
did you have any other options?
the other option was to stop bitching and moaning get outside and do
new things for me it's a tough love honesty and courage to get myself out of
a depressive state but by far the most important thing was to actually be doing
things but everybody is different if you feel like you need help definitely talk
to somebody and find a goal to strive towards but what worked for me was the
call to adventure I travel had two plane ticket to South America using credit
card rewards I embraced the Vagabond in Paraguay Argentina Chile again in
Argentina back over to Chile in the north to Peru shooting photos of hostels
along the way couchsurfing in the occasional roadside campsite were the
methods that I use to keep my cost down the whole time creating videos and
walking into debt, credit card debt I got
which is actually a place that I lived previously for about three months I
bought a ticket in left South America from Lima Peru to New York City I got to
the city and I paid for a shared room in a three-bedroom apartment in bed-stuy
Brooklyn yeah I'm living with quite a few people and one of them almost got
like sexually assaulted this morning while there were still other of us in
the apartment we had the other stop did for $750 on credit I then realized that
the opportunity it disappeared
I was low
I am negative money's no direction but I had a strong will the sacred
stubbornness the American spirit and the refusal to give up AMBITION
I went to Massachusetts and I worked on a fishing boat squid fishing in one week I made
$1,800 I borrowed some money from my mother and then I purchased for $2,000
my van Glady
I then converted said van for 3,000 credits
do you hear that?
it's the call to go west manifest destiny
back when I was in Maine I filmed Capt'n Mike's tiny house cabin in the forest in Maine and that
spawned alternative living spaces which I relentlessly filmed while I explored
which I relentlessly filmed while I explored the United States of America
and eventually down to Baja Mexico in
October of 2016 I worked as a migrant worker and I earned about $3,000 which
floated me into 2017 and on January 2nd of 2017 I posted this video
which made January 2017 the first month in my life that I had made more on my
own than I had spent I was officially a working artist with less than one day
sailing experience I decided that in the summer of 2018 I was gonna sail the
Mediterranean so I took to Reddit to ask for any help that I could possibly get
towards realizing this vision because I had zero idea what to do
I received some helpful links, a realistic cynical comment, and some dude
that was trying to sell me his boat from halfway across the planet that I kind of
dismissed as like totally a scam. I went down to Mexico and I got scuba certified
and I gained probably about six hours of sailing experience.
Still confused as to how I was gonna be able to afford a sailboat in the Mediterranean.
I just booked a four hundred square foot suite on a 14-day transatlantic cruise from
Miami Florida to Barcelona Spain.
That ship was leaving on April 22nd whether I was on it or not.
Quick aside about transatlantic cruise ships, also known as repositioning cruises,
is, counter to popular belief,
they are actually like a super affordable option to get yourself across
the planet especially whenever you consider the amount of days that is
included as far as goes as lodging and food. Anyway, I created a crew call.
I'm looking for two team members to come aboard the ship.
I flew down to Florida and I took a five day sailing course with Reef Runner Sailing.
Tara and Jackson were chosen and they met me down in Miami Florida
on just about three weeks notice
without a boat secured we boarded the ship that was
going to take us across the Atlantic Ocean to Barcelona over the next 14 days.
We bonded rapidly as we took advantage of our days on the water and
actually about a week before we arrived in Barcelona we secured a boat and we
actually secured the boat from the Reddit post that I posted back in
February for $10,000 which is a third of the original proposed price.
On arrival in Barcelona on May 6 2018 we disembarked the cruise ship and we
boarded our new home, this sailing vessel.
We paid Andre, sorted some paperwork, we sailed, repaired the boat, and renamed the boat.
And then, voila. Floating Orb Productions, Inc. was the
official owner of this 1979 Morgan 382 sailing vessel named Arianrhod.
And that's how I went from living out of a backpack
to owning a boat and sailing the Mediterranean!