Escoce‭

First things first. You need a sailboat in order to sail. A raft isn't navigated. It drifts and is blown around. If you have a sailboat you already have the navigation tools you need or at least m...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭

Getting rid of the subjectivity of danger, I am going to answer this for two different basic scenarios. There are so many variables that are possible within scope of the question, but I am going to...

posted 5y ago by Escoce‭

Two different kinds of wood, fiber from bark (to make the string and to hold the wood together while gluing), a knife or hatchet, pitch from a pine tree, fire to temper the wood. The stiff wood ne...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

Ice water will not kill any fish quickly. Some fish even live in ice or icy water. A tropical fish may go into shock, but it won't die right for a long time. I think people may believe the fish is ...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

That's hornwort. It grows around here too. Wonder to fish around as well as lily pads are great to fish around. Anyway, those plants grow at a depth where strong sunlight can get to it. In all nat...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭

The spine of an arrow is a measurement of its stiffness. It's is a number given in 1000ths of an inch of deflection given a certain amount of pressure. There is a great article detailing the speci...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

Shelter is by far the most important initial consideration. Since you are stranded there anyway, you will have the opportunity to move your camp. Since you specify a tropical island, you want shel...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭

If you are referring to Crataegus, then yes Hawthorne is edible, the pomes are like tiny apples with two flower spots on the bottom. It is commonly made into jelly, syrups and country wine. Regard...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

I think this is a question of sustainability. If you strip a bush of its flowers and/or fruit, then it loses the opportunity to reproduce this year, or ever in the case of annuals and/or patches of...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭

The answer is, you can do this, but I don't recommend it at all. Wallow talkie apps for the iPhone and android phones should be considered nothing except toys. Firstly, the range of wifi and Blue...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

Being a sailor rather than a rock climber, my familiarity is more with nylon 3 strand twisted ropes. With nylon twisted ropes, you can make ropes of any length without needing special splicing too...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭

You do need to rephrase the question better, but I can still provide this answer. Pike will go after anything that bass will. Spinners, plugs, jerk baits, Texas rigged worms, etc etc. just about a...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭

Listen. When it comes to lightening, pretty much all bets are off. There is very little you can do that will have any appreciate or measurable affect on the path that lightening chooses to take exc...

posted 9y ago by Escoce‭

In the civilized world you wash your hands regularly, and food handlers should so and additionally wear gloves so if they carry any pathogen, it's not transmitted to the food. We don't have that l...

posted 8y ago by Escoce‭

So after all is said and done, I called a sand blaster, but they wanted too much money to blast my small hull. Like $1000. I could buy my own equipment to do the job for that price, but I didn't wa...

posted 8y ago by Escoce‭