The following is a guest post by my old friend Sandy. He hosted me graciously during part of my 2010 trip to Panama, where he still lives. He’s now looking for supporters to join him in a new venture, writing about a lesser-known form of prepping and escape from tyranny.<\/i><\/p>\n
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The World’s First Preppers and How to Join Them<\/strong><\/p>\n by Sandy Sandfort<\/p>\n Some anthropologists say that Man’s creation and use of boats date back 45,000 years ago into the Stone Age. Then and ever since then, humans in boats have had to be preppers. Whether you are crossing the Pacific or just traveling to the next island, you have to prepare. When Polynesians sailed their outriggers hundreds of miles to settle New Zealand, they took rats and other food, water and primitive navigation tools with them; they were preppers. When Columbus set out for the New World, he was to be a prepper, as were Darwin on the Beagle and Magellan on the Trinidad. All sailors are preppers. Today, everyone who sails is a prepper whether they use that word or not.<\/p>\n Today, so-called recreational sailors, yachties, cruisers, boaters or whatever, are a vast community of preppers. And in today’s world, sailing offers one of the best ways to \u201cget out of Dodge\u201d when things turn ugly wherever you are. If you are a prepper today, you are most of the way to being a \u201csea prepper\u201d if you want to be. If you think you cannot afford a boat, think again. It can be done very easily if you are willing to examine some of your preconceptions about how to organize your life.<\/p>\n How do I know this? For several years, I have been thinking and researching sea prepping. I know it can be done, because I know people who have done it and when I run the numbers, it all adds up.<\/p>\n I want to write out the entire program in a book, tentatively called, Plan Sea<\/em>. Sound interesting? If you want to be involved in creating this guide to sea prepping, please visit my website<\/a> (zapzone.webs.com) and click on the \u201cBuy the Book\u201d link at the top of the screen, then scroll down to “Come Join the Plan Sea Book Project” for information about how you can help make this book happen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is a guest post by my old friend Sandy. He hosted me graciously during part of my 2010 trip to Panama, where he still lives. He’s now looking for supporters to join him in a new venture, writing about a lesser-known form of prepping and escape from tyranny. —– The World’s First Preppers and How to Join Them by Sandy Sandfort Some anthropologists say that Man’s creation and use of boats date back 45,000 years ago into the Stone Age. Then and ever since then, humans in boats have had to be preppers. Whether you are crossing the…<\/p>\n