Post #2350586
2026-02-25 07:07 UTC
You're working in harsh weather. You can't see shit. You have these client ships that are very slow and very large and very expensive. If you even *touch* one of the client ships, that's $3m, minimum, instantly.
An icebreaker would go right through an oil tanker, and come out the other side of it with a broken radar antenna, covered in oil.
And the icebreaker runs in front of the client breaking ice so it can get where it's going.
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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 2026-02-25 07:10
There are three main modern tools you can use, versus the old days: You have a radar system, you have a speed log, and you have GPS. All of those tools have serial outputs on them, good ol' RS-232. So here was the concept: take a PC and make a custom "ice breaking" UI, taking input from the three devices, and rendering it in such a fashion that the icebreaker skipper could get all the info in one place.