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Originally Posted by joelhemington
Show me a thirty foot boat that will hold enough fresh water to get from the Cook Islands or Hawaii to the Solomons (which would be the next available fresh water)... Yes you can set up a catchment system but you'd be counting on rain. During a dry spell nobody in Kiribati (which is also on catchment) will be letting you fill up. Making that trip without at least a hand held water maker ($900 Katadyn) is foolhardy and should not be encouraged.
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HA to CookIsl is 3169nm. Let's call it 3200nm. Let's assume the boat averages 100nm/d. That's slightly conservative for a 30' boat but that's good for planning purposes.
Person needs 1gal/d which provides some comfort on top of bare minimum (0.5gal/d.).
So that means he/she needs 32gal bare minimum no stops no problems.
Let's double that to 64gal to account for hangups, problems, and just plain old stopping on the way and visiting places. That assumes there is no catchment along the way. Heck let's be really conservative and up that to 70gal to be really conservative.
Don't tell me the OP can't find space for 70gal on a 30' boat.