I’d expect shanties might get a new lease on life then. Aside from the brief resurgence in popularity with youth. They started aboard sailing ships after all
Saves fuel, but you have to make the same crossing so many hundreds of times to transfer the same amount of cargo. Of course, the canal transit and port fees are much lower.
This could inadvertently help with the "buy local" cause. If boats can't carry as much and shipping internationally takes longer, that's more incentive to bring jobs back home and source your products within your own borders.
This is quite the coincidence...
https://greatawakening.win/p/15K6JWOzG3/when-the-boats-have-no-sails/
Did they take my advice?
I’d expect shanties might get a new lease on life then. Aside from the brief resurgence in popularity with youth. They started aboard sailing ships after all
Saves fuel, but you have to make the same crossing so many hundreds of times to transfer the same amount of cargo. Of course, the canal transit and port fees are much lower.
Imagine checking your package tracking and finding out your shipment is delayed due to the doldrums or pirate attack. Nice.
Make more stuff here and then you don't have to worry about shipping it half way around the world.
Ah, block and tackle, monkeys fists, shipwrights thumbs and hammers. Big hammers.
This could inadvertently help with the "buy local" cause. If boats can't carry as much and shipping internationally takes longer, that's more incentive to bring jobs back home and source your products within your own borders.
So, we're going backwards.
Think of it as battery powered boats charged by windmills,
but without the batteries or windmills.
Cool. Return to aesthetics and shipwrights.
Fixed a typo
esthetics or aesthetics?
Rum might work for an anesthetics.
Don't you think sailing ships are more attractive than container ships?
Yes. We have much better/faster sail powered ships now.
Also much better weather information to optimize the wind.
I thought "anesthetic" was a pain killer?
It was a typo courtesy of my spell checker.
I still like the rum idea.
Even better --- make it at home.
Lol, make "boat in a basement" jokes great again.
I mean --- stop offshoring manufacturing.
Build products where they are going to be used -- it's more environmental
than shipping them across country from a port.