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Jan Van Hunks
The legend


Registered: 12/25/16
Posts: 26
Loc: The seven seas
Last seen: 6 months, 24 days
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Sailing the high seas
#23995406 - 01/09/17 02:27 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have been raised and living on the seas for most of my life. I had had fishing boats, charter boats, house boats. I have gone years of my life only stepping foot on dry land for hours at a time.
I have traded and bartered my way along coastlines of countries and continents. I have lived a true and right vagabond pirates life. I have done good when I can, and have always fashioned myself as a chivalrous hedge knight of sorts of the oceans. At least in my head. I have played the archetype well for years, and with flourish and style.
I have learned so much from all you good folks here over the years, reading and printing things out. I've build my own 3 ring binder bible of mushroom knowledge. Living the lifestyle I choose and getting older and caring much less or not at all for authority, I have been growing for myself for decade or so now. Things like mushrooms and peyote are too precious of a commodity for ones soul to not have when you truly need them. Depending on where in the world I am, they may not exist in places I can find.
I have recently slowed down on the labor of my life and have actually gone digital. Something I had sworn I would never do. So here I am shroomery! Come sail the high seas with Jan Van Hunks and see if you can out smoke the devil better than myself!
-------------------- When you see the clouds on table mountain, you'll know we're at it again.
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filthyknees
no coincidence


Registered: 03/08/13
Posts: 6,283
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Welcome!
-------------------- But if you're in a hurry, and really got to go If you're in a hurry, might have to find out slow That it's one thing to try and another to fly You get there quicker just a step at a time It's one thing to bark, another to bite The show ain't over till you pack up at night
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Roflspammer
Friend



Registered: 12/05/12
Posts: 1,921
Loc: New Hampshire
Last seen: 6 hours, 59 minutes
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How do you make money and stay afloat? My end goal in life seems to be where you started
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Thayendanegea
quiet walker



Registered: 02/20/12
Posts: 7,596
Loc: 7 Lodges Nation
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Welcome!!! What port do you call home?
-------------------- Look Deep Into Nature,and Then You Will Understand Everything Better. Albert Einstein
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Jan Van Hunks
The legend



Registered: 12/25/16
Posts: 26
Loc: The seven seas
Last seen: 6 months, 24 days
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I have saved money and pinched pennies and rarely wasted it. Eat lots of fish hahahahaha.
I work when I feel like it now just to add padding for repairs and things. Mostly private charter stuff. couples going to remote island here or there.
I officially have no land to call my own, not do I want any. I've given myself to the sea. Today's technology allows me to connect when I'm near shore or docked for a day or two, anywhere that has wifi lets me connect to whatever I want. Sorry but I've just updated from a windows me laptop that had never done anything except book keeping to a damn tablet laptop keyboard fucking thing, and a smarter than me phone.
I've seen South Afrika for a few months awhile back, part of the reason I actually made the decision to become a participating member here. thats a whole other story though, more appropriate for the trip report are.
I been heading back north for awhile, fishing a bunch. skirting the coastline back up towards Morocco, Portugal, Spain and the whole Mediterranean are for the summer.
Tips, if you wanna live this life toughen the fuck up, accept death, accepting reality and pragmatism are absolutes in your life or you lose it, this WILL cause many people to not like you. Solitude must be a comfort beyond people. Your boat is you, it is you mother and your child. Defend it at all costs and nurture it and take care of it. There IS magic in the world, you simply need to look for it.
-------------------- When you see the clouds on table mountain, you'll know we're at it again.
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Jan Van Hunks
The legend



Registered: 12/25/16
Posts: 26
Loc: The seven seas
Last seen: 6 months, 24 days
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Back to dry land for a bit again. Been a crazy few months. Got shot at in October.
I'm going to be heading south soon, it's getting cold in the North.
-------------------- When you see the clouds on table mountain, you'll know we're at it again.
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HamHead
Hard Ass Motherfucker



Registered: 03/17/15
Posts: 6,107
Loc: Galactic sector ZZ9 Plura...
Last seen: 2 years, 9 months
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Nice to see you!
Was it pirates?
That would be so cool to have a Shroomery member that's actually been shot at by REAL pirates!
-------------------- The Italian researchers’ findings, published by the INT’s scientific magazine Tumori Journal, show 11.6% of 959 healthy volunteers enrolled in a lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020 had developed coronavirus antibodies well before February. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-timing-idUSKBN27V0KF This online first version has been peer-reviewed, accepted and edited, but not formatted and finalized with corrections from authors and proofreaders https://www.icandecide.org/
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Jan Van Hunks
The legend



Registered: 12/25/16
Posts: 26
Loc: The seven seas
Last seen: 6 months, 24 days
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Re: Sailing the high seas [Re: HamHead]
#25131193 - 04/11/18 03:49 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Not pirates just some prick who thought in open water you can do what you want to others with no repercussions.
I had a patch of bad weather for awhile and lost a lot of the things I had living/growing on the boat here.
Lost my bags to moisture beyond my control. I have sealed doors below deck but with major storm there is only so much you can do.
Lost a few cacti, which hurt. I had 3 bridges cactuses for almost 3 years with me on Deck and in my quarters, gone to rot.
I have been tempting the idea of crossing the pond and heading up to Iceland and Greenland and then Canada. The America's scare me a little, I do not think I will be going in American Waters if I head that way, not sure yet, that's next year's tentative plan.
-------------------- When you see the clouds on table mountain, you'll know we're at it again.
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HamHead
Hard Ass Motherfucker



