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Vimeo Video about Simply Living Aboard

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Simple. Living. Aboard a Boat from Schooner People on Vimeo.

Being close to nature, living a simple life, enjoying a close-knit community, having the opportunity to travel worldwide with your boat–these are among the reasons to enjoy living aboard a boat. Having an “anywhere” location-independent lifestyle, we really enjoy living aboard.

Recently, we have heard a disturbing number of untrue, negative statements–stereotypes–of liveaboards. What is most disturbing is that we’re observing bias in the attitudes of local public policy makers and enforcement agencies. Americans who are choosing to live a simple life aboard are marginalized by the towns and cities they take harbor in.

We decided to put together a little video with a few of our fellow “live aboard” boaters who identify themselves as: cruisers, voyagers, liveaboards and simple living advocates. We think you’ll agree with us–we are ordinary people, just like you, and if you care about the earth, the environment, and having a real community, then, living aboard–and voyaging aboard–a boat is a wonderful thing to do!

The video may be seen on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/52324027

Or on YouTube the video is here: http://youtu.be/h5DwDL8zgSI

Canoes, International Affairs, & the Warm Heart I’ll Always Remember

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Today, David’s father, Bob, passed away. We sit here in silence thinking of him–his laughter, his love, discussions of international affairs, and the countless days of wilderness canoe trips we had the pleasure of spending with him. We’ll write more, a better tribute to everything about Dad. But today a couple pictures. A young Bob on a canoe trip with his father observing the logging at Curtain Falls (Ontario, Canada in the wilderness that is now the Quetico Provincial Park) in 1943. A much more mature Bob, in 2001, on his last long wilderness trip–paddling with a young friend, Nina, and supervising David in the camp-kitchen cooking breakfast.

The Quetico 1943
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Dad Paddling With Nina 2001
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Supervising Breakfast in the Quetico 2001
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Labels of Simple Living and Voluntary Simplicity

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So what’s in a name? How do we describe our life afloat?

I really think that one of the great things about living aboard a boat and cruising is that we can choose a lifestyle that is close to nature, simple, and sustainable from a personal and environmental perspective. There’s actually a name for this kind of lifestyle, for those who live on land rather than aboard a boat. It is called Voluntary Simplicity. The amazing thing is that many, if not most of the cruisers and liveaboard boaters out there are living simply or further choosing voluntary simplicity as a life philosophy but without really know of there’s a descriptive term for both. They’re just living it. Many have embraced this life wholeheartedly–knowing that it is right for them yet not knowing about the “others” out there. Interesting.

Here’s a great blog post about what voluntary simplicity is NOT. Link

Here’s a blog post that I wrote on this topic a couple months ago on our “other” blog (that blog is about working while cruising). Link

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