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When crossing the Pacific via the milk run you can be over a 1000 mls from
land and from countries with limited resources. The route is off the main
shipping lanes so it could take a long time to get rescued. Other sailboats
don't all monitor distress frequencies.
Barry
"Illusion III"
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From: "Cam, Lee, Maya & Fynn" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Desalination system for life raft/ditch bag
> Judy,
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> We too are planning on crossing the Pacific (again, but this time will be
on our own boat not someone else's) Any way I have thought about the
portable H20 Maker, and after some consideration it is not very high on my
list. Reasons are as follow's
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> 1. Just upgraded our Life Raft and got a 6 man Offshore - food and water
for 6 people for 7 days (there are only 4 of us Myself, My Wife and the two
Kids - currently 5 & 4
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> 2. The new EPIRB with GPS takes less than 30sec to send your exact
position to Search and Rescue. - Hopefully you won't need it!!!!!!!
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> 3. Having run boats between NZ and Aus including 2 Pacific Crossing and
seen and tried the portable H2O Maker, personally I would rather conserve my
energy. As don't let the pump type fool you - to get about a glass of water
is alot of work and a lot of energy spent. This was a test ONLY never had
to really use it.
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> 4. If your SSB, VHF, etc is all set up you would be surprised at how many
boats/ships are all part of GMDSS.
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> Please don't get me wrong - I'll probably still get one for piece of mind,
but just right now it's not to high on the list. Modern technology has come
a long way over the past few years
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> Hope this helps
> Cameron
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Judy
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> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:17 AM
> Subject: [world-cruising] Desalination system for life raft/ditch bag
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> Since this group is so quiet, I will start a topic. We are
> considering cruising the South Pacific next year. This would be our
> first time crossing an ocean and we obviously would want to add a
> desalination system of some kind to our ditch bag/life raft. I am
> just starting to research what units are currently on the market (with
> the slowest internet connection that you can imagine). Saw the recent
> posting about the new system using sugar and thought this might be a
> good topic to raise on this group list.
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> Any recommendations? Obviously want something small with capability
> of potable water production sufficient for 2 people.
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> Judy
> S/V BeBe
> Amel SM2 #387
> currently berthed Cartagena, Colombia
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