Survive On A Deserted Island, Water, What's In It? Patrick Childress Sailing p1#16(Fixing Sailboats) 428 2

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Survive On a Deserted Island, Water, Whats in it? Patrick Childress Sailing/Fixing Sailboats presents, In this video, TDS means Total Dissolved Solids which was misspoken. Although filmed on an uninhabited atoll, the fresh water information is valuable for any cruiser anywhere in the world; in the middle of an ocean, remote island or crowded city. Fixing Sailboats shows how to sail the world without a watermaker. How clean is rainwater? There IS fresh water on an atoll, but you must add chlorine to water found there. There are more useful sailboat How to videos and sailing tips on YouTube, at http://www.youtube.com/patrickchildress BIOT Cruising Permit Tips : http://whereisbrickhouse.com/2017/12/28/biot-chagos-permit-application-information-reprinted-from-my-facebook-post/ **As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases** #PatrickChildressSailing #WhereisBrickHouse #BluewaterSailboat

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Play b4work - 6 years ago

I have to disagree with your R/O TDS levels, because my R/O system is regularly below 10TDS. and with some DI resin you can get 0 TDS. I change my R/O membrane ounce I reach over 20 TDS.

wayne mazan - 6 years ago

Very good, thank you I'm ordering my test kits now !!!

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

I use those test kits everywhere. Here in Tanzania the locals drink the tap water but the microbe test turns black no matter what faucet I test the water from. Surprisingly, the TDS is only 94 PPM, better than most sailboat water makers. A little chlorine and this water is fine.

Star Light - 6 years ago

I learned more for this episode than all of SV Delos ! Wow

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

Star Light, that is what I was hoping for. Thanks.

etravix - 6 years ago

Very informative video. Thanks for sharing. I took the scare pirates path to get here. Now I will watch all your videos.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

etravix, thanks for coming on board.

marc kessels - 6 years ago

Very informative videos from SV Brick House. Big tick of approval Thanks.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

Marc, Thanks for watching.

G S - 6 years ago

Hi Patric, what do you think about adding a UV filter in line for boat H2O ? It could be powered off the inverter ? This would illimnate the need for chlorine which has been linked to cancer?

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

It seems everything has been linked to cancer, especially in California. Millions of people would be dead if chlorine was not used to kill pathogens in water. Just set a bowl of water out for a few days and you will see it turns slimy and changes color. There are millions of mildew spores in every breath we inhale plus bacteria free floating in the atmosphere. All that gets into your water tank and will start growing. Leave it too long and you will have a real polluted swamp in your fresh water tank. It is good to have a clear viewing port, or a removable access to look inside a fresh water tank to monitor how much muck is gathering inside. It might be nice to have a filter and maybe a U.V. light after the tank but you are increasing their work load by not keeping the tank free of naturally growing contaminants. I would be more concerned about breathing the pollution and auto emissions near a city than that little bit of chlorine.

icewall flatearth - 6 years ago

hmm...

cameron Gibbs - 6 years ago

This guy on a forum says it is safe to dilute your drinking water of 10 liters fresh to 2 liters salt .I think its a stupid idea ,what is your opinion

cameron Gibbs - 6 years ago

+Patrick Childress Sailing Thanks for the reply

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

Long ago there was a French man named Alyan Bombard who drifted across the Atlantic in a life raft to test his sea survival theories. He started out sipping very small amounts of sea water and gradually increased the amount. He also caught rain water when possible. He made it across the Atlantic. Salt in too high a quantity would be a diuretic, like coffee, tea, soda, beer etc. and will cause dehydration. While living in cold New England, where we sweat very little, most people get plenty of salt from the foods they eat and would be taking in too much salt if they add more from a shaker. Too much salt and ones internal moisture would try to rid the body of excess salt causing dehydration, if no fresh water is ingested. In the tropics, we sweat a lot. Sometimes, while snorkeling on the reefs, I will get a bad cramp in my toes or leg. I take in 3 gulps of sea water and in in a couple minutes the cramps do not return. If I do not take in that salty, bad tasting, sea water, the cramps will not go away no matter what I do. So there is a chemical balance that has to be maintained. Too much salt and you dehydrate. Too little salt and there are other complications. Unless one is in a real survival situation and stretching their water, why add salt to fresh water. Silly idea and especially saying it is "safe" to do . It depends on the person and situation. A different topic: On ocean crossings, I have had crew get inexplicable, terrible, headaches that would not go away. That is one sign of dehydration even though no one is sweating and no one was malnourished. Too much coffee, tea or soda will cause the headaches and the only remedy is to drink as much fresh water as possible to rehydrate.

