{"id":6579,"date":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/?p=6579"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","slug":"matt-major-life-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/?p=6579","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Major Life Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I know everyone has been waiting to hear what\u2019s been going on behind the scenes, so I\u2019m just going to lay it out: I\u2019ve made an offer to buy Ryan Phelan and Stewart Brand\u2019s houseboat Mirene<\/em>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

People say \u201cthe two happiest days of a boaters life is when you buy the boat and sell the boat\u201d but I\u2019m not always the best at following advice<\/strong>, so I\u2019m going all-in on this cute little tuggy<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Anybody who\u2019s founded a company and had to find good stewards knows that no one will love a thing quite like the original owner, but sometimes you can find the perfect person to carry the torch. I was happy to take on and upgrade John Mayer\u2019s EarthRoamer for about five years.<\/p>\n

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Then I passed it on to Dustin Yellin, trading for some of his art<\/a>. But without a high-maintenance means of conveyance, I\u2019ve felt a hole in my heart and really boxed in and constrained. So from land, to the sea!<\/p>\n

SF Standard says<\/a> \u201cThe kitchen table may be where Otis Redding wrote \u201c(Sittin\u2019 on) The Dock of the Bay<\/a>.\u201d I hope do a lot of blogging there. <\/p>\n

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Real artists ship<\/a>, right? Longevity is all about maintenance<\/a>, and I\u2019m looking forward to all the lessons Mirene<\/em> and the ocean will teach as we navigate the weather of the coming years. If the offer is accepted, I have a lot to learn from Ryan and Stewart about what\u2019s next.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know everyone has been waiting to hear what\u2019s been going on behind the scenes, so I\u2019m just going to lay it out: I\u2019ve made an offer to buy Ryan Phelan and Stewart Brand\u2019s houseboat Mirene. People say \u201cthe two happiest days of a boaters life is when you buy the boat and sell the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-1024x683-gYaydT.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}