I know Beast is set on his island, which of course pirates or marauders will never find, so he is good.
However, if you are thinking of living on board a boat, you want one that can carry a lot of water.
Quidnon has been designed to carry more water than normal boat.
Remember, this boat was designed not only by an engineer, but by a guy who has been living full time on a boat for a while now.
So, believe it or not, he has done some thinking about the question of fresh water.
http://quidnon.blogspot.com/2015/01/fres...oring.html
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To be useful as ballast, the water tanks have to be kept full. This, it turns out, is quite easy to arrange by using fresh water bladders made of weldable nylon floating inside tanks that are kept full of salt water, and at “boat pressure” (20 psi or so, much lower than house pressure) using a demand pump. The demand pump is turned off when filling a tank, and the bladders are sized to be somewhat larger than the tanks in which they sit, so that they are never under any pressure. This will make the bladders last a very long time, but spares would of course be carried, so that a new bladder can be swapped in if a tank starts to taste brackish. The tube that taps into a bladder will come out the top, to bleed off the gas that results when the tanks are filled with chlorinated water.
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QUIDNON has plentiful room for tankage in the awkward, otherwise useless space between the centerboard trunks and the hull. It adds up to 184 cubic feet of space, which equates to 1380 gallons (5225 liters) of tankage and 11,600 lbs of water ballast. A typical shower uses 17 gallons of water, and this means that QUIDNON's water tanks will be sufficient to provide 80 showers.
You may not agree with this method of storing water on a boat, but it is a little insane to think you are the only one who has thought about the problem of storing water on a long sea journey.
With his system, Orlov figures on having to stop once a month to stock up on water, and this is for a family that not only drinks water, and cooks with it, but one that showers.