This could use your support, some tiny rays of hope, and here's something you might find interesting...
Over at the Archdruid Report, today's post is entitled "The Steampunk Future" (a long but worthwhile read) where he mentions calling a slide rule a steampunk calculator and it got me thinking...
We'd all be better off with a bit more steampunk tech in our sailing lives.
Now, I really like my chartplotter, depth sounder/electronic log, and AIS but none of those items are what you'd call user repairable. Having something on the boat I can't fix makes me nervous without some sort of less techie user repairable backup system ready to take over when the need arises.
Steampunk tech if you will...
Fact of the matter is a lot of old serviceable sailing gear is already quite steampunky if you think about it... Logs with brass gears, brass sextants, and chronometers figure quite strongly in the makeup of out nautical sinews. Face it, if you've read your Jules Verne growing up you're already right next to the corner of Steam and Punk so you might as well embrace it.
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| Nemo had the right idea |
So it goes...
