A power boat is not a great long term idea because things break and fuel runs out and it might be a long swim back to land. A sailboat is a better idea but still not perfect.

I’ve though about a decent size sailboat and wintering in protected areas like some of the coves and inlets on the uninhabited or almost uninhabited islands off California. The problem is that many thousands of boats will be headed to those islands in the days after the outbreak and they will bring infected people with them who will become zombies shortly after they die. As likely as not there will be a lot of Zs staggering around those islands.

As for resources, in many coastal areas fishing will be easy, and as long as you can make heat a still will get you fresh water.

There will be millions of boats trying to make it all over the world, many will sink, many will start with infected people aboard and be manned by only zombies fairly soon. There will be a lot of piracy, a lot of desperate people willing to kill you or be killed by you, and while a boat is easy to defend from zombies, it’s not so easy to defend from determined groups of live attackers.

TBH if I had a large amount of man- and fire-power I’d be seriously thinking of trying to reclaim somewhere like Jersey/Guernsey as it’s a big island with very good farming, and plausable to boat into France and UK for raids. With and island like that you could really have a safe community and a life.

Islands or boats should basically be invulnerable to Z’s but beware any humans – boats and islands near a coast naturally attract attention and any lights at night will travel very far across the water. You also need a mechanic to keep the motor working or you can get yourself in real trouble.

Pretty much all of tennessee is hilly and mountainous, like northern georgia. Plenty of great places to hide a bunker. And IF I ever win the lottery, I’ll build one, and I’ll do a zombie survival camp there. Teach hand to hand, knife, and sword fighting. Survival skills, and lots of other neat things that you can use to survive.

Yeah, generally a bunker is built like that.

@ Sharpshooter:

That’s my “IF I won the lottery” bunker.

If I was still single, I would build one like that. One bag of cement, and one concrete block at a time. You can rent equipment for earth moving and breaking the rock. Just water proof the walls, back fill the area with loose dirt, form up the ceiling, then have a concrete truck come in and pour the roof as a “foundation slab” for a house. Trust me, you can do 90% of it by yourself if you’re not an idiot.