Prepping My Boat for the End of the World

[hummingway]

Originally Posted by MarkJ

I need to know how armadeddonish will armageddon be?????????????

Are the armadeddonish the ones who where black hats and suits and drive horse and buggy?

[MarkJ]

Originally Posted by Pete7

oh and a bible.

Pete

Whats the use of the Bible? Won't God (et al) have taken all the righteous? Its a bit late for (YOU) sinners?

I expect to be in the tier not taken to heven (with virgins if I was Muslim) but to languish on a ribald Earth, having to survive and lap up a bit of global Gommorah....

It could be tough ....

[zeehag]

naah--them is amish--they like peace....
i think armageddonish might be a lot noisier than the amish...???

[Blue Stocking]

Originally Posted by zeehag

naah--them is amish--they like peace....
i think armageddonish might be a lot noisier than the amish...???

zee--sometimes I worry about you ROFLMAO

[zeehag]

Originally Posted by Blue Stocking

zee--sometimes I worry about you ROFLMAO

lol--someone's got to...mom gave up on me -- she got too many grey hairs...LOL..she is still alive and kicking but doesnt worry too much anymore-- she knows i come thru.LOL...

oh, yes-a good book of myths and legends is always welcome...

so many uses foe shears and scissors..LOL...mustnt be forgot....

.

[Doodles]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

Pushed to the edge by posts in another thread, I am prepping my boat for the end of the world:

- the engine out of its pit and to be attached under the keel,
- converting her to a junk rig,
- getting 6 sets of Sunbrella made sails in China,
- a barrel of epoxy, 6 barrels of antifouling,
- 12 reels of Poly rope,
- 6 sextants, 6 clocks, 6 sets of assorted tools,
- wood burning galley stove ...

Anything else?

b.

Best advice I ever saw on the subject was this:

Chris Lisle, 2005
"Preparing for peak oil can be relatively easy, since the preparation is 75 percent mental, 15 percent physical, and 10 percent fiscal. Don't be flabbergasted at what to do. Quit asking should I buy solar? Should I buy an axe? Should I buy a gun? The answers are no, no, and no... This feeling of a need to buy stuff is in fact the very reason why we have this predicament. We over consume. The preparation problem is not addressed by buying more stuff; it's addressed by mentally and physically getting used to the idea of getting by on less stuff."

[Islandmike]

RUM....

[atoll]

definitely rum, nubile women , seeds, spades and a still.
oh and maybe a hamock to conduct and oversee the the work from..................

[SabreKai]

Originally Posted by Pete7

oh and a bible.

Pete

Ummm you'd do better with a couple of pulp novels. Bible paper is too crinkly to make good bumwipe. Not to mention its a boring read before you turn it into bumwipe.

I dare say that if things go blooey, those of us at sea or far away from what we laughing call civilization will be better off. We may not live any longer but the idea of 2.2million starving Torontonians rampaging around my neighbourhood makes bobbing round like a cork 1o miles off shore seem like the way to go.

+1 on all the nubile breeding stock comments. Especially the one about locks n ear plugs.


Sabre

[hummingway]

Originally Posted by SabreKai

Ummm you'd do better with a couple of pulp novels. Bible paper is too crinkly to make good bumwipe. Not to mention its a boring read before you turn it into bumwipe.

I dare say that if things go blooey, those of us at sea or far away from what we laughing call civilization will be better off. We may not live any longer but the idea of 2.2million starving Torontonians rampaging around my neighbourhood makes bobbing round like a cork 1o miles off shore seem like the way to go.

+1 on all the nubile breeding stock comments. Especially the one about locks n ear plugs.


Sabre

With 2.2 well fed Torontonians run around the boat seems like the way to go!

[barnakiel]

OK. Then rhum seems very high on the end of the world list.

But - how do we make rum?

I know how to make bush beer of mangoes and cheap wine of forest berries.

I imagine one chews the cane and spits it out and then it ferments. But how do we get the amberish-caramelish colour?

b.

[zeehag]

rum is distilled sugarcane spirits. made from caramelized sugercane. somehow...

i will buy an axe, if for no other reason than to open coconutzz...LOL....and protect my rum....i found a cute lil one made by coleman.... complete with sheath...

[hummingway]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

OK. Then rhum seems very high on the end of the world list.

But - how do we make rum?

I know how to make bush beer of mangoes and cheap wine of forest berries.

I imagine one chews the cane and spits it out and then it ferments. But how do we get the amberish-caramelish colour?

b.

When you boil the sugar cane you burn it like molasses, or scald it like butterscotch or say the hell with it and make straight cane alcohol

[zeehag]

caramel is just burned sugar... butterscotch is less burnt sugar... molasses is burned cane .. blackstrap is the gunk onthe bottom of the container used for the making of molasses.... or rum..... or refined sugar----

[Pete7]

Originally Posted by MarkJ

Whats the use of the Bible? Won't God (et al) have taken all the righteous? Its a bit late for (YOU) sinners?

The bible will be needed at the service to marry one of those nubile virgins

However, you might have problems finding a minister of the cloth, but should be plenty of bankers around, they always seem to survive, just like cockroaches.

Pete