The fjords of Norway are world famous for their beauty, but even though the word itself is Norwegian, there are fjords all over the world in areas that used to be covered in glaciers. One of these areas is the Pacific Northwest of North America, we herit’s actually possible to travel by boat from the Seattle area all the way into Alaska without going to the Pacific Ocean, and although plenty of people make this journey by boat, [Matt] is planning on doing this journey on a jet ski with a custom camper on the back.
Normally a jet ski wouldn’t be the ideal platform for a multi-day on-boat adventure because of their size, but [Matt] found perhaps the largest jet ski ever made and he got a deal on it since it had previously been wrecked. Once he repaired the hull damage, he cut a sheet of plywood in half and put a hinge in the middle so it can unfold over the top of the jet ski but fold it away when he’s traveling. With the basic concept in place he took it right out on the water to a campsite before finalizing the construction of the rest of the tent, including the installation of a door, a window, and some interior lighting.
During that first night, a storm cropped up and pushed the craft out to shore while [Matt] was sleeping, so after realizing, waking up, and motoring back to shore, he made sure to tie the craft to a rock to avoid similar situations before going back to sleep. But besides some motion sickness which prevented him from cooking inside his camper, the rest of the adventure went off without a hitch. Before taking it on the Inside Passage he has been thinking of a few improvements like outriggers to keep it from rocking while he sleeps. [Matt] is no stranger to unusual camper builds, though, we recently featured his other camper which is an electric car converted to explore abandoned railroads.
“herit’s “… that’s not a word…
Maybe AI thinks it is?
You’re not wrong, but it IS part of the old-timey phrase “we herit’s”
You can in-herit, maybe you can out-herit, up, down, pro, pre, sub and un-herit.
Nobody here except us Herits
All the words that are words now weren’t words before. Just think about it, if caveman had this “yu can’t say this, it’s not a word” attitude we’d all still be typing things like:
UHGGG and HNNNNGG and ARGHHHH we are still using the DUHHH thouhg, that one is pretty powerful.
I do wonder what coding would be like in caveman syntax.
Well some people think you can vibe code in caveman.
https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/blob/main/README.md
Like this?
“I do wonder what coding would be like in caveman syntax.”
Isn’t that what we now call … FORTRAN ? ;)
Fortran is one of the more modern variants. Before that we had Steemgen, Clokwinden, all the way back to Stoenverk.
The biggest of these was the ‘Hertfordshire Embedded Neolithic Glacial Engine’, colloquially known Stonehenge.
We had to build it in Wiltshire because the local NIMBYs didn’t want it anywhere near them. They had some daft idea that it would bring about the end of the world.
It’s OBVIOUSLY a typo that didn’t get caught, despite the writer having spell check and these articles (allegedly) having an editor.
“we herit’s”
“we hear it’s”
Its OBVIOUSLY a typo intentionally included to mask the AI composition.
also having something being blown out to shore is, um, a little unusual.
Maybe it’s the weirdly optimistic tone of the article about a guy who didn’t realize he should tie/anchor a boat, but I am crossing every finger for him that we don’t get a “missing in the Hecate Straight” follow-up.
A world with one less YouTube content creator. Why not?
I realise this isn’t saying much, but he is one of the better ones. He’s just somewhat lacking in railroad engineering knowledge – no suspension. But he’s not the only one building rail carts who’s omitted that…
He makes video for the sake of content, instead of a project that HAPPENS to have a video about it.
He IS NOT “one of the better ones”…
yes, he’s lucky it wasn’t blown completely out to shore.
It does not work that way. Especially in Norway. There are nasty inversion winds. And heavy tides and currents. It is almost impossible to find reasonable anchor in fjords, as they are often 300 meter deep.
So what you’re saying is he should be pining for the fjords or he will be an ex-content creator?
Zis is ze Trondheim Hammer Dance, vitch
Takes place every 25 minutes in ze town of Trondheim, in vitch ze old
ladies are struck about ze head, viz round sticks or knurdl…
Und der ladies are thrown, screaming, into de fjords wis der boots tied around their necks.
I’ll take the high road.
As long as homeboy isn’t abandoning his wife and kids to do this obvious mid life crisis move- rip it, man.
Take a sketch jet ski across the PNW… sure. Do you.
So he’s sleeping without a life vest, unsecured to his vessel, above water in near freezing temps? The video was interesting but man this just seems like some safety precautions are being ignored here.
Matt Spears have a habit of doing adventures and not preparing enough or being reckless, but it makes content…
I absolutely respect his skill in handling a motorcycle and creativity, but I won’t follow his channel, as it’s just too annoying.
When he’s burning gas in a confined space and wondering why he feels motion sick.. ugh.. c’mon guy.. a little more sense please.