Solarpunk Travel

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

!trains@midwest.social ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
!rail@feddit.uk ← UK Rail and Trains
!ukpublictransport@feddit.uk ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

!travel@eviltoast.org ← general travel
!main@lemmy.globe.pub ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
!traveltips@feddit.uk ← Europe focus

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Tall Ships Are a Slow Travel Adventure—Here’s Where to Find Them in the U.S. (www.afar.com)

submitted 3 months ago by bonkerfield to c/solarpunktravel

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I looked into sailing on tall ships years ago. It was incredibly expensive as a guest, and hard as hell to get into as crew.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

hard as hell to get into as crew.

I would assume it is the same as any merchant mariner. Lots of licensing and training.

[–] poVoq 3 points 3 months ago

Many European navies have these as training ships and it used to be quite common that you could sign up as a recruit and spend some time on board. Probably easier than becoming a trained crew otherwise.

[–] youRFate@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

I was on the royal clipper a few years ago, it was great.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Many accept volunteers for the enormous amount of shore side maintenance work, and I've known several people who parleyed that into (low) paying work.

[–] hihi 1 points 2 months ago

I live in Sausalito, where the Matthew Turner is berthed, and was fortunate to watch it, as the Educational Tall Ship subject vessel, a few years ago; today I regularly watch it on the bay from my house. It is beautiful.