And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Half-way up the mast of the swedish east indianman Götheborg , by Richard Sibley
Miles of cable and rope. Back in the days of manilla cordage, they changed most every inch every six months or so. A voyage of, say two years would start out with enough spare rope to make two complete changes. They'd hope to pick up additional spares as some far port. Captains, or more typically the owners, who decided to prolong in service found they might very well lose their ship and its cargo. Crew were expendable. Serving the rope lessened chaff but not rot. Now dyneema is favored. Yet even dyneema is being replaced by the next best thing. This creates quite the conundrum; a resurgence of historical vessels built from historical plans with mostly historical tools and methods, yet held together with high tech materials.
Miles of cable and rope.
ReplyDeleteBack in the days of manilla cordage, they changed most every inch every six months or so.
A voyage of, say two years would start out with enough spare rope to make two complete changes. They'd hope to pick up additional spares as some far port.
Captains, or more typically the owners, who decided to prolong in service found they might very well lose their ship and its cargo. Crew were expendable.
Serving the rope lessened chaff but not rot.
Now dyneema is favored. Yet even dyneema is being replaced by the next best thing. This creates quite the conundrum; a resurgence of historical vessels built from historical plans with mostly historical tools and methods, yet held together with high tech materials.
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