You’re not going to fail. It’s not even that hard. If you can understand whatever branch of science you are in, you can certainly understand how to do all of the independent from land stuff. It’s actually quite interesting to the scientific mind. I am a former physicist. We have another former physicist on here and probably others we are not even aware of. There are many, many engineers. And even more tech people . Goes to show you that education pays doesn’t it?
In any case, this is a good thread. I thoroughly enjoy these topics and explored them about 15 or 20 years ago. In
depth. Full-time. I even went and experimented to see what it would be like to try to live without
money at sea. The short answer is you are always going to need an
anchor or some thing and you can’t make those yourself at sea. So you will never be independent on a
boat. Sorry to burst your bubble in that respect. But you will always be dependent on land for
equipment. The only way you could get around this is to build the boat out of
wood that you saw yourself. And even then, you still need that
anchor. You would have to grow some hemp amd make
rope. Go ashore to build a
DIY kiln and try to make an anchor if you can find the metal.
All in all it cannot
work. It is actually impossible to remove yourself completely from society.
However, you can stay out for a very long amount of time. In modern days, The
food will be the first thing to run out. That is the one to solve. Also you don’t want to eat boring things and you don’t want to deprive yourself of nutrition because you’re going to die early. Or just be very sick all the time. So it’s quite important to get fresh vegetables, fruit, etc.
When it comes to
water, we now have
water makers and enough
solar to run them.
Lithium batteries. If you bring a duplicate
water maker you might be out there for a decade without having to come back. For water anyway.
But there is yet another way to do all of this.
Low tech and simple. Water
tanks. Rain catchment. Bleach. Proper filtration. Foot pumps. Or just no running water at all and you get it out of a spigot on the tank.
These types of primitive set ups last forever.
I keep meaning to get my
water maker going. What I have right now is just a 50 gallon water tank and a foot
pump that goes through a carbon filter. It’s fantastic. When I want hot water? I put a pot on the
stove.
This is because my boat is not complete. I am still building it.
However, if I just left it as it is, it would
work forever. Until that foot
pump broke. But they seem to last decades.
My point is if you have a pressurized water system you will need to carry spare pumps because pumps go bad.
There is a lot to think and dream about. The more complicated you make it, the more it will break and the more you will need land. That is the golden
rule. Even though you will have all of that
equipment aboard, (the electronics), you will not want complexity in the rest of your boat if you can help it. Otherwise you will have to keep returning to land for
parts. When things break.
Thank you for starting this thread. I haven’t finished the inside of my boat yet and it’s reminding me to keep things simple. Can’t wait to see where the thread goes. This is a very interesting topic to me.
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