Sailboat for 'End of the World' Getaway

[w1651]

Originally Posted by Tellie

Juuuus playing devils advocate for a moment in this sail away from disater thread. I'm curious how friendly the boating community will still be when ones smaller starving 32 footer watches a better outfitted 42 footer sail by.

Is it loaded down with Zombies or regular people?
Can Zombies swim?
If it has Zombies on board or a bunch of people from the land of OZ it's gotta be sunk.
Both according to this thread are flesh eaters from way back and cannot be allowed to stay at the same mooring as the foragers. sink the Ozzies and Let them stay on the deserted island until they have eaten each other and then we can resume foraging for papayas and coconuts.
As for the Zombies it's best to get rid of them as they don't eat themselves just us regular folks. So they have to die!
This thread is more interesting than I thought it would be.

[Lancerbye]

I am now in training for SHTF senario. Playing Fallout3 and Fallout New Vegas. You get practice scrounging, killing Mutants and Zombies. LOL

[Kalinka1]

Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey

My guess is that the Euro or USD will never collapse, just might be worth very little. Simply changing the name of a currency won't fix the underlying economic problems. Nor will defaulting on the debts.

What will likely happen is that as the populace gets poorer they accept that as the new norm. and carry on voting for leaders who make them poorer and whose pitch is "not enough to go around". Humans as groups can be slowwwww learners



I think you may have over estimated the inherent freindliness of the natives



Just started watching a (US) Zombie TV series - I think it might be a documentary, or if not a sure sign that the US Govt knows something and is simply forewarning people. the people who can read the signs.....

BTW apparently Zombies are also attracted by noise. I didn't know that

Aren't the Zombies running things now?

[capnorv]

Lets see, I have the island house, mountain house (but it's only 30 miles away), ocean going vessel, 30,000 rounds, we don't see doctors or take medications, good physical health, self sustaining orchard, good garden. Oh, and I'm a prime baby boomer, been there, done that, how is it I'm going away? Hard times let hard people survive. The one enemy I have is time. Lets hope we still have some.

[w1651]

Originally Posted by Kalinka1

Aren't the Zombies running things now?

He gets it he finally gets it...

[Eleven]

WHY A SAILING CAT. Nothing else will be moving and one thing that made boats a necessary step in evolution was access to sea food, access to sea weed fertiliser and access to commodities that are not locally available.
Transport is going to be stalled back to horse and sail. A sailor suddenly has a value if he can defend his boat until he proves his worth. Always assuming enough people survive to make a continuing civilisation that's just back stepped by two hundred years.
By the way, a few fore saw the 2008 banking collapse. They got sacked!!!!

[AllezCat]

Originally Posted by boatman61

Nope... just better camouflage.....
Who ya gonna mug... the guy with flip flops or the dude in 'Gucci'....
Many plan on 'Wants'... I plan by 'Needs'...

But, Zombies want to eat YOU.
Flip floppers move at zombie pace...

[AllezCat]

Originally Posted by Eleven

WHY A SAILING CAT. Nothing else will be moving and one thing that made boats a necessary step in evolution was access to sea food, access to sea weed fertiliser and access to commodities that are not locally available.
Transport is going to be stalled back to horse and sail. A sailor suddenly has a value if he can defend his boat until he proves his worth. Always assuming enough people survive to make a continuing civilisation that's just back stepped by two hundred years.
By the way, a few fore saw the 2008 banking collapse. They got sacked!!!!

Good points.
I was listening to Rush Limbaugh(or someone similar) on the radio today. He mentioned that the FOX guy Bill Orielly said last night "they" are intentionally trying to crash the economy. So this is very mainstream news now.( I think - I don't have cable).
Which gives it less credence to me - but.
Fertilzer and fishing are good points fro trading especially since we will not have fresh fruit and veg. I was also thinking of trading guano from remote islands...
but this week will be Spring Break in Bahamas (and differnt types of birds) - please don't collapse yet ...
Also don't rely too much on the Pacific Islands for produce - they have little...

[w1651]

Originally Posted by AllezCat

But, Zombies want to eat YOU.
Flip floppers move at zombie pace...

I can remove the flip flops and run like the wind barefoot.

Not vegi's on the islands maaaaaan but fruit salad. Mango,Papaya, Banana and coconuts my freind. Good eats indeed. Not to mention fish simmered in coconut milk and making ceviche..

[Doodles]

Lots of talk about eating fruit and veggies from the jungle, etc. but you won't get many calories from those. You have to have large amount of grains, either rice or flour ... figure out where that's coming from?

We have a place in rural Thailand and there is lots of fruit on trees, etc. for the taking, but the main stable of the local diet is rice. Without it you don't get enough calories to sustain much physical activity.

[AllezCat]

Originally Posted by w1651

Better add a table spoon or two of bleach to that rain water if your going to drink it.

Seriously - I want to treat my tanks.
But - bleach?
What can I use safely?
thanks

[boatman61]

In these small quantities bleach/amonia is harmless... the chlorines in the water treatments probably worse for you...

White vinegar... 1 capfull/10 gallons

[redcobra]

Originally Posted by 70AMX

That is the problem in the USA, we live too far from the sources of food.
If I was in Costa Rica finding food wouldn't be very hard and if exports were cut off, CR would have too much food because it normally exports a good percentage of it.
Simplistic...maybe....but I can grab pineapples and bananas off the trees on the side of the road in CR....try that in Chicago
With the excess food supply in CR, I don't think that life would be as bad as in a big city in the states.

Please pass the Solent Green.

[David_Old_Jersey]

Interesting that in these threads no one seems too concerned about acting in an enviromentally freindly way.

Is that because the Greenies have already been eaten? or are the Zombies........

[w1651]

Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey

Interesting that in these threads no one seems too concerned about acting in an enviromentally freindly way.

Is that because the Greenies have already been eaten? or are the Zombies........

The hemp they were wearing got wet and weighed them down. They were the first to go.
Not to mention in the movies their always the curios ones so the first to get eaten.