When asked for their personal choice for a bug-out vehicle, many arm-chair warriors will select an armoured vehicle. While those armoured vehicles are awesome to look at, and may make great exploration vehicles, they make terrible bug-out vehicles. And you can not live in them any longer than a few days.
PROS:
- They can go off-road and travel anywhere within your countries borders.
- If you get to a closed border, you can ATTEMPT to crash through.
- They can carry a heavy load of supplies, food and water.
CONS:
- They require vast amounts of fuel. No fuel = no moving.
- They are highly visible and highly suspect.
- You can only travel in your own country. Especially in a SHTF scenario, it's not (legally) going across the border.
- If you ever did crash a border or government roadblock, you're easy to find.
- They can not replenish your water supply.
- You can't provide food/hunt from them (too noisy).
- There is no way to live in them (maybe they sleep 2 people, doubt there's a bathroom).
Sailboats
- travel without fuel for unlimited range. Literally GLOBAL range!
- can provide you with electricity from solar, wind, and hydro generators.
- fresh water from a desalinator and/or rain catcher.
- comfortable beds in private cabins (I have 4 king beds in private cabins, plus 8 bunks in two cabins).
- full washrooms with hot showers (I have 4).
- you can fish while sailing (or while anchored).
- can travel to any country without crossing countries in between.
- it's possible to arrive in a country without checking in at the border (it is illegal, and I advise against it, but possible).
- nondescript. For the most part, one looks just like any other one.
- the only way to attack one is from another boat. Nobody is sneaking up on you during the night.