Originally posted by Dwarflord:

I want to say that you're stupid for doing this, but one of my friends who is quite intelligent did the same thing. I did it in my first playthrough as well after coming across the edge in my exploration of the Deep North. However, I did it naked, on a raft...and I took pictures.

It's kinda that you expect to be able to do _something_ to maneuver the boat away from the edge (and going close because you're curious and want to see what it looks like below is not that weird).

There's always debugmode...