ubject: Huh? Diesel engines don't last 800 hours before major repairs??
From: (JAXAshby)
Date: 08/07/2004 07:21 Pacific Standard Time
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People have used basic "DR" to get from point A to B safely for
centuries,

no they have not used it "safely". a full 25% of ALL commercial ships in the
final 50 years of sail powered shipping -- presumably the years of greatest
knowledge and skills in DR) sank before being taken out of service due to age
(about 20 years usage)


Soooo, what your saying is that 75% of sailing vessels had full careers. The
other 25% may have made only one voyage or thousands of voyages before sinking
or grounding prior to their 20 year demise.
Depending on how you manipulate the statistics, we can probably make this sound
bad OR good.

Shen