"To buy Pino Devine & I each got a 10,000$ bank loan. We had savings, but didn't want to be left with an empty account after the purchase."

https://100r.co/site/buying_a_sailboat.html#bankloan

If you go read their logs you'll find that they come across as people that aren't aware of such a "significant safety net" if there is one so even if it exists it is unlikely to have had a relevant influence on their work.

They've been excruciatingly open about their experiences and what they've learned along the way, including pecuniary matters.

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lmm 4 days ago | parent [-]

> If you go read their logs you'll find that they come across as people that aren't aware of such a "significant safety net" if there is one so even if it exists it is unlikely to have had a relevant influence on their work.

On the contrary, they read exactly like people in that situation to me. How many people like that do you have experience with?

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cess11 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, I have, and they were not as meticulously frugal as the 100r couple have been. When they've described having contact with family it's been things like this:

"We got a message from Iridium saying our account was about to be suspended. We think we may have used up all our data. We can't check the weather, but SMS still work and we're trying to get in contact with them to append more minutes. Devine's dad is also helping us with it. What a shit show. We should have purchased more, but also, I don't know how it is possible that we went through it all. We did have some issues with the device, with it stalling during some internet calls... maybe this ate up extra minutes. Either way, this situation is shit, as we don't know what's going on out there and we can't broadcast our position."

"We received a message from Devine's dad, saying that he'd contacted the customer service at Iridium and that we had indeed, run out of data. Our plan was topped up, and we're able to update our position on the live map, check emails and to check the weather — finally!"

It's been much more common that they've made friends at sea and earned knowledge and help that way, besides the business they do.

	▲	lazyasciiart 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		“Ugh, we made a silly mistake; it’s ok, Dad paid to fix it.”That is certainly not evidence against any such safety net?