Spoken like a patriot.

I will be covertly spreading Revolution posters on any surface available. Also, creating Revolutionary underground cells.

I thought about that for a long time, but realize that out on the water you're totally exposed to any government, cartel, militant group, pirate or redneck who sees you and decides to screw with you. Unless you're in local territorial waters or have a lot of money, you will be woefully under-armed, unless you take the chances of confiscation & prison anytime you run into any government's coast guard that wants you to heave to while they pillage - er - inspect your vehicle. As much as I like the freedom of the water, that freedom is only there if the governments out there behave themselves and keep order, or you have enough armament and weapons to scare off or sink anyone who feels like screwing you. It was like that for a while after WWII, I don't expect to see it again.
I've decided to set up shop on dry land, somewhere reasonably safe where I can hunt, garden, keep a low profile and meet intruders with force if they cross the barbed wire.

I am 80, in good health and most people think I am in my 60's so I am figuring to go out with a few commie scalps tied to my belt. The build up of anger as I watch our rapid slide will be useful as I play random sniper until they take me out.

That is one reason I don't own one now. My sailing experience is also limited to crewing on various sized boats over several seasons in my younger days (late 20s to early 30s). It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot, including the hole in the water adage. Your advice is well considered. Still, as a Galt get away if things go bad in the city I live near, it is a possibility worth considering.

Wi$dom gained from Ka-ching! hard experience i$ alway$ worth $trong con$ideration.

From personal experience: a boat is a hole in the water that you pour money into. That shack will start to sound cheap.

We could only hope.

Since the Critical Race Theory teaches those Woke jokes that they who call other people racists are also inherently racist themselves.
So just bring them the cheapest guns you can find, drop them off and get the hell out of the way. Why?
Sooner or later those CRT experts will start shooting themselves due to their own racial guilt.

Firearms are racist, too. I'd be happy to bring them so that we can all be racist together.

I think Jean Lafitte used the Gulf Coast, Boliver Peninsula at Galveston. The Intracoastal Canal is very easy to navigate your yacht. My friends who own the Marguerita (37 foot Hunter) use it all the time and we frequent the seafood restaurants coming in on the canal side! N

John's find has the toughest bridgework I've ever seen. 2" stainless round for the bimini, davit support, crane, electronics mounting. Make the investment up front on gel cell batteries, and 3 types of electric generation, desalination and away you go.

I prefer something in the mid-thirties for lengths. Easier to handle short-handed. I really screwed up 2 years ago in not purchasing a Sea Sprite 33. Sold for 50K with, best estimate on time/materials restoration of 170K. Panache was the name.....Oh it fit so well.

Challenge is up for sale last I heard. Chicago/Mac 2018 winner. She's sitting in Manitowoc.
That is...if you want to do the maintenance on an aluminum hull...yikes.

An Endeavor 42 was used in the series "Miami Vice" as Sonny Burnett's hide away boat (complete with watch gator "Elvis"). Beautiful boat. I read an article on it a couple of years ago. Apparently it was damaged and neglected and was picked up for about $30K, refurbished, and can now be rented by a charter service in Florida. That would be a perfect go Galt boat.

A friend of mine picked up an Endeavor 42 in George Town, Bahamas, around 150 mile SSE of Nassau. 25K. All it needed was the chain plates repaired. About 1K.
If I were him I'd be looking to Nova Scotia for summer and the Carolina waterways in winter...or The Great Lakes. Easy to get away from scrutiny.

Keeping an eye on other people's stuff is right up my alley. Between 1982 and 2003 me dino was a state corrections officer (or what prison guards are taught to call themselves). Do you know prison guards protect inmates and their stuff from each other? Protected more important stuff when assigned to towers, such as the public.
Between 2003 and 2013 I was off and on a full time and part time a security guard for four different company and one hired me back. When I heard someone was paying more I kinda drifted their way. I guarded banks, businesses of all types. Second best $$$ was a Mercedes plant and the best $$$ was protecting a Wachovia data center. Then type 2 diabetes started to make my flat feet get worse and now I'm fully retired. Some jobs I had let me sit down. Hint, hint! Me dino can still shoot straight too.

Under 60k gets you a boat for all conditions. Many I know "summer" The Great Lakes and "winter" coastal or islands. Inland waterway or St Lawrence for transit. Sailors are overlooked because we are so slow. 2 boats different locations and hitch ride for transit is pretty cheap also.
In all my Caribbean "hopping" I checked in at each port...customs. Only one I did not see a way to get past was Anguilla. British military post was very observant. All the others are easily compromised for just a provisioning trip.

Then I thought: hire Disney to design the cove.

I have been looking at sailboats for a while, but only as a way to retreat when necessary. There has to be a safe 'cove' as a destination.
I'm not Ragnar. Can't afford a submersible capable of blockade running.

You all got me thinking. Instead of dropping $300k-$400k on a shack outside the city, maybe a nicely accoutered sailboat would be a better bet. When the city starts to burn, set off to the blue and leave it all behind. That's where Dino comes in. Ragnar Danneskjold needed a place to come ashore from time to time so we'll have to set up a secret cove where Dino hides out and keeps an eye on stuff.

You ain't the only one.
As the future Scorpion King more than once said in a flick with the same name, "Live free. Die well."

I'm with you on that one. I would rather die on my feet, thank you!

Anyone who refuses a Gulag career is a racist. Just ask any Woke joke.

Gulag for me? I don't fancy building a railroad. I can't swing a pickaxe like I used to, so it's bugout or die trying.

No doubt. Or up the chimney. Watch for those big smokestacks inside the Gulag re-education camps.

Yes, but they'll just be deleting files, not real burning.

I could fit in anywhere, so long as they dont track my efficiency.....