You CAN drink anything you want, seawater, diesel fuel, acetone.... The question is, how long will you survive????????

 

There was actually a frenchmen (can't remember his name right now) that sailed across the atlantic ocean in an open dinghy with almost no supplies to prove that a man could survive in a life raft. He drank seawater to help keep himself hydrated. HOWEVER he did so only in small enough amounts that the amount of salt he was ingesting was no more than you would in a normal day. This turned out to be right around a pint of seawater a day. This cannot be done without some other form of hydration but can add to a limited supply of water. This technique was up for enormous debate even when this frenchmen did it, and that was back in maybe 1930 or 40. And I doubt anyone has been stupid enough to try any further research into the subject willingly. By the way, the frenchmen did make it.

 

As to #2, many people are building wooden boats in their garage, you'll have to be more specific with what that would have to do with flicka's etc..

 

Someone, I don't remember who, in the flicka thread mentioned building a boat in the garage. It didn't have anything to do with the flicka. I've wanted to do this for some time, but I don't have the room. I'd like to see anything anyone has built or is building.

 

2. Someone is building a wooden boat in his garage. Please post some pictures.

Given the amount of rain we've had in the last couple of weeks I wouldn't be surprised if his name was Noah.

 

I have Two questions about the (now closed) flika thread.
1. The father said you can drink sea water. Anybody else heard of this?

2. Someone is building a wooden boat in his garage. Please post some pictures.

Yes, you can drink seawater. There was a somewhat eccentric French physician who proved this. The trick is that you have to drink the seawater in combination with some freshwater before you're too dehydrated. If you drink seawater when you're dehydrated it will probably kill you--since the seawater will pull water out of your body to dilute it.

Lots of people are building boats in their garages. Can you be a bit more specific???

 

Drinking seawater is an excellent way to maintain electrolyte balance at sea, especially when consuming water produced via reverse osmosis water-makers.

 

I started building this boat in my two bedroom apartment, then moved it to the mother-in-law's garage!

 

I started building this boat in my two bedroom apartment, then moved it to the mother-in-law's garage!

Do you have circumsion goals though?

 

http://audiofiles1.jerryseinfeld.nl/finger.ram

 

If I did I would probably have to drink saltwater, i didn't think about water tankage during construction.

 

Nice design - nice work btw...

 

Nice kayak! Any others? My wife thinks garages are for cars (silly woman).
Until I convince her she's wrong I have to live vicariously through other's boat building projects.

 

Madseiler
If you want to read about lots of boats being built in garages (and other places), check out wooden boat forum. Many great stories, usually with good pictures also. (But beware "The Bilge", it makes our "Off Topic" look like a church social.)

http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/

 

I'm sure the Harley looks better in the bedroom anyways!

 

Well I built my stripper canoe in the LIVING ROOM. Nailed the sawhorses to the subfloor through the carpet so they wouldn't move. Wife (now XW!) didn't get TOO upset except when I didn't pick up the wood shavings and the cat would drag them through the house.
Sold the canoe a few years later and used the $$ to buy a bandsaw.

 

I had a strippoer on my boat once since my XW did not want to help me work with my wood.

Did not involve a canoe though.

 

What has circumcision got to do with boats and seawater??? Maybe sea water would hurt too much to wash up afterwards?? Even if I build a boat no circumcision for me!!!! Nowif I ever get the right boat a circumnavigation would be possible.

 

The French doctor was Alain Bombard and he did the crossing in a 15 ft inflatable in the 1950s. He is the founder of Zodiac.

 

The NorSea 27 vs. the Flicka

I know most of you are aware of Heather and her father Gene, and Heather's recent aborted circumnavigation attempt in s/v Flight of Years, her Flicka.

I was recently reading a back issue of Blue Water Sailing... from May of 2007. In it, I found a letter to the editor that read:

Don't forget the Nor'Sea 27

How can you do a squib on Great Small Cruisers (BWS March 2007) and leave out the safest, strongest, sweetest and most seaworthy one of all times, the Nor'sea 27.

Which of those others has done five flawless circumnavigations, including one around Cape Horn, plus 150 Atlantic and Pacific crossings?

If my daughter Heather didn't love her subscription to Blue Water Sailng so much, she would probably cancel you out for this affront-then I wouldn't be able to enjoy your magazine free of charge each month.

Heather, forever 39, divorced and with a son in the Naval Academy and a daughter graduating from college with a double Russian major, has sold her real estate business and her home, cars and all worldly goods are up on the block. She has ordered a new Nor'sea 27, and as soon as it is finished she is going to embark from Steinhatchee, Fla., on the Gulf Coast, for a protracted solo circumnavigation.

And with 50 years of ocean sailing experience in small boats, I wouldn't let her leave the dock in any other boat.

Dr. Gene Neill
Mayo, FL

I found the letter a bit humorous, given everything that's happened since in the last 10 months. I guess the Flicka wasn't considered a seaworthy boat in Gene's opinion... and maybe that's the problem.

 

Dawg...that is a hoot. Good dig! Personal opinion is that Heather is just fine as a person...but Gene is not someone I'd want to crew with... to put it charitably!

 

I thought it was rather funny, in light of Heather having a Flicka... and how emphatic Gene's letter was about the qualities of the Nor'Sea 27. I wonder if that 50 years includes the stint he did in Hotel Greybar. Last I checked, they don't have a marina there.

I don't blame Heather for putting off her circumnavigation, especially since it seems that it was more her father's dream than hers...

 

May 2007 was during the time frame she was actually preparing the flicka isn't it?
Is there just a LITTLE bit of dishonesty here or what?

 

Well, s/v Flight of Years was bought in late April, so yes, she was working on the boat in May 2007... but given the lead times of magazines, I am guessing the letter was written in March 2007 at the latest, since they generally have about four-to-six week lead time on magazines.

I don't think any intentional dishonesty is involved, since Gene and Heather were in negotiations to buy a new Nor'Sea 27 as I recall it, but got taken to the cleaners in some way in the process.

 

He sure likes the word flawless alot

 

LOL... Gene seems to have very strong opinions himself, but seems to dislike anyone disagreeing with him.

 

You can't pick your relatives.

 

Very true...

 

He ended up leaving the forum because because he wasn't the most qualified sailor here and realized that he wasn't the big fish considering the goal he was trying achieve through his daughter...Kinda akin to a con artist that realizes the jig is up and the trade can not be applied here...If he was a reasonable sailor he would of cared less one way or the other and just left his opinions as his opinions...After all we all are pretty opinionated about what works for us....the better sailor does listen and probably actually tries contrarian ways to solve a problem or implement a solution (just never says anything unless it works for them)....Always makes for interesting reflection however...