{"id":2027,"date":"2019-03-08T16:03:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2020-01-19T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T20:52:30","slug":"ships-are-to-little-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/ships-are-to-little-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Ships are to little purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cShips are to little purpose without skillful<\/g> Sea Men.\u201d<\/p>

Richard Hakluyt, 1589.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As a piloting quote, these words ring true across five centuries. And as a quick social media meme<\/g> they seem true for many activities we humans want to feel important about. And that’s good. But there’s a lot more here than just a two-second meme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Richard Hakluyt\u00a0(1553\u00a0\u2013 1616) was an English writer known for promoting the\u00a0English colonization of North America. He wrote (with Edmund Goldsmid) the 16 volume opus The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation<\/a><\/em> (online Gutenberg). It was in here he wrote about the high cost of gross ignorance in marine accidents, the value of apprenticeships for sailors, the need for formal education, and grey hairs. The language is hard for us, but I think it’s worthwhile to plow through and consider how much of this is still true after 500 years of progress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May we all learn to be skillful sea men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cShips are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.\u201d Richard Hakluyt, 1589. As a piloting quote, these words ring true across five centuries. And as a quick social media meme they seem true for many activities we humans want to feel important about. And that’s good. But there’s a lot more here than just a two-second meme. Richard Hakluyt\u00a0(1553\u00a0\u2013 1616) was an English writer known for promoting the\u00a0English colonization of North America. He wrote (with Edmund Goldsmid) the 16 volume opus The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (online Gutenberg). It was in here he wrote … Continue reading Ships are to little purpose<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,37],"tags":[230,77,59],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-article","tag-education","tag-seamanship","tag-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}