the schooner

[Thonys]

should we have schooners in the game 

look how nice

 

what do you think?

[mikawa]

Especially Prince is a very nice ship, but not very fast as we have seen in testbed.

[Thonys]

55 minutes ago, mikawa said:

Especially Prince is a very nice ship, but not very fast as we have seen in testbed.

should be a fast ship i suppose

 

[mikawa]

Should, but fir-fir did only about 12kn so far as I've seen ....

[DeRuyter]

7 hours ago, Thonys said:

should we have schooners in the game 

look how nice

 

what do you think?

We have Topsail schooners in the game, Lynx, Privateer and Pickle. Prince was rigged as a schooner but also as a hermaphrodite brig (brigantine) which is what we have in game.

The schooners above are later examples after they did away with the square sails. A very popular rig used on the US coast and Canada for fishing and cargo hauling. Some of them also dropped the bowsprit and were called "knockabout schooners".  We have some replicas and restored original schooners sailing on the US east coast, Lynx being one of them.

[Hodo]

2 hours ago, DeRuyter said:

We have Topsail schooners in the game, Lynx, Privateer and Pickle. Prince was rigged as a schooner but also as a hermaphrodite brig (brigantine) which is what we have in game.

The schooners above are later examples after they did away with the square sails. A very popular rig used on the US coast and Canada for fishing and cargo hauling. Some of them also dropped the bowsprit and were called "knockabout schooners".  We have some replicas and restored original schooners sailing on the US east coast, Lynx being one of them.

The Pickle is a Hermaphrodite schooner also.  It has a square sail and fore-aft rigging, like a smaller Prince.  

The Privateer and Lynx are "Schooners".

[Sir Texas Sir]

There is an actual schooner in the files. Wonder if it was a model ship or just something they tested with?

[DeRuyter]

On 8/31/2017 at 3:35 PM, Hodo said:

The Pickle is a Hermaphrodite schooner also.  It has a square sail and fore-aft rigging, like a smaller Prince.  

The Privateer and Lynx are "Schooners".

I hadn't actually thought of Pickle as anything but a topsail schooner, maybe because all the sources list her as schooner rigged as is the replica. Actually both Pickle and Prince have a fore and aft rigged foresail on on the foremast which technically makes them both schooners, but Prince has a square topsail on the mainmast as well. The Pickle is modelled in game with a forecourse which is not normally carried on a topsail schooner and differentiates her from Lnyx and the Privateer, but I don't think that would turn the rig into a hermaphrodite brig. If that were the case neither Pickle or Prince should have the foresail (fore and aft rigged).