¶ Ship (2)
Index Entry
Ship:
"and longest range, time and geography wise, pattern planning. Why? Simply because a ship had to be designed to meet far more than the pattern indicated by the physical experience within the local environment of harbored confines; indeed, the more resources to be fetched for the complementation of the locally-occurring resources for integration into comprehensive capital goods wealth and higher productivity, the more extremes of climate and weather hazards, the more days and miles of possible hazards needed to be anticipated with approximate safety factors. Ships had to be designed for the generalized case of all oceans and all tasks. To accomplish all-ocean, all-task efficacy, men learned through bitter, mortal, dramatic experience that they must invest all the best of their commonwealth resources of time and physical goods inventory and cumulative science and craft know-how into the building and management of their long-range,wealth-integrating ships.
“No arts nor knowledge of design and pattern failed to place in the undertaking. Because of the myriad conflicts of ambition of competitively lesser plan leaders and their easy expediency and shortsighted gain in recourse to piracy,”
