Three Years Alone at Sea: A Solo Sailor's Memoir, Given Away as CareWare

This is a promotional page for “Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor,” a first-person book recounting a 3½-year solo circumnavigation that began in 1988 aboard a 31-foot sailboat departing the U.S. West Coast. The author pitches the memoir around the extremes of the voyage — pirates, storms, and wars witnessed firsthand — alongside the quieter interior story of a solitary sailor’s evolving relationship with the sea and a psychological shift from dreading departure to never wanting to return to land.

The only technology-relevant hook is the distribution model. Rather than selling the book, the author releases it under “CareWare”: no payment is asked now or ever, but it is framed as not strictly free either — a goodwill-based licensing scheme in the same spirit as donationware or postcardware, where the expected exchange is an act of care rather than money. The page also points readers to a companion sailing page with photos.

For a cybersecurity and technology audience there is no security, software, or infrastructure substance here; the item’s presence on Hacker News reflects interest in the memoir and the alternative-licensing philosophy rather than any technical development. Editors should treat it as off-beat human-interest content and pass unless running a tech-culture or software-licensing segment.