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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWoman Quits Her Job And Sails Around The World With Her Rescue Cat
2 days ago by Julija Televičiūtė
Liz Clark, 34, a self-proclaimed she-pirate, has been sailing around the world since 2006 when she quit her job as a bartender in San Diego, California. Clark was given a Cal 40 sailboat on the condition that she would document her adventures around the world. In 2013, Captain Lizzy welcomed a 6-month-old kitten that she rescued aboard.
She has adapted to living surrounded by water, Clark said of her cat companion to Buzzfeed. The cat, named Amelia (also lovingly referred to as Tropicat), enjoys fishing from the boat, walking on the beach and hiking. She has to go out of a cat comfort zone often, Clark added. But I think she now understands that I will keep her safe and she will have a lot of fun in the end. She makes Swell [the yacht] feel much more like a home.
So far, Clark has traveled along the western coast of Mexico and Central America, and around the South Pacific.
http://www.boredpanda.com/sailing-cat-travelling-world-liz-clark/
http://swellvoyage.com/inspiration/a-better-world-what-we-can-do/
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Woman Quits Her Job And Sails Around The World With Her Rescue Cat (Original Post)
rug
May 2016
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malthaussen
(17,235 posts)1. Pretty nice gig.
Why couldn't I ever get a job like that?
-- Mal
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. Do you have a cat??
Skittles
(153,298 posts)5. she has a lot of guts but
how does she afford it?
DinahMoeHum
(21,829 posts)6. Sponsorships. . .
. . .from the likes of Patagonia and Mizu. Plus stories and blogs to various outdoors/sailing/surfing publications.
DinahMoeHum
(21,829 posts)3. She's a "Patagonia ambassador" and has quite a number
of videos with Youtube. This is one of them:
http://www.patagonia.com/us/ambassadors/surfing/liz-clark/71249
rug
(82,333 posts)4. Lounge PSA: Cat appears at 2:02.
DinahMoeHum
(21,829 posts)7. . . .also from 3:12 through 3:30