bro what I’m saying is you can’t reverse a ship like you can reverse a car
only thing I feel like is if you span the whole mast around
Way to reverse ships ( ? )
https://forum.arcaneodyssey.dev/uploads/default/optimized/3X/0/8/08d97c1d418bd079b98290f172b9a16919f68fb4_2_1024x894.jpeg
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it may need an engine to reverse actually,
think about this, how do you think the boats at the ingame docks REVERSED into that position?
they had people pull it
bro
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
how do YOU think it happened
stupid engine theory from the 1800s
Kedging refers to a process where an anchor is used to drag a ship to a specific location. The heavy anchor is carefully loaded into a boat, which is rowed into position in the direction the ship wishes to go. The anchor is dropped at that position. The crew on board the ship, pulls against the anchor, using the winch, moving the ship towards the anchor. The anchor can then be raised, and the operation repeated. The success of this depends upon the conditions and the skill of the crew. Although, of course, it would be most straightforward in calm weather, it was use at times to pull a ship off of rocks, or a reef, or to prevent it from getting pushed further into the shore during a storm. Kedging in that kind of weather was quite a heroic act.
In addition to the wind, many ports were on estuaries or rivers. The state of flow of the river and the tides was important. If the wind was adverse, but the current was favorable, the ship could be guided into the proper current and sales kept furled, so that the wind had minimal influence, and the current would move the ship in the proper direction. Ports on tidal estuaries or tidally-influenced rivers, would sometimes see ships spend half a day drifting in the proper direction, and then anchoring or tying two trees ashore when the current reversed as the tide changed.
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man is right, partly atleast idk entirely still…
The answer is always it depends, but I’ll give you a few examples of how the wind would’ve affected the vessels’ ability to enter, or leave port.
First, there’s always the chance that adverse weather could, in fact, prevent sailing ships from entering or leaving a port at all. There are many times in history, when voyages or invasions were postponed due to the wind simply blowing in the wrong direction. Julius Caesar was delayed for weeks crossing over to Britain for example.
If the difficulty is very local, and the vessels can reach the harbor or, leaving the harbor, expect they can make way to their destination, then sailing ships could use several methods for maneuvering to and from the pier.
Smaller craft could be rowed or sculled.
Some larger ships had provisions for sweeps (long oars) which would be used in the absence of wind, for short distances.
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100% you used chatgpt and/or google bro
obviously this is googled tho
yeah no shot you knew that before
in that essay that you wrote in 1 minute you’re using words like craft and vessel which you weren’t using b4
i think they might just really like boats
I don’t think so
i do, boats are a nice thing to like
Why wouldnt you Google it? I did because my understanding in physics is pretty basic as hell and people back then who sailed square rig had different solutions to get their ship to go backwards
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I mean because he transitioned it in a way that made it seem like he tried to act like it wasn’t googled
here’s source for anyone actually interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/yzpp5x/how_did_ships_dock_or_reverse_in_the_age_of_sail/
is that picture from the 1800’s?
The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839.
could you remove your rating also it’s kind of ruining the posts rating, there were many ways people reversed ships back then, after some research the brig may have been too big a boat for the wind to just send it back like that, i thought maybe with enough strong wind from magic it would go back though, maybe it would need waves to push it back though with no sails