On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:50 AM, PeterO <rebyl_kayak_at_energysustained.com>wrote: > > Another expedition supply issue in our neck of the woods is potable water - > wonder what the most inventive desalinator might be for kayaking! > > We were still cruising on our sailboat when affordable small desalinators began to make an appearance on the market. I had one but didn't install it before we returned to the USA. A cruising buddy of ours had one and loved it but had to be careful about where he was when he used it. Inside a harbor was almost never the right place but anchored somewhere out in clear water in a nice cove was fine. It gave him much better water than the water he could typically get in most tropical marinas and also got him out of the marina twice a week. They had hand-operated reverse-osmosis (pump type) desalinators but it took a LOT of strokes to get only a little bit of water. And finding a good, clean, supply of salt water to pump when you're kayaking might make for a lot of standing about in hip-deep water for an hour or two. :P But perhaps they've improved that technology a bit. Craig *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jun 23 2011 - 06:54:54 PDT
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