Is your boat part of your Doomsday Plan?

[seaman-lew]

we always have our bow pointed out, of course ours is a center cockpit, so we are ready to go. we have a wood burning grill. solar panels. we are trying to get a windlass.
in ny you know the east river has 10 kts tides

[Ardbeg]

The only way a boat would have relevance in a doomsday scenario is if you get prepped and leave today. The day the event happens will be too late.

[IdoraKeeper]

I wish we could say "We have nothing to fear but fear itself". But the immortal words of Forrest Gump's mama are closer to the truth. Stupid is as stupid does. It could happen. There is no Portugal nearby for me so a well prepared ketch will have to do.:-)

[Cadence]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

Well you wouldn't need huge water tanks if you had a watermaker, and why a huge generator? Why anything not already on a well equipped cruiser that was ready to cross the Pacific?
I'm with you on the Nuke thing though, I grew up during that era and as my home town had a huge B-52 base at the time of the Cuban middle crisis, we were supposedly number three on the hit parade.
Even as a kid I figured out the horror of a Nuclear war would be surviving one

I think the movie was, "On the Beach". Duck and cover in grade school. Like diving under your desk would do something. Thank God those days are over or are they?

[Kenomac]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

I think the genset is required to run the watermaker. The tanks are required to store the water produced in open water for use when anchored - you do not run the watermaker in lagoons, bays and rivers - think of the fallout and the washoff (no longer sewage treatment ashore - all crap goes to the rivers and then into the bays ....).

Still, it all works only as long as your diesel tank lasts, or at best till that RO unit needs a new membrane ...

We cannot go long without society and technology. And these two will be absent past the doomsday.

Indeed surviving a major collapse of our civilisation could be much worse than any other option.

If I think the doomsday is coming, I am throwing a wild party, get completely wiped out and then we will see how it all develops. ;-)

Cheers,
b.

We can live a very long time on 225 gallons of diesel.

[foufou]

One evening on the boat talking to my daughter who was at her mother's in the east bay hills, she said " dad, it's an earth quake!". I replied " I don't feel a thing". It was then I realized that a boat was possibly an earthquake resistant hideout.
---------------------------Don't believe everything you think-----------------------------------

[senormechanico]

We were on our boat in Mexico during an earthquake.
We felt it as if we were on land.
The first hit wasn't like feeling a wave, it was a couple of quick BANGS.

[noelex 77]

I have deleted several posts in this thread.

Cruising Forum is not an appropiate place for political posts that have no relevence to sailing.

[Cadence]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

I think the genset is required to run the watermaker. The tanks are required to store the water produced in open water for use when anchored - you do not run the watermaker in lagoons, bays and rivers - think of the fallout and the washoff (no longer sewage treatment ashore - all crap goes to the rivers and then into the bays ....).

Still, it all works only as long as your diesel tank lasts, or at best till that RO unit needs a new membrane ...

We cannot go long without society and technology. And these two will be absent past the doomsday.

Indeed surviving a major collapse of our civilisation could be much worse than any other option.

If I think the doomsday is coming, I am throwing a wild party, get completely wiped out and then we will see how it all develops. ;-)

Cheers,
b.

I would like an invite to the party. We think alike.

[IdoraKeeper]

Originally Posted by Kenomac

We can live a very long time on 225 gallons of diesel.

Yes but not long enough to weather a sustained attack of the pajama people.

[Kenomac]

Originally Posted by IdoraKeeper

Yes but not long enough to weather a sustained attack of the pajama people.

No pajama people in Italy, only the well-dressed in designer clothing.

Motivation alone seems to be enough to hold off the pajama people in the US, they'd first need to put down the Cheetos.

[TrentePieds]

Hm.. You picked the wrong place Stu :-)

Cowichan ain't that far from the nuclear sub base at Bangor WA. As the US continues to alienate herself that surely has to be a prominent item on anyone's "hit list".

Let's both move up to Ocean Falls. That'd give us a few extra days before the radioactive garbage starts dropping on us.

TrentePIeds

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by pyroray

Maybe being conquered isn't so bad?

Actually he got his ass kicked..

[Cadence]

Originally Posted by noelex 77

I have deleted several posts in this thread.

Cruising Forum is not an appropiate place for political posts that have no relevence to sailing.

I may have posted some edgy? Thanks for keeping the political rhetoric out of it.

[toddster8]

Sort of... there is usually enough fuel, clothes, canned or dried food and water on board for a week, at any time. This is more so that I can cast off for a weekend cruise at a moments notice, if some free time opens up.

The most likely disaster where I live would be forest fire. We've had a couple of close calls, but no closer than "prepare to evacuate." People within a couple of miles of me have been evacuated for a week at a time. And of course, each year a few lose everything. But yeah, probably I'd evacuate to the boat, if it came to that.

But for "the big one...". Well, to reach the open ocean, I'd have to go through the navigation locks at Bonneville Dam. And get the railroad bridge to open at Portland. And have all the other bridges between here and there remain standing (not fallen into the river. And not lined with kamikaze zombies dropping onto boats, for example.) So probably not a practical doomsday plan, unless I move on board and to clear water.