Having recently gotten addicted to being on the water, I looked at the site and thought, “How could this be done… realistically.”

The first thing I did was look at the proposed boats involved. Of all of them, I think that the “Skippy” has the most potential. The “Kodoku” is similarly designed, and would be a prime contender as well. I considered the time constraints of the longest legs and how to pack that much food. And water. I concluded that fresh water might be a problem. What about desalinators? Though expensive, one would be a necessary addition. Excess fresh water could be stored as ballast.

In order to keep the desalinator working along with the necessary navigation equipment, I’d add solar panels lining the majority of the top and sides of the hull. By integrating them into the hull, they would be less efficient, but securely out of the way of the boat’s operation. Electrical power would be stored in deep-cycle marine batteries or well-sealed lithium ion batteries. I’d look into a backup system with wither a bicycle crank, surf-power, or kinetic generator. In fact, a backup bicycle powered propeller might be nice to add as well.

Now, for food, if you can create enough fresh water could be done by freeze-dried meals or retort packaging (MRE) if not or a combination.

Between compact meals and renewable electricity and water stores, this looks almost do-able. You’d need to resupply after each major leg at least, but the possibility is definitely there.

That leads to the question of inevitable equipment failure. There is not room for any reasonable backup systems. But I may have an answer there, too! Rather than going the journey completely solo, I’d suggest a convoy of similarly build boats. This gives you safety in numbers and, worst case, someone should be able to help out of something fails.

Now we have some capability and added safety. Let’s look at the boat again.

While the Skippy and Kodoku designs are the first ones I looked at, I also came across the “MICRO 10” which I might trust a bit more, as it was designed by an experienced professional.

Plans for the MICRO 10 are about $180. With a convoy, you’d also gain the opportunity of each boat being able to film the others thus allowing for excellent documentation of the journey… the footage then would be able to be used in a film about the voyage to help raise money to repay investors in the fleet.

So am I crazy? Probably. But talk about an *ADVENTURE!*

Anyone wanna work with me on this idea?