#Boatlife: The families selling up to live – and work – at sea

A growing armada is taking advantage of the remote labour arrangements ushered in by COVID-19 to escape the rat race for a life of marine adventures.

Hakon Amdal on Hello World. He and his girlfriend, Marte Loge, sold up and took to the sea after becoming bored with life in Oslo.

Simon Usborne

Oct 19, 2021 – 9.47am

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Andrew Siegal had a nice life. He lived in a pleasant house in Napa with his wife and two young sons. He made good money in the California wine trade. But there was always an itch.

Siegal, 51 and originally from New York City, had long been inspired by Henry David Thoreau, the American thinker who turned his back on materialism “to suck out all the marrow of life” in the woods. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” Thoreau wrote in 1854 in Walden, his personal declaration of independence.

Financial Times