Your traditional Swiss Army knife has things like knife blades, corkscrew, can opener, screwdriver, wire stripper, saws and toothpicks. As with many things the Swiss Army knife continues to change.

Now there is a Swiss Army knife that includes a USB storage device that can hold up to 128 MB of data. This includes things like text files, images, video, audio and more. Plug it into any USB enabled computer and you can then view and manipulate data.

I’m not sure this is the most useful item a sailor could have but it is the indicator of a trend. Although it might be a way to download weather data from a land based computer and then load the data on to the onboard laptop prior to a race. Or it could be used to keep contact information and vital boat information such as engine manuals etc. Then when cruising you would have a portable device you could use for trouble shooting, repairs etc.

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