North Atlantic boat traffic

Arr, that be a fine song, Tommy.

I'm not that afeard of teh flyin', although I don't enjoy it a lot. They took my cigarettes away from me years ago. I can chew obsessively through an entire package of strawberry twizzlers on a transatlantic flight, and I'm a basket case by the time I get to the other side.

But no, that's not the main problem. I've decided I'm just too offended by the paranoid security. I don't believe it's effective; I do think it's cynical and oppressive and fully intended to chip away from yet another direction at democracy, so I ain't a-marchin' any more. I might do it in an emergency, but otherwise, I wish to reject teh airports and teh planes and the whole dratted catastrophe.

Travelling surface on a continent is doable -- hard here, very easy in Europe, where they are racing ahead on the train front. God, we are primitive. But before they took away our trains, they took away our normal boats, so there is the problem.

Thanks very much for those links above. I shall investigate. Do you think they let you smoke on boats? They must. Pirates let you smoke, yes?