Sailing

What it governs

• Hull design, rigging and navigation; building a ship takes many skills together.Charter, Part V — Utility group
• Navigation is dead reckoning, sun and stars, with no map given; getting lost is real.
• Citizen-made charts are the most valuable paper, and a false one is a weapon.
• Winds prevail by latitude; the level is how close to the wind you sail, and how fast.
• The sea keeps what it takes: wrecks stay where they sank, open to salvage.
• Big hulls need crews; crewing teaches slowly, and mutiny is always possible.
• Gunpowder can be discovered, with no hint; if it is, stone stops being immune.

What happens today

A vessel is paddled, landed, re-boarded and paddled off, or taken apart; the map marks every one.

The order it goes in

The vessel ladder. At the third step, the sail has to be conceived.

1. Canoe, from Woodcutting.Charter, Part V — Utility group
2. Raft.
3. Skiff, the first with a sail.
4. Sloop.
5. Clipper.
6. Schooner or junk.
7. A galleon: a whole settlement's project, full crew, rare as a cathedral.