[Otter74]

I think many of y'all will find this interesting, on the around-the-world sailing race in 1968:

https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-maintenance-race/

‘Simplicity is a form of beauty.’ That principle governed everything for him. ‘Given a choice between something simple and something complicated’, he wrote, ‘choose what is simple without hesitation; sooner or later, what is complicated will almost always lead to problems’. Only simple things, he noted, can be reliably repaired with what you have on board.