A Different Life

Here’s a young couple diving deep into the spirit of blue water cruising.  While the production feels a touch too pretty, perfect and preachy for the camera, and the boat and gear aren’t exactly the minimalist approach of Lin and Larry Pardy, the video does show how much life can expand after whittling all the “things” down to less.

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  • Francis S Capsan says:

    Let’s be fair here y’all. Isn’t there a bit of envy that this couple made the dream of all sailors happen for them. Whether it took an endorsement from a beer company, or as they mentioned, they saved enough money to buy an fit out a safe vessel to make the dream happen is beside the point. The adventure they did doesn’t happen without the equipment, and the financial means to get to the pacific, and shoot a film which 99% of OCH members enjoy. So, that’s all folks! Let’s just enjoy the movie and wish we were there too.

  • Ed Howe says:

    Not what I come to och for….. ie. over-produced slick videos of rich fashion models with tons of money pretending to live the “simple life.” Please. And the whole thing is just a beer advert.

  • Coleen Mennucci says:

    This video was a nice change and also inspiring. We all need to jump on “opportunities” when we can and these two people have done so, regardless how long it lasts or how they got there.
    Let us all take something from this story, I will. Thank you for sharing it with us.

  • Michael Wagner says:

    Thats too cool, great video, thanks for sharing, real food for thought

  • Sailor 65 says:

    I am happy for you. I agree w your philosophy. Experience as much as you can. More things is not a goal. I feel lucky, to have my life. It’s what works for me and my wife. Cheers

  • Eugene Bellows says:

    Now I am 87 and Handicapped and Had a bit of the sailing life with our two daughters. They said it was the best thing we ever done. Their ages at that time were 13 and 15. We cruised for about a year and a half and would have continued longer but the cost was getting in the way. I still miss it to this day. A lot of planning is needed and a way to have some income to maintain boat as well as your self.

  • Brent Williams says:

    Awesome, video. Thank you for sharing, it couldn’t have come at a better time. I just turned 61 in May, and I am on a HOT train to down size. I sold a car, now I have room to move all the crap that I was paying to store into my garage. So now I can get rid of it. Then, I have had an extreme notion to sell my house and buy a boat. Go ahead and retire and hit the water. 👍👍

  • Stephen Morison says:

    Gorgeous part of the world… of course, French Polynesia has schools, jobs, a complicated political system, a complicated relationship with mainland France, taxes, jobs, arts, problems with alcoholism, etc. And of course, people have been passing by in sailboats to write about and film the occupants for two hundred years, from Melville’s “Typee” and Robert Louis Stephenson’s “The Moon and Sixpence” to Mark Burnett’s “Survivor” (I’m guilty of this as well). Not saying it’s wrong or that other’s shouldn’t do it, just that it’s a wee bit more complicated than this Corona commercial.

  • Ben Hayes says:

    I believe that this boat sank last fall on passage from Tonga to the Bay of Islands in New Zealand. Not sure if it was the same owners, but the story we heard (in Tonga) was that the engine came off the engine mounts and was in danger of holing the boat, so she was scuttled. All on board were transferred to a nearby Outremer catamaran before the boat was scuttled. Sad ending assuming that it is in fact the same boat (a bit different from the video).

  • Chris Stask says:

    I’ve been there, done that. The simple life was not cheap. Paradise is only paradise with the monthly check. My time offshore was an amazing experience—well done on the video.

  • Kathleen Roach says:

    I have to agree with some of my fellow responders.This was quite a commercial portrayal of “living the simple life.” The so called “simple life” is full of challenges. I laughed out loud when the boat first appeared and again when the guy had to wear a wet suit to go spear fishing…okay enough. It was a little escape from city life, but more of a fictional altered reality.

  • Timothy Daly says:

    Not to sound cynical, but that’s a pretty extensive/expensive yacht filled with equipment for the ‘simple life’…….

  • Silver Salt says:

    I wonder if the sponsorship is for the filmmaker rather than the couple?
    Fuel, the occasional new sail, dive masks and fins are all products of modern consumer life and take money. Even the Tahitian uses manufactured spears. Perhaps it’s a matter of degree, as defined by each individual, about how much is enough? Perhaps what’s missing, and what they have reacted against, is an active assessment of enough? They, the off grid and some religious sects have deliberately chosen a simple life but it’s by no means easy.

  • Sam Smith says:

    Very well crafted piece but for someone who wants a “simple Life ” and hates advertising
    the endorsements seem to say different.

  • Ralph Wood says:

    Might not be for all of us but worth considering.