Thread: Boat Hitchhiking

Boat Hitch Hiking

Could be a good read. I'm pretty warey of eBooks though, since anybody can publish some useless weekend-write-up.

I tried to bum a 6 hour boat ride once, but the guys didn't seem down with the idea.

see my future posts, I've got plenty of friends whom have crossed atlantic and pacific

I got the ebook anybody want it?

Sure, why not? I'd much appreciate it, and it might be pretty good. I'll at least give it at read at some point.
stickbugg<at>gmail<dot>com or a link in PM or a filepost on the board would be great.

Originally Posted by stove

see my future posts, I've got plenty of friends whom have crossed atlantic and pacific

I'm almost done building my time-traveling machine, so I will soon jump ahead to those posts you will make in the future!
Would it be alright to comment on them here in the past?

sure. while you're at it, can you build a battery for ,my notebook which lasts long enough for me to MAKE these future posts in the present?

I boat hitch all the time. I live on a landlocked piece of coast, work in aquaculture and on small ships, and get rides everywhere. Some trips get right fucking wild, and some get right fucking dangerous. You might be amazed what asking around the docks can do....it can go either way sometimes.

Originally Posted by dirtyfacedan

I boat hitch all the time. I live on a landlocked piece of coast, work in aquaculture and on small ships, and get rides everywhere. Some trips get right fucking wild, and some get right fucking dangerous. You might be amazed what asking around the docks can do....it can go either way sometimes.

Dirty D, where are you at? I've gathered you're somewhere in Canada, but that's about it.

I live near Vancouver BC, about 6 hours away. To get to Vancouver, i need to take 3 ferries. So riding with someone else is sometimes easier.

Sorry bout that. Here ya go: Monkey Protection

maybe you know how to reach reunion island or mauritus from india?

Originally Posted by jade02

Sorry bout that. Here ya go: Monkey Protection

So what did you guys think of the book?

It was ok. At first I thought all the stuff was really obvious, but then it dawned on me it was just really practical, and stuff I wouldn't have bothered to think about. Kinda like a little thing you link people to when they are new to a message board and post something like "FREE BOAT RIDES?!!?" with a single question like "Hey guys, I heard about going on boats, HOW DO I DO IT?!?!?!" In other words, a mere introduction.

you could learn to crew, some small boat clubs need volunteers to help with work parties in the boat yard, they would teach you things like knots and simple tides and helmsmanship. you might even blag a few free courses from their club instuctor and have somthing on paper.

then you would be snapped up as crew for a free ride and coukd even get paid for it. just choose where you want to go, make friend in port, buy a few drinks and be freindly and you will make contacts, it's like growing a seed.

youm could travel the world if you have enough time. you could blag training of people in you are helpfull.

if the posh boat clubs arnt interested go for the average joe boat clubs and if they arnt interested go and see the party boaters.

I've been considering trying this sort of thing from Nanaimo onto the mainland for a little while now, but I don't really know how viable that would be. Any idea Dan? I'd assume it would be easier for a small town to small town/random island in the middle of nowhere type of thing. Oh, and hi everybody, I'm new.

It's hard to bum a ride in most instances, it's best to barter your way on board. I've worked on boats for rides.

Now that I'm in Thailand, I've met a few folks living on boats, willing to take along others for 'the right trade'. Sometimes it's cash, ass, grass, work, cooking...friendship, a party, w/e. It's like an advanced form of hitch-hiking, you've got to learn your audience well.

Twice I've had tug-boats offer me rides on the Mississippi, but I was already where I wanted to be. They just weren't used to seeing anyone where I had set up camp. Once I traded a couple of fresh catfish for soft-drinks and a gallon of water. Didn't have to boil that night, which was cool.

Hey, does anyone still have that e-book? Would love to take a look at it

my sister and i were thinking of different ways we could travel for our next excersion coming up.... weve both hitched for years now and shes not a fan of hopping freight... but volunteering to be on a boat crew for a ride sounds fucking awesome... never thought of it before, only thought of sneaking on trash boats... great post

ive hitched one boat, well it was a jet ski. there was a guy on the docks drinking beer i asked him for a ride to this island in the middle of the colombia river, he said he was too buzzed to operate his boat but hed take me on his seadoo. it was scary we almost sunk and my cat i was traveling with clawed the shit out of me.

I have two experiances with this.. first times me and a couple of mates were up in port douglas (north of cairns, QLD, AUS) and decided we wanted to try. It was easy as shit. me and old mate went down to the marina and just sat there smoking and staring at fish becuase the gate was locked. then this bloke came over and enquired as to what e were doing, I told him what the go was, and we talked for a bit. it turned out we grew up in the the same small as town and. he said he'd take us out if we just got our own food, learnt how to sail while we were onboard and cooked. so we dumpstered heaps of food, stole some more, bought some goon, and of we toddled. we ended up being grotty yachties for like 2 weeks and going to all these mean as island and snorkeling, and he constantly got me blazed and tuaght me how to sail.
good on ya Simon!!

second experiance. trying from darwin (Aus) to indoneasia, found a bloke named haggis who said we could ride if we fixed his boat. spent nearly 2 months fixing his riging and puting up a brand new boom and all (learnt shitloads).
then 2 weeks before we were going to leave a cyclone sunk the freshly sea worthied boat.
haggised.