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From: Len den Besten (no email)
Date: Sun Apr 09 2006 - 09:09:23 EDT
Hi Eric,
I get your drift. Regarding the Pur and on a superficial level we
just don't like the idea of depending on a (more or less) major
pumping effort. But maybe we'll get one (still a year to go before
we really toss the lines). Till now this purchase has no real
priority and we stumbled on the solar-still and now the X-pack,
thanks to Brian. I see these two products as adding sensible
redundancy, not occupying much space in the raft and surely not
expensive. And I answered the question: who knows another not so
expensive way of getting water in diff circ....
And, coming to think about it more seriously, maybe we are a bit
overrating the probability of a speedy rescue as a result of the 2
epirbs, one in the cockpit, one in the liferaft. But now I am
diabolically adding to the (naturally totally wrong) impression you
seem to have have of our financial means... :-)
All in fun,
Fair winds,
Len.
--- In , "cirejay" <cirejay at dot dot dot > wrote:
>
> --- In , "Len den Besten"
> <lendenbesten@> wrote:
> >
> > In a life-raft situation redundancy could mean the diff between
> > making it or not. I plan to buy the Xpack Bryan pointed our
> > attention to and store it in the liferaft next to my 2 solar
> stills
> > that (hopefully) will yield enough for 2 without any effort.
>
> Len, I'm all for redundancy but, for the life of me, I can't
figure
> why, with all the money you seem to be shelling out (based on
other
> post) you wouldn't have a the 06 RO watermaker. They are
relatively
> cheap and they work in the dark, in rough conditions - not unusual
> in a life raft - and on cloudy days.
>
> While the 06 takes a fair amount of effort, believe me deploying
and
> working that solar still will take more effort that one might
> think. The solar still seems great if one intends to spend all
> one's time in the tropics and one is sure that he/she will not be
> spending any length of time in the raft, in rough conditions.
>
> May none of us ever have to use our survival gear in other than
test
> conditions,
>
> eric S/V Nebaras
>
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