Sometimes it’s hard to know if we’re inventing or re-inventing the wheel. Or, before we try what we’ve built, whether we’re even holding a wheel in our hands…
Sometimes it’s hard to know if we’re inventing or re-inventing the wheel. Or, before we try what we’ve built, whether we’re even holding a wheel in our hands.
In this episode we take a tour of MUSTELID’s outfit. Much of this has never been tried, to our knowledge. Some has, at least in principle, but we’ve “dumbed it down.” Some is tried-and-true but not in our context or in conjunction with other items. But it must work, or be culled. There’s no space for laggards!
We’re aiming for a handful of qualities in construction, stowage, and use:
Simplicity: It must be clever, but not too clever. Flexibility: The more roles it can fill, the merrier. Modularity: Interchangeable, reconfigurable, and redundant. Synergy: Parts that work together.
And the further challenge of sea-trials lie yet ahead.
Phil Bolger once commented that he had abandoned a design due to the sheer number of untried features it involved. We’re not that wise.
Learn More about Episode 4: https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/mustelid-episode-4/
Follow along with the adventure: https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article-categories/mustelid/
MUSTELID – Episode 4 : Outfitting MUSTELID
Sometimes it’s hard to know if we’re inventing or re-inventing the wheel. Or, before we try what we’ve built, whether we’re even holding a wheel in our hands…
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Sometimes it’s hard to know if we’re inventing or re-inventing the wheel. Or, before we try what we’ve built, whether we’re even holding a wheel in our hands.
In this episode we take a tour of MUSTELID’s outfit. Much of this has never been tried, to our knowledge. Some has, at least in principle, but we’ve “dumbed it down.” Some is tried-and-true but not in our context or in conjunction with other items. But it must work, or be culled. There’s no space for laggards!
We’re aiming for a handful of qualities in construction, stowage, and use:
Simplicity: It must be clever, but not too clever.
Flexibility: The more roles it can fill, the merrier.
Modularity: Interchangeable, reconfigurable, and redundant.
Synergy: Parts that work together.
And the further challenge of sea-trials lie yet ahead.
Phil Bolger once commented that he had abandoned a design due to the sheer number of untried features it involved. We’re not that wise.
Learn More about Episode 4: https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/mustelid-episode-4/
Follow along with the adventure: https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article-categories/mustelid/
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