SLIM BOAT TO SAIL

SLIM BOAT TO SAIL
I want an adventurer to experience off grid living on Pentargon.  The plan is outlined here and is not for dreamers. This is for real: unpacking 15 years living on and exploring England's canals; to see if the memories and experiences are transferable, passing on to someone else  how to survive the 21st century at all costs and at no cost at all. 

Someone to embrace boat life and run the boat, live, sleep, eat, move it so I can get on with my writing and my painting in return for subsidized accomodation and food.


In other news it is 26th June as I write at the top of the Stockton flight taking stock. Twelve months ago Pentargon was dumped off a truck into the putrid muddy green waters of the Grand Union right opposite where I am now and I went for a 12mt adventure now complete.

I have had the boat to Crick and Blisworth and North Kilworth and Warwick and Braunston which my spiritual home.  For 2024/25 I need a new challenge and I need a sailing  'partner' 

BANKER-WANKERS

The gobshites who run the Irish wankbank  Permanent TSB are testing my patience but that too shall pass.  I am totally focussed this month trying to get them to activate a simple standing order without recourse to internet or phone apps, because off grid means off grid and that means being able to survive IF NECESSARY without internet or ATMs. 

The coming week may at last show whether I have succeeded exactly twelve months after the saga began in a PTSB branch in Drogheda Ireland on 30th June 2023.  I have a €uro credit card account with these fluteplayers which I had planned to put in place to use to travel in the EU post-Brexit without having to rely on exchange rates.  You may wonder what I would want to travel in the EU for but I ask you to remember that Ireland is in the EU. 

A credit card which is automatically topped up every month with a set amount means the card could be used within a set budget without ever worrying if it was gone over. Simples?  Not with PTSB.  I had to threathen then with the financial ombudsman and there is an open formal complaint in train and will not be closed until they do what I want irrespective of what THEY want because off grid means you do not depend on ANYBODY