Necessity is the mother of invention, and as I understand it from their writing, life on the sea is a constant maintenance battle against when the "ground" underneath your feet is trying to pull you in at every step, from corroding everything holding you together to the isolation driving extensive planning and maintenance for self sufficiency projects.

hundredrabbits did that in reverse order, which is certainly rarer, but might also inform the rest of us about how to reverse that order ourselves.