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– Keith
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A technical question. With 3 adults on board how much fresh water do you consume each day and how often do you run your water maker to replenish your supply? Do you find times that you would not operate your water maker? Is there any changes you have made to your consumption because of the watermaker? Many thanks, enjoy reading your postings. Cheers!
Bob,
Belatedly, here is the information you requested. Captain Wolf quickly responded to your inquiry through my email, and I have been negligent forwarding his response here. My apologies. Here is Wolf’s response:
“I can give you some Fresh Water information:
I’d estimate after 3-4 days running we consume approx 280 gls. of FW among 4 crew members. That’s with at least 2 people doing laundry which goes through a lot of FW. We might use about 180 gls. in 3 days and go through an additional 100 gls. for laundry for a total of 280 gls.
“The water tank holds 600 gls. The 240 volt watermkr. produces 32GPH and the back-up 24volt watermkr. produces 12GPH. We run them both whether there is a need for water or not, because they want to be constantly run (the systems like to be flushed). When we are underway, on the average, the big watermaker runs every 3 days, all day long, to keep up with consumption. I would say, because we have two relaible watermakers on hand, we have a ready supply of water to splash around.
“Before I left Palau we installed a filtering system for shore FW going into our tank.”
–Keith
Keith,
We listen to your show every week, and have for years. Your financial analysis is greatly appreciated and your insights provide valuable information beyond what can be found elsewhere. We recently subscribed to high speed Internet, partially influenced by your show so we can experience your adventure through the photographs and videos you so kindly share. You not only get our attention for three hours each Sunday, but now we visit your web site on a regular basis. Keep up the good work and may your journey be exciting and safe.
Bob and Patty Plack
Thanks, Bob and Patty!
–Keith
Keith……..
Great job with the show from overseas. I’ve also enjoyed the website and the Ohio pictures are as much fun as the mainland China pictures.
My wife and son and I will be moving to the Lafayette Indiana area whenever our home here in the valley sells. As a regular listener to your show, I am as impressed with the political/social commentary as the investment insights. Having spent 26 years in financial services, before retiring last year, I know your suggestions are sound and time-tested.
If we end up staying in Phoenix (because of the current housing market), I will have to talk you into lunch sometime. It is not everyday that I find someone so like-minded who is a principal in a financial services company. It would be worth coming out of retirement.
All the Best,
Richard
RICHARD,
You betcha. I look forward to it. And thanks for the URL offer. I am passing it on to my webmaster.
–Keith
Thanks, Don!
–Keith
Hi Keith,
I love the photos on your web site. Just one minor change. One of the photos with you, Dermot and Larry, you put his name down as Bill.
Hope to see you and your crew again.
Kaud
I”ll fix it right away, Kaud.
–Keith
Keith,
I have been following your adventures from the start. I am currently in the middle of a second career. I am in PA medical school, so my question is medical in nature. I am interested in the medical care available to the cruising community, and also the smaller islands of the South Pacific. What is their availability and access to medical care. I have several friends who own Nordhavns, and I am sold on the boat. My plan is to join the community, and hopefully have a mobile medical clinic, as sort of a way to avoid a return to the land of “carpet dwellers”. I would love to get yours, and any of the others on board, feelings on this. Thank you in advance.
Curtis
Curtis,
For medical protection while traveling, we use a company called MedLink, which, coincidentally, is based in Phoenix. They are widely used by Americans who take their yachts into foreign waters as most U.S. medical plans provide limited coverage abroad.
Medlink outfitted our ship with all sorts of lifesaving equipment, and provides training if requested. They will also cover medical expenses just about anywhere; and in a pinch, will medevac you or your remains back to the U.S. You can reach them at 1-800-603-6332, or at 602-417-3385.
As far as the quality of medical care available where we’ve been so far, I think the answer is that it would greatly disappoint most Americans. I understand there are private clinics in the Philippines, for example, and probably elsewhere as well, that provide fairly high-quality care. But the quality of care for most people where we’ve been — in both private and socialized systems — is not anywhere near U.S. standards.
When Lynn took our son, Mac, to a hospital in Singapore for an ear infection, for example, she was told it was the best hospital in town. Yet it was like traveling into the 1950s. Sanitation and was awful, and supplies were antiquated.
You may take assertions from the likes of that idiot Michael Moore that America’s health care ranks 54th (or some such ridiculous number) in the world only as proof positive that untreated degenerative brain disease continues to flourish among America’s liberal community.
Keith