George Moore - 6 years ago

That was super interesting about testing the water. And what a surprise about rain water too.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

George, Thanks for watching.

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TheMusicrox4 - 6 years ago

If you like water, you already like 65% of me!

Rebecca Childress - 6 years ago

I hope you are all following our blog too...www.WhereIsBrickHouse.com

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

TM4, thanks for watching.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

In most places we have been sailing, the water from a stream or well is far clearer than the river or lake water U.S. municipalities use in their initial process to make drinking water. In an emergency, using your suggested method would certainly be worth the effort if one could not boil or add chlorine or iodine to the water.

SailnBlue - 6 years ago

In primitive environments, if you can scrounge up a clear glass jug or (Yes, I know, plastic, but your life might be at stake) and leave water jug a couple of solar cycles, it kills almost everything. It's the UV action on microbes that does the trick. It is important to run the water through some kind of filter fabric to get it reasonably clear first so that you get good light penetration..

Lowell Monette - 6 years ago

Thanks for the videos, I learned a lot about how I should be maintaining the water on my boat. Can you post the brand of testers and kits that you're using?

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

Hi Lowell, Thanks for watching. The TDS, Total Dissolved Solids meter is a "Digital Aid, Blue TDS Meter". Rebecca bought it on Amazon. To test for chlorine, if you live in Florida, you can buy a swimming pool test kit at nearly any hardware store. Much farther north, like in Rhode Island, specifically, a pool supply company will have them. They are cheap and easy to use. The Hach Company makes the Pathoscreen. Their site does not show a price. I got my supply from the Environmental Protection Agency in the Marshall Islands. https://www.hach.com/pathoscreen-field-test-kit/product?id=7640249603 I just tested the water at the dock here in Mauritius with the Pathoscreen and it showed the water is safe to drink and can be put in our tanks without any further treatment. TDS is 86 so this water is far better than most cruisers RO water, and a lot cheaper....like free.

SV Impavidus (Ant & Cid Sailing) - 6 years ago

Thanks for sharing your knowledge it was very interesting. Now watch ing you other vids and sharing on our Facebook page. Ant & Cid xx

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

Thank you Ant and Cid for the positive comment and a big thank you for the sharing. It is a lot of fun work putting the videos together.

ScubaTony Anschutz - 6 years ago

Great stuff. I have a rain catchment system planned for my boat and have been researching how to treat it. this was very helpful. Thank you.

ScubaTony Anschutz - 6 years ago

INdeed. I have not seen them either. Perhaps the agenda now is to push water makers and sell more products?

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

Scuba Tony. Thanks for viewing the video and the positive
comment. I was fortunate to cross oceans in the late 1970s and early 1980s,
long before there were water makers for yachts. Because of that life style, it
is not in my head to think of a RO water maker as necessary equipment. We have
a water maker on Brick House but we don’t use it. In 11 years we have never
needed it. There is nothing that a municipal water board does to treat water
that we can’t do on our boat. But the water we start with is far cleaner than
any lake or river water in the U.S.. Long ago, there was always an article in the cruising magazines about how to set up water catchment systems on a sailboat and how to treat water to keep it drinkable. Haven’t seen an article like that in many years.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

Thank you, Econo Traveller!

Tim Whelan - 6 years ago

Excellent information -- thanks for taking the time to make your videos Patrick!

Tim Whelan
Patience - Cape George 38

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

Thanks for the positive comment, Tim. We see so much out here, in the way of useful information, it is fun to share it with others.

Greg Shand - 6 years ago

TDS is Total Disolved Solids

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

Yes Greg, I don’t know how I misspoke that yet my bad hearing didn’t catch the error when watching the clip. Thanks for pointing out this important error. Total Dissolved Solids.

Travel By Water - 6 years ago

Very interesting.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 6 years ago

Thanks for watching.

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