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Quilotoa to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

The World's Smallest Boat? How Andrew Bedwell built his 100cm boat to sail across the Atlantic

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The World's Smallest Boat? How Andrew Bedwell built his 100cm boat to sail across the Atlantic

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Quilotoa to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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The World's Smallest Boat? How Andrew Bedwell built his 100cm boat to sail across the Atlantic - Practical Boat Owner
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Microyacht adventurer Andrew Bedwell tells Katy Stickland how he resurrected his Atlantic ocean world record challenge and has now built a new 100cm boat
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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    90 days forced to remain sitting or standing, wearing a dry suit that will reek of rancid BO, dirty butt and farts before the end of day one, unable to lay down to sleep. Unable to even have a shit if the sea state is too high and you can’t open the hatch without flooding the boat for a few days.

    Fuck. That.

    • ameancow@lemmy.world
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      When I take commercial flights across over an ocean, being stuck in one seat, unable to recline, dry lips and lousy food and uncomfortable bathrooms, for 8 - 12 hours, I hate life and have to find ways to disassociate my mind from how miserable the experience is and every time I swear I will either never go again or pay extra for first class.

      I cannot possibly imagine sitting upright in a half-sunken big-gulp bobbing in the water for three fucking months.

      • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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        But hey, no crying baby. The only cries you hear are your own.

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      This is taking masochism to a new level. He can, of course, do what he wants. But my god this is a dumb idea.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
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        Bro is larping the experience that many unfortunate Africans had some centuries back. For fun.

        I wonder how hard it would be to explain that to one those people, if you had some sort of magical telephone to history.

        Just explaining things to ppl from the 90’s would be pretty hard

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    100cm?

    No human would say that. Any real person would say 1m.

    Or if you’re a human USian, something like 1/2 fridge or 6 big gulps

    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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      100cm is a Baker’s yard.

    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah that’s clearly 1 000mm!

      Joke aside: I use mm in woodworking as a main unit because it’s my margin of error (±1mm). In this case cm makes sense for me

    • Lemmy World@lemmy.world
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      Nah that’s clearly a pair of franks and some change.

    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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      Half a bald eagle wingspan.

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    That’s not a boat, that’s a fishing bobber with extra steps.

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    That looks like a design of those narco u-boats

  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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    A boat that violently rolls and needs to be sealed up in a storm.
    It’ll be half-full of puke at the end.

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    I get this is an endurance test, but this sounds miserable. Not being able to lie down for 3 months would be awful.

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    it will just be like a great fairground ride

    Ok, if you say so Mr. Bones.

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    lol, practical boat owner my ass

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    Well. That’s a hobby that exists apparently.

  • Photonic@lemmy.world
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    This is ridiculous

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Hell no

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    It would start flying as I suffocate from my own farts trapped in this thing. Best way to die immo.

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    I thought Andrew got arrested! What’s he doing in the middle of the ocean in a tiny bo…OH!!! ahhh! i get it! It punishment! Clever!

    • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works
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      Weres the milk and honey?

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        I assume they will be adding a bee hive too.

  • LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe
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    Whoah small?!?

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    And then every photo’s a close-up.

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