Alternative commercial shipping for T2K

[Matt W]

Home page is here:
http://www.square-sail.com/


I like this ship in particular
http://www.square-sail.com/square_ri...s/phoenix.html

There's even a link to the local technical college
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=304924

[Targan]

Here in Australia we have a sail training ship called the Leeuwin II which regularly visits my local port of Fremantle.

http://www.sailleeuwin.com/site/arti...about_main.htm

She is a three masted barquentine and I see no reason why she would not have survived the Twilight War. Interestingly you will see in the ship's specifications at that site I linked to that the ship is not a refurbished historic ship, it is a modern vessel built by Tenix Defence and has a steel hull and a teak deck.

[Mohoender]

Originally Posted by Targan

Here in Australia we have a sail training ship called the Leeuwin II which regularly visits my local port of Fremantle.

http://www.sailleeuwin.com/site/arti...about_main.htm

She is a three masted barquentine and I see no reason why she would not have survived the Twilight War. Interestingly you will see in the ship's specifications at that site I linked to that the ship is not a refurbished historic ship, it is a modern vessel built by Tenix Defence and has a steel hull and a teak deck.

Thats why I chose not to list it. Except if I'm mistaken it was commissioned in 1989. Therefore, it could not be available to Australia if you follow v1.0 but it would be there if you follow v2.0.

I was sure you would not miss it Targ.

[weswood]

Here's one I plan on using if I ever get a chance:

http://www.tallshiprose.org/

There's such a myrad choice of vessel types I couldn't come up with a definative list. You can have a hull with the sails set one way and it's called this, change the sail plan and it's called that.

I've got about three different references I'm trying to convert into a simple rules system. I've got a very comprehensive article in an old Dragon Magazine, and downloaded "Corsair" for the d20 system, and "Ships and Sea Battles" for a system called 7th sea. But everything is giving me different stats, ie, the crew for a frigate is 100 in Corsair, 150 in Ships and Sea Battles, 120 from the Dragon article, and 450 for the Constitution in "Gateway to the Spanish Main.

Plus Targan was kind enough to send me the Challenge article, which i promptly lost when I got a new computer. I swear I had saved it to disk. And I might have....

[TiggerCCW UK]

We had the Tall Ships here in Belfast last month and I got a load of pics of them, although the weather was abysmal. I'll try and get a few up on here, there were a few mentioned in the thread that I saw when they were here. I'll try and get them up soon, although as I'm moving house again at the end of the month it might take a while....