Anchors

[g1asswa1ker]

I never said you could make war from one I just said you can run one by yourself

[The Hunter]

Actually your all wrong a boat no matter what the size can be sailed by one person although not very well. Actually most nautical vessels of today don't take very many people to run. 5 people can handle an oil tanker in and out of port with little or no assitance from the pier...And old Nautical vessels didn't have very big crews. 15 or 20 people but I'm sure one could have done it just would have taken him longer and the risk of crashing would have been greater...

A boat maybe. I call a "big" boat a ship. And what kind of tanker are you talking about? A coaster? or a VLCC? A small coaster indeed takes 5 ppl to sail, a VLCC abt 30. The larger sailing ships actually took a lot of ppl to sail. WE're talking abt 1000's of Square metres of sail to handle. Dont forget you also have to have a continious watch, so that's 3 crews necessary to man the ship 24 hours a day. The smaller vessels also still needed a minimum of 30 ppl, ( depending on the era). I myself own a small sailing boat that officially requires 2 ppl to sail it, and thats only for short trips.

Take it from a sailor.

[Meh]

If the number of people required to make a ship go at full speed was raised aboue the single person it take right now that would be a start.

Even if it was just raised to two it would change some ways boats are being used now.

We shouldn't get to close to reality too fast. It would take 1% to 2% of the Cantr world population to properly run the largest Cantr boat.

[viktor]

i was thinking about suggesting anchors but didn't want to start a new topic if another existed and it did
neways.....
an anchor would be great to have on boats, it should be lockable(or can be in an anchor room) and raising/lowering it could be a type of project that takes an hour or 2, here's a good example of reasoning

a galleon massive ship should and probably will take forever to dock at a harbor and probably longet on land, however a rowboat i am guessing takes virtually no time at all, realisticly a person would then stop the galleon at sea then take the rowboat to shore and should in effect be faster than trying to dock a galleon, not sure what of those are currently hold true but just a scenario to illustrate.

probably take around 1000 grams of iron, at least for a galleon.

[Appleide]

I think at least 100000grams, but thats only for RL, For cantr I think it should be 5000 grams of iron

[Nixit]

Then, if you had an anchor, you probably would be respected and considered wealthy. 5000 grams of iron is a lot, but realistic.