Loose ends..I am at port so no loose ends here...And I use to have a ship? Two but I sold one.. :(
My Character does not like land...so...
I wasn't a priate but....I could change to a green peace activist..same thing. :) I am not interested in a priate ship, I like where I was...more military style formation and organization and Perhaps a privateer with letters of Marque would be a compromise.
You left out SCHOONER! LoL Or barge, Caravel, Coracle, Dhow, Dromond, Dugout, Galley, Greatship, Ironclad, Junk, Keelboat, Launch, Longship, Raft, rowboat, Trireme, war canoe or in D&D tearms a Therurgeme, or Elf Winship? :)
Well since we are not on a river, we can elimeninate a lot of these choices...
Therurgeme is best for locomition!...
A Dromond or Ironclad if we are privateers...Frigate with copper hull....hmmm
If we are going to have combat like cannons or ballista etc... It depends on what we are going to do...speed vs strength...what kind of game we decide to play would determine the ship. Well we be paid to deliver cargo...so a mechant vessel part time. Need to know game to choose ship.
No she was not copper platted. But is that an option? if so...yes.Like the USS Constitution...
Clinker-built is made with boards whose edges lap one over another.
Contrasted with carvelbuilt; Which is having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel. The vikings did good with Clinker-built but we are more advanced.. :)
Main mast step sounds good. And I want an instep pad that is grooved to prevent slipping
I would not want to ship oars...I know how to sail...I have a small diesel right. :) Oh, we do not have diesels...oars huh....Yes then oars as well...so looks more and more like a Dromond! Of course if we cannot have 200 complement it takes, we will take an Iron Clad...if we have to stay below 100 complement then a
Elf Wingship!
A Hawser is a cable or rope used in mooring or towing a ship.
A Halyard is a rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, or yard.
A Vang is dervied from the Dutch not german; Dutch, a catch, from vangen, to catch.
Vang is it is a rope running from the peak of a gaff to a ship's rail or mast, used to steady the gaff.
Aye-Aye
It is a true sea actually an ocean You can sail around all of Faruern...so the climate would depend on our actual location on the sea/ocean (longitude/latitude) we are at the time....
Old Ironsides
AY TEAR her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout,
And burst the cannon's roar;
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more.
Her deck once red with heroes' blood,
Where knelt the vanquished foe,
When winds were hurrying o’er the flood,
And waves were white below,
No more shall feel the victor’s tread,
Or know the conquered knee;
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea!
Oh, better that her shattered hulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
What did I miss....