(26 April 2013, 20:51)Binnie Wrote: Been watching some doomsday preppers on tv. I'm getting good at spotting flaws in plans lol.
You'd have to sail faster than the wind to outrun the cloud of nasty stuff you are trying to outrun.
Worst case scenario, 30kt northwesterly wind, are you really gonna outrun that cloud??? I'm sure your 10k would be better spent elsewhere to be honest.
I don't think our whole grid would fail, from what I've read our grids lattice design offers some protection from emps etc.
Binnie, don't believe everything you see on TV!
The winds in the northern hemisphere are predominately out of the west - radiation clouds would be blown east. That's why my question was framed as sailing westward into the Atlantic. 30kt winds out of the NW with me tacking WSW or even SSW into the Atlantic from, say Padstow in Cornwall would be blowing the bad stuff in the opposite direction, away from me and my boat, so, yes, in this situation I really will outrun that cloud, since it's behind me and going in the opposite direction from me.
With this in mind, my original question still stands.
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