Couple sells all possessions for sailboat, sinks 2 days into trip

[clodoveo1]

I am so mad that they already raised 4k for their stupidity.

[Kev1972]

A 49 year old boat couldn't have cost more than $100. She could suck 2 guys off and buy another one.

[CHARBACK]

if hes 26 im 12

[Kev1972]

if hes 26 im 12

Maybe he's 49 and the boat is 26?

[Dasser]

hahahahahaha

[VoxExMachina]

Born in 1948: work your whole life, get married and make sacrifices, harbour a dream to someday retire & go bluewater sailing. Kids move out, sell your house and buy a boat. Do all the repairs yourself. Achieve your lifelong dream. Drink rum with people who have exactly the same dream as you, and bask in your glory. Drink to your success.

Born in 1998: buy a boat and sink it two days later.

To be fair, I think being an Uber driver for a few years is probably a lot tougher than working in the Kentucky Coal Mines all your life.

[yabbayabba]

To be fair, I think being an Uber driver for a few years is probably a lot tougher than working in the Kentucky Coal Mines all your life.

Being a mile down in the ground swinging a pick axe all day is nothing to the mental stress of following Google Maps all day.

[pUniCepts]

Disgusted at the criticism of these people who weren't afraid to get out there and live life. No doubt many of you are dissatisfied with your wage slavery and mocking their "failure" because failure is what you're afraid of, and why you settle for the life you have. It turns out they were not prepared, but at least they tried. We've all faced set backs in life. Sometimes we've had to ask for help to get back on our feet when it turned out we weren't ready, but that didn't mean we were failures. We are only failures when we stop trying.

[Coal Man]

Punycheeps going in hard with the baits lol

[KilaByte]

"Tired of working" at age 24 and 26.

Millennials gonna millennial.

So much this. Fking kids these days

[Bando]

mocking their "failure" because failure is what you're afraid of, and why you settle for the life you have.

I walk the line all the time. Last week I humbly unloaded a barbell on the safeties, got it up and loaded with 10lbs less to get my reps. But I have been squatting heavy for years and years, 5 years of competition, 5 trophies in my basement gym. The difference between me and them is I have a chance of succeeding, I've properly prepared myself, it's a calculated risk.

They haven't properly prepared for sailing. They haven't done the actual work, hell they don't even work. Dreams are fine, but these 2 are just a burden on society.

[MrBourbon]

Sometimes we've had to ask for help to get back on our feet when it turned out we weren't ready, but that didn't mean we were failures. We are only failures when we stop trying.

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Would you say they were trying tho? I can understand being prepared and failing anyway, but to plan to travel the world on $90, no preparation and no insurance is like they set themselves up to fail. What if this had happened at sea, and not in sight of land.

They tried to skip the "chasing your dream" part and skipping straight to the spoils.

Some people who drive an amazing car have worked hard to deserve something they want in life, but a lot of people driving cars like that are in debt up to their ears because they wanted the trappings of success without the hard work.



It should be telling that their first response in the face of their own mistakes is to ask strangers to pay for it.

[ErnieMccracken]

This seems ridiculous, but I don't blame anyone for desperately trying to get out of the rat race.

[JumpRopeNut]

Such is the life of bad luck Brian.

[VoxExMachina]

They were a couple of days away from being further out to sea and winning a Darwin Award.

[BowlingWizard]

Is there insurance for boats? Sailing is probably harder than it looks

[ANumber1]

Being a mile down in the ground swinging a pick axe all day is nothing to the mental stress of following Google Maps all day.

What about the unpaid "Emotional Labor" (TM) of being nice to passengers?

[MrBungle11]

Almost at $7000 now with even one person making a $1000 donation. Shows how much quicker you can get donations when it starts trending

[meenman83]

that dog looks like it wished it had gone down with the ship.

[Chazb0]

$6860 of $10,000 goal. Unbelievable.

At least they have some ACV to go along with their Aztec clay for beautiful skin.






Wait, Nevermind

[Vayne]

Is there insurance for boats? Sailing is probably harder than it looks

I believe most auto insurance providers have boat insurance. I had it through Nationwide.

[Tears]

LOL’ing at all the trolls ITT

[Bando]

Is there insurance for boats? Sailing is probably harder than it looks

Yes. I have srs doubts that anyone would have written a policy for them though. An underwriter would look at their criteria and be like GTFO

[97Camry4Lyfe]

If he's 26 then I'm like 2 years old lmao

[babel10]

inb4 they make a killing off their GoFundMe

Srs tho big websites like Fox, CNN, etc play financial God all the time. Sh!t like this happens every day, these people just got lucky a huge website decided to both publish their story as well as link their GoFundMe page.

This. They already hit the $7,000 mark on GoFundMe.

[meenman83]

Yes. I have srs doubts that anyone would have written a policy for them though. An underwriter would look at their criteria and be like GTFO

This plus I doubt they had their dream yacht up to standards judging by the aftermath polaroids

[aal04]

im donating to make sure they get another $90 and try again because I want to see them do funny chit again

[NuggzTheNinja]

In the old days, those people would just be...dead.

[TommyRO]

This is rock bottom, they will never be this stupid ever again

[JT11RTR]

If you want to see a couple doing this the right way check out this channel. The girl's pretty hot too.