Saturday, July 5, 2025

I started to watch Trainwreck: Poop Cruise which is a documentary at Netflix on a real event in 2013

I knew my wife who grew up yachting as a Heavy Weather Sailor with her parents  would be interested in this. Her father sailed to Hawaii on the Transpac Race I think in 1967 when she was young but she was only about 12 and her father and the crew were all men so she didn't go. It's from California to Hawaii.

So, I usually watch about 10 minutes of different interesting things that stream to see if my wife would be interested. Oh by the Way Old Guard 2 just came out on Netflix too which is a sequel to Old Guard with Charlize Theron.

But, if you watch this documentary it might take your desire to ever go on a cruise ship when you see this documentary. 

Of course my point of view being a survivalist in the 1980 (without a gun) and camping and mountain climbing and traveling to India and Nepal in 1985 is quite different than the people on the ship because they are more sort of (let's go to a bar and get drunk and have fun) but that's not my idea of fun. My idea of fun is riding motorcycles into the wilderness and climbing mountains and peeing the woods and knowing how to survive in really wild situations.

So, to me, people like on Cruise ships seem sort of like Children compared to what I was interested in doing. But, that's only because I grew up being a hiker, camper, surfer, Skier and I was never interested in going to bars in the first place simply because I'm allergic to alcohol.

But, if you ever want to go on a cruise ship no matter your backgrounpid I would watch this documentary first.

I can remember sailing in a yacht race to Ensenada Mexico when I was 12 with my father and 3 TWA  pilots in 1960 (TWA was an airline like PANAM was too that is no more.) And we were sailing through a storm to Ensenada and I woke up in the bow of the Yacht and went outside on the deck and couldn't see the shore because they were sailing way out to sea so we wouldn't be driven into the shore and die on cliffs or something and trying not to freak out because the Yacht was only 40 feet in length and a sailboat.

So, I can identify with just how terrified these people were who weren't really sailors at all and just drunk partiers on a toot in the ocean in a fairy tale that doesn't really exist when things get really real in these kinds of situations.

Also, traveling to Mexico in the yacht race in 1960 we did number 1 over the side of the ship as guys and did number 2 in a bucket and then washed the bucket out with seawater then in 1960.

This will make sense as you watch this documentary and why they call it "the Poop Cruise". 

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