Is it possible ?
In: Engineering
You sort of can, and they sort of do.
If you go all the way back to even the days of galleons on the high seas they would sometimes lash their sailors with lanyards to posts and masts.
The issue is just it’s awkward as fuck. If you think of the geometry of ships, they are long and narrow. For the lanyard to be useful it needs to prevent the sailor from falling, which implies it’s length is the shortest distance to the edge, which means that sailor is limited in forward/back movement.
So sailors would have to constantly reattach their lanyards as they go.
One thing pop culture we don’t see is that sailors aren’t just… standing around… watching the boat and shit. They RUN back and forth and climb rigging and go below deck and above deck like generally just rush around like a football player doing those spring to the lines exercises.
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