Reading this story (https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2023-09-01/canoers-complete-months-long-trip-across-the-northeast) resonated with the minimalist boating adventure...
And then this other story (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66733230) as an example of how not to do it. (Although he may deserve some credit for the attempt...?)
I've done several kayak trips of several hundred miles each, the longest was ~450m in two weeks, and it is a neat way to travel that puts and keeps you very much in touch with your immediate environment. No room for 'extra stuff', physical or mental, really. Would like to do another some day... but first - sailboat trips. :D
Much prefer kayak ergonomics to those of a canoe, however. ;)
"Based on the condition of the vessel - which was afloat as a result of wiring and buoys - [US Coast Guard] officers determined Baluchi was conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage," the criminal complaint says."
"He is now facing federal charges of obstruction of a boarding,..."
So the CG was thinking... "Wow, that looks manifestly unsafe...I know, let's board it..."
Poor guy didn't need to threaten that he had a bomb aboard...just hold something sharp and say "One more step and I start popping..." :)