Add Rowing Ports to Ship [1006]

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

### E.1.8: Add Rowing Ports to Ship [1006]

      Usage: USE 1006
      Time to learn: 14 days.
      Time to use: 3 days.
      Requires: ten workers [11] (not consumed)
      Requires: two wood [77]

This skill adds one rowing port to a ship.

Each rowing port accommodates 4 oarsmen. Each unit of hull may have a maximum of 3 ports, and each newly-constructed hull comes with one rowing port.

Rowing a ship at normal speed requires one fully-staffed rowing port per unit hull. For example, rowing a 3 unit hull ship at normal speeds requires that the ship have 3 rowing ports and at least 14 sailors (2 to man the hull and 4 each for the 3 rowing ports).

Each additional fully-staffed rowing port per unit hull cuts a ship's rowing travel time by one day. For example, a 3 unit ship with 6 fully manned rowing ports would cut its travel time by one day, crossing a 6 day ocean province in just 5 days.

Conversely, if a ship has less than one full-staffed rowing port per unit hull, it will add one day of travel time. A ship with less than one oarsman per unit hull cannot move at all.