Perfecting the INCH kit

These days I think taking to the sea is a better way ... even the ye Olde convicts of van Diemens Land circa 1834 were doing it ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_escape

Developing an INCH like a BOB will be very specific to your area and if you have a BOL to head towards.
As mentioned, it might not be a backpack setup, but a vehicle-based set-up to take the necessary food/water at a min.

I used to know a guy in the early 2000s who told me that he had already prepositioned food/water/supply caches all around the remote parts of the state where he spent most of his time with work. He said he had a week's worth of supplies for himself at each point and were spaced roughly 3 days' walk apart.
He had it all calculated out with natural water sources and whatnot for resupply.

Unfortunately with the climate in most of Aust, water is going to be the crux of surviving in a post-event world.
Sure, going Kevin Costner and waterworlding it on the open ocean is a nice idea for escape from hostile crowns on the land. But again you'll need to have an equipped catamaran/sailboat ready to go with things such as water desalination to process the seawater for use, food shouldn't be an issue with a few good rods and plenty of tackle and willingness not to get tired to eating fish for 3 meals a day lol. Some sort of endless way to cook the fish as well as you won't be able to pick up some sticks for a fire and gas won't last too long, so some sort of solar-powered stove/oven at a minimum.

I've pretty much watched every episode of this YT over the last 3 or 4 years.  A couple sailing around Oz in a tiny boat and living off the land / sea for much of it!  Well worth watching. 

Actually that's the first place my mind went to. Pirates aren't a huge problem around us though (for the larger part) but the second every cashed-up bogan with a tinny hits the waters, you might find that changes.

Water evac isn't an option for me. For one, I don't have a boat or the experience to support one. We live only a few kilometres from the coast now so if I were ever to be able to justify having a boat, now would be the time. But I just can't justify the cost of owning and maintaining a boat when our first instinct would be to load up the car and head in-land into the hills where you're less easily spotted. Anyone who thinks they're going to bug out to see in a tinny only needs to look at what happens to the majority of boat people to know that it's a terrible idea to try to go blue water in a tinny with a motor.

And if you can't go blue water then you're staying on the coastline in sheltered waters which leaves you WAY to close to everyone else that had the same idea. I don't see any benefit to sitting in a bay on a small boat. It'd be like shooting fish in a barrel. I don't know that you could INCH permanently on even a moderate sized boat without constantly using fuel to avoid being in the same place for too long. Put up a sail and you're providing a big white bedsheet target. And I wouldn't be worried about bad guys from above taking shots. I'd be worried that I'm providing a target for anyone else that's in a similar position but also desperate for supplies. Basically my thought is if you're the only blip on the horizon you're a lot bigger target than a blip on a scrubby hillside. So in my mind when I think of INCH rigs I tend to automatically go to vehicles and trailers because that's what seems most logical to me.

That being said with no actual experience on the drink I don't know that I'm making assumptions that aren't valid so what do I know? 🤣

Yes, got to agree with all of the above!  A boat for me would be an alternative bug out vehicle at best!  I'd be using it to get to somewhere really remote and then cam it up and concealing it in a mangrove etc.  I would not be living on it in a coastal area it would be a death trap!  

I'm confident that if underequipped convicts could make it to Chile across the south pacific/souther ocean in an unfinished boat in 1833 and again in 1834 ... its viable for us today.    Don't need to own the vessel ... just need to be able to access a vessel.  And there's plenty of ways to do that.  

How about Îles Kerguelen? No ones gonna find you there.

Mate ... in the unlikely event a huge occupying force arrives here to annex Oz into their empire ... I'm sailing for Chile.
I'm not worried about civilian riff-raff scratching through the detritus of a smashed economy causing problems for my group ... INCHing is a strategy for the Big League of Soviet/South swedish/Former Yugoslavia style organised occupation and extermination. The scenario I'm thinking of doesn't involve some global level breakdown ... it involves getting away from genocide oriented occupation force. This is a common theme in history. I know people who have had to do it. I don't know anyone who has had to contend with a global level Mad Max scenario.

The Mad Max scenario is not that tricky to navigate by comparision.

Your Solar now running a 5ft TV screen?  I'm gonna see if I can get a remastered HD version of the Postman!