Add Sails to Ship [1005]

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

### E.1.6: Add Sails to Ship [1005]

      Usage: USE 1005
      Time to learn: 14 days.
      Time to use: 3 days.
      Requires: ten workers [11] (not consumed)
      Requires: one wood [77]

This skill adds one sail to a ship.

Each unit of hull may mount a maximum of 3 sails. Each sail requires one sailor to tend it, up to a maximum of 100 sailors. A sail uses up 250 units of a ship's capacity.

Sailing a ship at normal speed requires two fully-staffed sails per unit hull. For example, sailing a 3 unit hull ship at normal speeds requires that the ship have 6 sails and at least 8 sailors (2 to man the hull and 1 each for the 6 sails).

Each additional fully-staffed sail per unit hull cuts a ship's travel time by two days. For example, a 3 unit ship with 9 fully manned sails would cut its travel time by two days, crossing a 6 day ocean province in just 4 days.

Conversely, if a ship has less than two full-staffed sails per unit hull, it will add two days of travel time. A ship with less than one sail per two units hull cannot move at all.