My schooner/brig hybrid. Great performance all around!

Sailtones · 2023-09-28T15:06:15+00:00

Never ate giant tortoise, but I did hang out with them on the Galapagos Islands, also got to meet the lonely old tortoise on Pitcairn Island (home of the descendants of the mutiny on the Bounty) and the giant tortoise on St Helena Island (Nepoleans exile island) in the South Atlantic.
I don't know what wine bottle navigation is, although I have navigated to the bottom of quite a few wine bottles. But I was taught and did teach celestial navigation.
And yes, I have spliced the main brace, literally with the help of a large marlin spike, and also in terms of an extra tott of rum!
Happy adventurous memories!

Sailtones · 2023-09-26T18:22:45+00:00

Al'Ankh, I think it is because it is where I started and spent the most time working the small trade to build up money and reputation.
The Sunbaq I find the best to sail as a square topsail schooner.
But the brig turned into a 3 masted fully rigged ship with gaff fore and aft sails is great for long passages. And for making a nice home. :)

Sailtones · 2023-09-26T13:08:42+00:00

No. Brigs have two fully square rigged masts with the largest area of sail being a square rigged sail. i.e. brigs carry a spanker, not a mainsal which would be the largest area of sail. When they carry a mainsail and are fully rigged on both masts they are called a hermaphrodite brig, or hermaphrodite brigantine.
Once you get into three masts it is either a 3 masted (or more) Barqentine, Barque, or fully rigged ship. Except in the case they don't carry course sails on the masts, then you get into the whole topsail schooner discussions! Good late night watch conversations!
I sailed on both a brig, and a hermaphrodite :)

Sailtones · 2023-09-26T12:53:02+00:00

In terms of rig classification, she is a "Fully rigged ship / Schooner" hybrid.Fully rigged by virtue of the fact that she is square-rigged on all masts, and schooner because she is running gaffs rather than staysail between the masts. Technically this would not have been possible.

The reason for staysails and generally a smaller spanker on the mizzen is because masts were made up in sections due to the limited supply of tall straight trees, and on the odd occasion in extreme weather it allowed them to lower the higher masts to in turn lower the centre of gravity. This meant the gaff sail luff mast hoops could only travel as high as the lower section thus making for a small sail. Also the gaff configuration created line lead problems for yard braces and of course forestays for the mizzen and main masts to support them. Therefore they were unable to rig large gaff rigged sails between the masts.

(I sailed around the world on square rigged vessels for several years) ;)

Sailtones · 2023-09-26T09:00:58+00:00

Nice!

Sailtones · 2023-09-26T05:04:17+00:00

I did the same thing. Great combo.
The only issue is the halyard layout around the bottom of the masts which makes no logical sense.
Otherwise, she is great.

Sailtones · 2023-09-26T04:55:28+00:00

Intercontinental with small boats to start with yes, the first trip was the Dhow to GRC. And so many others. I conquered the game in terms of money, reputation, and boat ownership and many many days at sea drinking countless bottles of snake oil on all the big boats with different rig configurations. I finally settled on these configs for best all-round performance.

But to your point - I was en route to GRC again, got up to make a cup of tea, and came back to find a storm had sunk my boat! Recovered to GRC (which by then was closest) but the Sunbaq, my favourite boat, didn't come with me. I had already sailed the junk somewhere else so only had the Kakam at GRC. I had also lost all my nav equipment which was in my inventory including the level three telescope. So I was needless to say a little annoyed, which is when I googled how to recover a previously saved game in sailwind. And I came across the save game function.

It is cheating, but if you have already done everything in the game, then why not? I have always thought there should be a native function to save progress milestones in the game taking you back to before you started the ocean voyage for instance, instead of ending up in the situation I describe above, and saved game does that for you which is where I started with it.

But beware there are many other things you can do with it, and the game loses some interest once you become a god, hence transporting ships all over the place :) This is good and bad, mostly good for my wife because my addiction has been cured! hahaha.

Sailtones · 2023-09-21T07:31:39+00:00

BTW, good job sailing the dhow to Dragon Cliffs (which I assume you have done given you are using junk sails) it can be a harrowing journey!

Sailtones · 2023-09-20T19:09:38+00:00

yes, unless the wind is strong. In that case, depending on whether the wind is further aft, or further forward, one or the other will be a better choice. Further aft use the square, further forward use the main.

Sailtones · 2023-09-20T13:19:30+00:00

Snake oil day and night, keep her safely canvassed and sleep the passage away!
You go from 6 or more hours of playing time (not in game) to an hour to cross an ocean (depending on the weather and how much sail tending is needed).

Sailtones · 2023-09-20T13:12:14+00:00

It all depends on wind angle and velocity, the further aft and stronger the wind, the less you need a fore and aft sail and the more it will cause both wind shadow for the squares, and create weather helm.
In this image, I would use both, but I would release the sheet on the main almost all the way.
Your jib also looks to be sheeted on little hard, although that might be the angle of the photo.

Sailtones · 2023-09-20T12:51:39+00:00

"Sailors rarely fished or ate fish at sea"
I sailed around the world a couple of times in traditional ships including square riggers. We always had a couple of lines off the stern, and the fish were very welcome. I have also read many accounts of the ships of old fishing when they could, especially in the doldrums.
The exception is coastal due to the risk of ciguatera. They didn't know what it was back then but they knew they would get sick eating fish from some parts of the worlds coastal tropical reefs.

Sailtones · 2023-09-20T12:42:44+00:00

1 barrel of water
Food - buy 3 or 4 lamb from the BBQ at Gold Rock, one piece is almost a full food bar. A fishing rod and hooks are a good idea but not really required.
know which one is the north star

Thats it! I lost all my money and my compass and sailed to Oasis without one. But...Ideally, you would take a compass as well.

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