by Ray Jason
For over a decade I have been encouraging people around our Watery World to form Sea Gypsy Tribes. My belief is that they are the best defense against any catastrophe that may overwhelm Society. Here is my 2024 update.
The basic concept remains the same. Essentially, it provides all of the survival benefits of land-based emergency “prepping,” but with the significant advantage of not being stationary.
Human history proves that when people have to choose between starving and marauding, they always attack. Having an ocean-ready sailboat, properly equipped and stocked, allows one to “Flee to the Sea!”
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Here’s why sailing boats are ideal survival platforms.
They are propelled by the wind. On my longest single-handed voyage of 30 days from Hawaii to San Francisco, I used my diesel engine for only 2 hours. The Age of Exploration and the establishment of the great Oceanic Trade Routes were achieved solely through wind power.
Modern sailboats have been using solar panels and wind generators for decades. Although these “green” energy sources do not successfully scale up for massive urban requirements, they are perfect for sailors. They produce enough electricity to power refrigeration, lights, pumps, radios, GPS, fans, computers, etc.
Reverse-osmosis onboard desalination systems provide plentiful water. The less expensive option, that I have used for decades, is a simple catchment system to fill my tanks with rain water. I have never run out in all of my years of sailing the Wide Waters.
It is easy to store plenty of long-life, non-perishable food onboard. Rice, pasta and flour are basic staples with a long shelf life. Canned meats such as chicken, tuna, salmon, beef, sardines, crab-meat, shrimp and turkey are widely available.
Entertainment has certainly advanced since Capt. Cook’s days. Singing sea chanteys has been replaced by ebooks, real books, music players, board games, computer games and movies on DVD. Plus there are magnificent birds, dolphins and whales as companions.
Self-defense is obviously easier when you are a moving target. SHTF pirates will be limited by the fact that almost all of them rely on internal combustion engines. They can only venture out a limited distance from the coast due to their fuel requirements.
My personal Sea Gypsy Tribe has members skilled with firearms, bows and arrows, close-quarter knives and IEDs. Not only are we a moving target, we are also a formidable FAFO adversary.
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Putting a Sea Gypsy Tribe together should be done carefully and secretly. All members must be Kindred Spirits in the most profound sense. The ideal size is 5 to 10 boats. Less than 5 does not supply much “strength in numbers” and more than 10 potentially leads to personality disputes and decision-making difficulties.
Physical fitness should be the norm and not the ideal. Boats with kids onboard are particularly valuable. Each Tribe should have at least one person capable of doing Celestial Navigation and this skill should be revered and taught.
When an emergency occurs, the boats should head to a pre-arranged offshore rendezvous point. Each vessel should depart separately and quietly so that they will not be noticed. Once assembled, then a Decision Council will convene.
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Through the years, I have written over a dozen articles fine-tuning my Sea Gypsy Tribe concept. Some of the possible catastrophes that I previously discussed included:
Economic Collapse
Cyber Attack
Electric Grid Failure
Massive Civil Unrest
Bio-weapon Release
Reserve Currency Termination
Electro-Magnetic Pulse Weapon
Nuclear War Devastation
Peak Oil
Climate Change Crisis
Digital Enslavement
CBDC Control Gulag
In those prior essays, I discussed each of these issues and then described how Sea Gypsy Tribes have the best chance of surviving these cataclysms and possibly even flourishing after some of them.
On the topic of Climate Change, I completely reversed my position after I did more serious research. I realized that there was no genuine human-induced Climate Emergency. Instead it is a lie designed to further enslave Humanity.
As a live-aboard ocean sailor, I am more immersed in raw Nature than 90% of Humanity. So, I share the sincere desire of the early environmentalists, who truly wanted to protect the Oceans, Mountains and Deserts. However, Climate Change is a brazen power grab.
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As we sail into 2024, I will now discuss some new dangers that deserve serious analysis. They are:
Technocratic Tyranny
White Displacement
The Human to Cyborg Transition
TECHNOCRATIC TYRANNY
After a decade of research, I am convinced that there is a self-anointed group of Elitists, who want to Rule the World. I fondly refer to them as our Malignant Overlords. Certainly, history is strewn with similar tyrants, but now there is a significant difference.
Recent advances in technology provide them insanely powerful methods of control. They claim that their New World Order is designed to catalyze global improvement. But what they are truly seeking is to build a High-Tech Slave Planet.
The Sea Gypsy Tribes have the best chance of escaping this control grid. Most people will be imprisoned by the Central Bank Digital Currency and the Digital I.D. systems. But the Tribes will be bartering with folks on out-of-the-way islands and distant shores, where independent people are far less likely to buy into the lunacy.
More importantly, when events start to go disastrously sideways, these ocean vagabonds will go into full self-preservation mode, which means fishing and foraging. This will initially be buffered by the long-term food supplies that they already have stashed onboard.
Knowing that the Sea Gypsy Tribes are “out there somewhere” resisting the Cyber-Chains, should inspire those onshore, who are also striving to rebel against the brutal oppression.
WHITE DISPLACEMENT
Any perceptive person can see that there is a massive and deliberate campaign underway to denigrate White People and diminish their value to Society. Statues of prominent Whites are removed or demolished. Men are forced to undergo “White Privilege” re-education. TV commercials are full of “multi-cultural” families devoid of White Parents and White Children.
The Sea Gypsy Tribe movement is an excellent anti-dote to this. It is a True Meritocracy. You either have the skills and courage to sail the vast ocean or you don’t. The Sea will not grant you a pass because of your Race, Gender or Sexual Preference.
As a result, the offshore cruising community is a significantly White sub-culture. We surely do not exclude others. But they earn their acceptance through their conduct and not through immutable characteristics that they were randomly born with.
The children are home-schooled onboard and they are taught real-world skills and decision making. A sizable portion of the Cruising Fleet is out here because they deliberately have chosen to flee from the Real World. Many of us use the stars to navigate. Yet I have never heard the term “Lesbian Astronomy” mentioned.
FROM HUMAN TO CYBORG
For thousands of years, ordinary people have had to suffer under the rule of maniacal dictators (Malignant Overlords). But even the worst of these power junkies never wanted to actually change the very nature of human beings.
But that s what is facing us “little people” early in the 21st Century. Crazy People – and that is how they would have been perceived in saner times – do not get locked away for everyone’s protection. Instead, they get flown to Davos on private jets to promote their personal psychoses.
They literally want to merge Man with Machine. They even have a catchy word for it – Trans-humanism. They market it as being enormously beneficial for Humanity. They will show videos of amputees being able to walk due to a brain chip.
What they don’t mention is that the regular folk will get The SLAVE BRAIN CHIP and the Elites will receive The IMMORTALITY BRAIN CHIP.
Because of this lunacy, the Sea Gypsy Tribes may have to play a role like the Monks of the Dark Ages who kept alive the flame of previous human knowledge in their caves and monasteries. But in this vile scenario, our mission will be monumentally important.
We will be the living custodians of the True, Natural, Biological, Carbon-based Human Being.