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The fundamentals have obviously changed. At no point in any serious engagement will it ever be important to have experience with sailing. This ship should have
by nickysielicki 1y ago
The fundamentals have obviously changed. At no point in any serious engagement will it ever be important to have experience with sailing. This ship should have been dry docked and turned into a museum years ago. Two people are dead.
- ceejayoz 1y agoThe fundamentals include things like teamwork and following orders. You can learn those on a sailing ship just fine.
- bombcar 1y agoYou learn them better. A big ship can run just fine with a few people; heck, it's probably possible to run with just one if we admit it. Big sailing ships don't work like that, you can't furl a sail without intense physical cooperation and teamwork.
- shakow 1y agoThat sail-trained sailors make better sailors than engine-trained sailors is similar to how glider-trained pilots make better pilots after transition than engine-trained pilots. They typically acquired a better understanding of the medium they're evolving in, giving them a deeper understanding of the dynamic situation of their craft.
- nottorp 1y agoSame for being aware of the lower abstraction layers down to machine code when you're programming in a high level language.
- achierius 1y agoThis incident could have happened regardless of the type of ship. Unless you have some reason to believe otherwise, I'd suggest against saying so.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoThere’s a lot more to seamanship and crewmanship than propulsion methods. Cuauhtemoc is a training ship designed to teach that, not primarily how to work sails. Also it was built in 1982 so I fail to see how it should be a museum ship since it’s not that old or historic.
- kbelder 1y agoYou can go your whole programming career without using assembly, but it unquestionably makes you a better programmer.
- nickysielicki 1y agoSure -- what the fuck does that have to do with sailing, though?