Registered: 03/17/15
Posts: 6,107
Loc: Galactic sector ZZ9 Plura...
Last seen: 2 years, 9 months
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Too bad about your growing things. I recently bought an RV and lost some house plants in the move, so I can sorta relate.
Glad to see you made it through the tough weather. Are you alone out there, or do you have anyone for company? I can't imagine being out at sea during rough weather.
-------------------- The Italian researchers’ findings, published by the INT’s scientific magazine Tumori Journal, show 11.6% of 959 healthy volunteers enrolled in a lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020 had developed coronavirus antibodies well before February. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-timing-idUSKBN27V0KF This online first version has been peer-reviewed, accepted and edited, but not formatted and finalized with corrections from authors and proofreaders https://www.icandecide.org/
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Jan Van Hunks
The legend



Registered: 12/25/16
Posts: 26
Loc: The seven seas
Last seen: 6 months, 24 days
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Re: Sailing the high seas [Re: HamHead]
#25146533 - 04/17/18 07:55 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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I do private charter runs when I want. When I was young I wanted to be a bush pilot in the Arctic or Australia or Egypt. The man flying Indiana Jones around.
When I was 10 or so my family has to fly to the Philippines for a funeral. I found I cannot fly. I do not like being high up and caged in like that. When I was older my father showed me that sailors were pilots of the seas and that sense of adventure has kept me on decks more than dirt.
There have been a few ladies over the years, you can't own a boat and not have women giving you their fantasy, even if your not fantastic haha. I can fake it sometimes for a night. Live it up
Not as glorious as it seems, but beautiful in its own way.
-------------------- When you see the clouds on table mountain, you'll know we're at it again.
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d0urd3n
Just call me "D"

Registered: 09/15/10
Posts: 5,237
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Welcome to the Shroomery!
Any pictures of your ship? You have solar panels or anything? Really curious about your setup.
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Inflaton
Dr. Stranger

Registered: 03/28/18
Posts: 1,680
Loc: Limbo
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Re: Sailing the high seas [Re: d0urd3n]
#25147631 - 04/18/18 09:36 AM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Omg man that is so cool. Sounds like a tough life tough.
-------------------- Materialistic, individualistic, truth seeker, risk taker.
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Thayendanegea
quiet walker



Registered: 02/20/12
Posts: 7,596
Loc: 7 Lodges Nation
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Good to see that you are back at port for a bit and have survived for yet another adventure. I have some friends that are charter captains in the Chesapeake Bay and some off shore Captains out of OC, Maryland and Va. Beach. These guys only go out for the day though, maybe an overnight.
How big is your vessel? A pic would be very cool.
-------------------- Look Deep Into Nature,and Then You Will Understand Everything Better. Albert Einstein
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Jan Van Hunks
The legend



Registered: 12/25/16
Posts: 26
Loc: The seven seas
Last seen: 6 months, 24 days
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I am here!
Haha I almost forgot about you guys, I went back off grid for a couple years.
I haven't made the jump to Canada yet, maybe it's in the wind but instead I find myself east. So many little island out here, little dabs of paradise spattered across the great blue.
Sometimes they are only inhabited by birds and bugs and the tiny patch looks prehistorically overgrown. Thailand next month.
I love you all so much! A beautiful woman I met in India stayed with me for a year during the covid thing. We were just going to be fooling around for a week or too along the coast. Then the radio told us scary stories so we stayed afloat.
We ate my first batch of new Peruvian torch together. She was so innocent and so curious such a pristine soul. It was beauty and magic and love and fear and sharing of everything. We create our own little world for awhile but then tragedy in her family brought her back to shore. And with that, responsibilities set in. I cherish it all and we talk still and I will come back by for her I'm sure. I would share my cabin with her for however long she wishes to stay the journey.
It has made me realize much about myself during these years I've been gone. (I went back and read all my posts) my love is solid in the sea, in the horizon. To set roots again seems so remote and absurd.
So I am back! I should be around for here and there for much time
-------------------- When you see the clouds on table mountain, you'll know we're at it again.
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Blue Cthulhu
Undefined



Registered: 05/27/19
Posts: 570
Loc: With the loons
Last seen: 1 hour, 6 minutes
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Sometimes on larger doses of psilocybin, it seems as though all of reality breaks down into a big soup or ocean, and I have to sing my way through it, and my voice turns into a big boat upon which I navigate the waters of chaos and carve my way forward, through the waves that threaten to engulf me
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"Things are true that I forget, but no one taught that to me yet." A disembodied-re-embodied consciousness be-ing (With all the accoutrements.)
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jack_straw2208
Doctor



Registered: 02/12/07
Posts: 3,117
Loc: Earth
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That's good advice for everyone who trips
-------------------- If you can’t tell what you desperately need, it’s probably sleep.
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