La vids es aci (Life is so).
My creative plate cant be any fuller. I’m working on the new TMS (The minimalist sailor) film, book, website, and the new face of Project BlueSphere. The plan is to spin Project BlueSphere into a venue that will unite sailors around the world through a multi-lingual social networking platform. I also want to offer low-bandwidth technology (compressed email & weather) for cruising sailors and provide an inspirational space (Words, Pictures, and video) for them to share their adventures and lives upon.
I’m going to focus my efforts on educating sailors and potential cruisers on the benefits of voyaging and living on less through the new (not yet launched) TMS website. My team and I refer to The Minimalist Sailor as “TMS”, and Project BlueSphere as “PBS”.
I really feel that I stumbled through a hidden doorway of the matrix back in 2003 and have been living a privileged lifestyle for the past decade. I’m seeing a definite trend of younger 
cruisers with little financial means and I love it. I want to support it, nurture it, and make it a real possibility for interested people.
The hardest part of “unplugging” is the psychological one. Leaving everything you have been told to be true your entire life behind and living simple, healthy, and happily in the world, despite western thinking and the boarders it has created. No more running on a hamster wheel, no more social or religious guilt, and no more boarders. I believe in a better, free, and less-complicated world. I know its not for everybody, but it is for the ones who dare believe in it.
Living as I do is not easy. It requires dedication and hard work. Yes, there is plenty of time spearfishing and strolling down beautiful beaches, but it also involves being in a hot engine room in 15’ seas, nauseous, burnt, and exhausted. It also means giving up luxuries like climate control, a car, cable television, hot showers, an over-stuffed couch and so on. Is it worth it? Well that’s for you guys to decide. One thing I hate about sailing magazines is the editors don’t approve the real stories because they are in the business of selling the dream and the expensive boats and gear associated with it. Would I trade the itch & burn of fiberglass on my skin for a 9-5 job, not on your life. I’ve just finished a complicated 3 day fiberglass project and I’m going to reward myself with some spearfishing and beach-strolling time with my girlfriend. I like being in control of my own time.
If I don’t stir up any charters in the next week or so I may head back to Linton for the holidays. I’m really in need of some decent bandwidth to make my digital universe and plans a reality.
If you need to burn a few minutes on a new idea check out what Jacque Fresco is doing at http://www.thevenusproject.com/ .
“The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation
in which human beings, technology and nature will be able to
coexist in a long term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium”
I dig it!
Cheers.
– alex