Posts by James Jenkins
Getting out is not the hard part. It is getting in and going again without getting wet. To get out: If the beach is large enough come in sideways, lean away from shore to as you beach. when the...
Based on the information available in your current question. There should be hoses attached to the three 'holes' you don't regularly plug. Inspect all the hoses from all the 'holes', repair or rep...
which is the best moment in order not to endanger the species? Pacific salmon only spawn once in their life. At the point when they have spawned they are generally not considered eatable. The...
You have 3 scenarios for usage Everyday (going from home to work and back) Backpacking Exercise None of these have any reasonable need for vacuum insulation. A vacuum flask (also known as a...
You are overthinking this. The dates on food, don't mean they are expired, they are the date the manufacture wants to you buy a new one if you haven't eaten it yet. Are Dates for Food Safet...
I am planning an adventure, and realized that while I will have one able bodied paddler, I will likely have two canoes of load. In thinking about it, I have imagined several scenarios where this m...
In this answer at; I am lost, I found a trail, which way do I go? It claims ...logging roads These may extend many miles into the forest, with multiple branches, all ending in dead ends. There...
There are some good answers about trails that I am not going to expand on. For roads that are not heavily used like logging roads These may extend many miles into the forest, with multiple branc...
If I am lost in the woods, and I find a trail or a road, how do I decide which way to go? Autumn Veatch was 16 years old in 2015, when her grandparents small plane crashed in the North Cascade Mo...
There have been a few Atlantic and Pacific row boat crossings. Poor weather is a significant risk. While it might be nice to row with the wind at your aft (back of boat), it might also be nice to...
If your lost for days, setting up a refuge is the last thing you want to do. People make themselves a camp and sit there and die. Her cell phone couldn’t get a signal. Instead of continuing to...
Inspired by a recent question. If I want to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a boat, what are the shortest and longest possible crossing sites? Where crossing = going from one continent to another wh...
AWD (All Wheel Drive) is available in many small cars and 'cross over' vehicles. You don't need to choose an SUV to have it. Note that Four Wheel Drive (4WD or 4X4) is different then AWD. If you...
I know that rabbits eat their droppings (cecotropes) and I have heard of feeding rabbit droppings to pigs. Rabbits are vegetarians. There droppings do not have the same consistency or negative sec...
There are a couple of long quality answers. This is the short simple version. There are either berries or not, if there are berries, and you know they are safe, eat them. If your sitting and wai...
You don't need a 'bonafide sunfish hull', but there is not a lot of standardization across manufactures for small sail craft. Many parts are custom built for each make/model. Different boats re...
If you are going with a cooler in your scenario, I would get a soft sided cooler with wheels Random Example on Amazon I have one at home that folds up nicely, the example I used has a hard insert....
You can test it at home. Make you own salt water by adding 35grams of salt to a liter of water. Desalinate the water to a new container, and measure the salinity with a hydrometer. one of lo...
There are large areas of the ocean that are essentially lifeless, often called ocean deserts. If I am traveling the ocean, and not familiar with potential sea life in the area, can I tell from clu...
If you are fishing in the ocean off the United States Coast. At what distance from shore do US fishing laws no longer apply? The US Coast Guard listes, boundaries at 12, 24 and 200 Miles. Ma...
First there are legal limits, these vary by species and the legal body with control over the body of water. Second physical (without regard for the law) catch limits are boundless. The right bait...
I was looking into portable desalination hand pumps. and I found this one one Amazon for $959 it says the Katadyn Survivor 06 is the world's smallest hand-operated desalinator and can easily fi...
In the answer to Can I get fresh water from ocean fish flesh? I learned that the water I can get from eating fish has a low enough salt content that it will hydrate me, BUT the high protein count w...
Ocean water has about 35 Grams of salt per liter. For the human body salt content in body fluids is about 9 Grams per liter. See related question How much sea water can I safely drink? While it ...
Many but not all sailboats have numbers displayed on their sail, what do those numbers mean? I am looking for a general answer, not one specific to the random example image below. example image f...
