What’s it like living on a boat? It’s definitely not for everyone. Life here is very free but with that freedom comes a lot of compromises. For one we don’t have endless electricity or water. We have to make our own using solar panels and a water maker or desalinator. This is good as on one hand you become very aware of power usage and being efficient and this also applies for water production and usage. To save water we use some of the world’s most efficient showerheads and also have a similar attachment for the end of our taps. These fittings aerate the water and make it feel as though you’re using more water after when in fact you’re using around .625 or 2lts per minute, which compared to the normal 10lt per minute shower head save you a lot of water. These small efficiencies are what we aim for when living on a boat as it’s all about using less while trying to do more. It’s why we love #Bitcoin as it’s also about freedom and being efficient with the storage of your time and energy. It’s also about where to focus that time and energy, how to spend it and how to use it. In the end it all comes down to Proof Of Work. If you’d like to know more about the fittings we use they’re made by a company in the US called Bricor. www.bricor.com

We’ve been in Vava’u Tonga for three days now. Arriving here was amazing. There was a 95% full moon and as we sailed around the northern shore of Vava’u we spotted three whales that were about 500ft or ten boat lengths away that were swimming directly at us. I shouted to my wife to start the engine, no I yelled furl the staysail, no I yelled again just watch the whales and tell me what direction they’re heading in then one whale broached about five boat lengths away in the moonlight is was something so surreal. Frightening at first as you are worried about colliding with them then after my racing mind settled we bear’d away to head in the same direction as they were swimming minimising the chances of coming into contact with them. In the end we got the engine started and also the watermaker. The watermaker is loud and as the pump on it is high pressure it makes a lot of vibration thru the hull. This we hoped would allow them to hear us and to keep away. It’s something people don’t think about much but colliding with objects at sea happens a lot and it can be fatal to the boat especially if the boats a monohull and if it’s something hard like a shipping container. In the end we arrived safely spending the first day anchored off the customs dock cleaning the boat up from the long passage to get here. Yesterday Monday we cleared in and became legal. Over the next few weeks we’ll explore this paradise and hopefully we’ll get to swim with the humpback whales that migrate here yearly to give birth to their calves. View over Neiafu harbour below 👇 and at sunset

A post from my wife ❤️ I love seeing her on Nostr helping to create the world we want to see. View quoted note →

After seven days at sea and 1300nm of sailing we’re 60nm ENE of Vava’u Tonga. Got 20-25’s off the stern and this old girl is surfing waves like a pro at pipeline! There’s nothing like crossing oceans on a performance sailing ⛵️ boat. It’s incredibly rewarding, it’s proof of work with salt added. This is the view off the back porch!

1700 local time, start of day 3 and we’ve done 380nm since departing Maupiti. Had a spectacular day with smooth seas a gentle 2m ground swell rolling through from the SW but light 8-12kts of wind just after of the beam. Boats going great and we expect this weather to continue for the next two days. Made some water this morning topping up the tanks and drinking water. Come Wednesday we’ll start to get some more harsh conditions with expected 25-35kts of breeze for the last two days run into Tonga. Proof of Sail ⛵️ #sailstr #sailing #travelstr #nostr

200nm run in the last 24hrs! Not too shabby for this old girl. We’re a day into our passage from Maupiti, French Polynesia to Tonga. Only 1042nm to go or roughly 5 days. If there’s one method of travel that’s proof of work it’s got to be sailing. Out here nothing is for free! #sailstr 😁 #travelstr

My wife trying to orange pill #mantaray in #maupiti while teaching them the power of the #hodl As they say #Bitcoin is for everyone 😁

Like the production of Bitcoin, entering the small pass into the beautiful lagoon that surrounds the spectacular island of Maupiti and climbing its tallest peak they require Proof Of Work!

One of my favourite weather apps is windy. It’s incredibly powerful and allows one to see up to date weather info at the push of a button. You can see cloud top temps to getting weather data on passage! Blows my mind how much sailing and weather forecasting has changed since I started living on boats as a kid in the 1980’s.

If you’re not cutting your own hair to stack sats do you really understand the value of #Bitcoin and storing your time and energy within it? #hairstr #stacksats

The one thing I learn as I get older is that Ghandi was right. We all need to “be the change we want to see in the world” and the beauty of #bitcoin #nostr and freedom tech is that it allows us to create that change and world ❤️ 🌎