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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Mon Jun 21 2004 - 01:03:03 EDT
The whole concept of having equipment on board that can be repaired is
interesting, but misguided IMHO.
Your view point is influenced by of your age, IMHO.
Those who grew up with computer technology will have a different
perspective than those who came before them.
If you ONLY use equipment that you as an individual can service and
repair, then in this day of high reliability, finite use, throw away, non
repairable products, you will probably not have any of the following:
1) TV. Today, these are throwaway non repairable items.
2) Home entertainment electronics such as stereo, AM/FM radio. (Same as
TV)
3) Automobile. Nobody can work on a modern automobile without the
necessary test equipment.
4) Handheld calculator.
5) Cell Phone.
6) Personal computer.
The list goes on but you get the idea.
Yes, you can repair a mechanical device such as a sextant, if you can
find suitable shore side machine shop services, but at what cost?
A basic GPS costs less than $100. If it dies, throw it in the trash and
pick up the next one. (Save the batteries)
Doubt you will get a machine shop to make sextant renewal parts of under
$100.
You can draw a new scale for my slide rule, but why bother when a new
electronic calculator is less than $10.
Before you get the wrong idea, I'm not a big fan of electronic toys on a
boat.
Being in the industrial electronics business, I recognize that all
electronics are sooner or later going to fail, probably sooner.
Modern electronics do not replace prudent seamanship; however, trying to
implement obsolete equipment rather than utilize modern technology is
also to put it politely, not swift.
Lew
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