The ocean is both scary and beautiful.

[u/Soloflow786]

[u/Im_Ur_Huckleberry77]

This looks intense... but imagine 400 years ago going across the Atlantic on a wooden ship not knowing when you'd be on land again.

[u/AhiAnuenue → u/Im_Ur_Huckleberry77]

Polynesians sailed all over the Pacific in wooden canoes

[u/Surface13 → u/AhiAnuenue]

Source: Moana said they used to be voyagers

[u/bcorliss9 → u/Surface13]

Whoa whoa, I have a similar source that says no one goes beyond the reef??

[u/lil_pee_wee → u/Surface13]

People ended up on pretty much every single one of those islands. They had to do it somehow

[u/turfnerd82 → u/AhiAnuenue]

Alright, I get it. I'm a full-grown man with a little girls mind seeing a spider or whatever little girls are afraid of. As a full grown man I'm not afraid of spiders but that is absolutely terrifying and honestly I can't imagine being the people before maps when the world more than maybe 100 miles was mystery. Going out and seeing that! Those were men, I'm a giant fucking pussy and if there is an after life I have to meet these men.
Give me purgatory, or nothingness. We all look like loosers now

[u/SpadoCochi → u/turfnerd82]

Losers

[u/SD_TMI → u/AhiAnuenue]

Not quite, catamarans are two “light” and narrow canoes that limit drag and max out speed.

Modern US warships are using these now. They’re far superior than single hull ships in many ways.