I love the dhow, it's the boat I've performed my best manoeuvre in; mooring on the back-side of the GRC dock after extracting the sanbuq, head-to-wind, without using lines and without touching the pier or grounding. She stopped dead exactly where I wanted her, and backed in on the breeze without much need for rudder commands. She just behaves so well. When I was on my way to buy the sanbuq I was coming in from Al'Ankh Academy, with a wind at my back so stiff you'd think there was a storm, doing 11 knots (stock rig) all the way through the sandbars. It made me question why I was even retiring her...then I remembered trying to carry copper.
@Icu2chill
Ай бұрын
That would make it for a stylish entrance alright!! 😎 what sail config do you carry? I did something similar earlier this week trying to capture approach to Neverdin from front 3rd person view… not on purpose and did it the dock. Still felt great tho… I’ll have to give that GRC docking a try!
@phillycheesetake
Ай бұрын
@@Icu2chill It was just the stock sails, I wanted to buy the sanbuq as soon as possible so I spent no money on the dhow. The sanbuq is also still stock, I want to try a sloop but I read in the discord there's a bug which causes the sloop sanbuq to wiggle, so if an update fixes that I will try a gaff sloop.
@jamespfp
Ай бұрын
2:25 -- RE: The Clock; I want to voice a note of cautious optimism about perhaps worrying more about a telescope, even the cheapest, lowest power one, because the time of day can be determined by the Sun's position in the sky (that takes some experience with a Clock, so stand around in the Market checking the time first....) during the day, and the relative position of the 2 stars that are nearest to the North star will accurately show the time of night (when they're "level" horizontally, it's 10 PM, when they're "upright" vertically, it's 2 AM). So that means a Telescope + a Quadrant and a cheap Sun Compass would be an economical kit for the first couple of rounds in Al Ankh's region. Oasis needs the Telescope more than the Clock to find.
@Icu2chill
Ай бұрын
Agreed! Sun compass, quadrant and spy glass are part of lower star setups (part I). For the clock, I was more thinking of how you become much more conscious of it once you have one. Before your rhythm may only be sunrise, noon, mid afternoon, sunset. With it you can break down further. I also find it useful especially at night when you wake up, it’s pitch dark, and you don’t know if it’s 11pm or 3.30am!
@Oluabayo
Ай бұрын
I tried the tall lateen sail like you did but I didn't like the keel angle and was worried about storms with it. If you think it's a lot faster than the normal sail then I might try again?
@Icu2chill
Ай бұрын
Definitely worth trying it again. It feels very rewarding and you do get quite faster. Here are a couple of things I learned thanks to others’ comments and by experimenting: - take on some weight that you can easily shift from port to starboard to counter act the the wind. - unlike with smaller sails, even a quarter rotation of the sail’s winch will make the difference between catching too much wind and too little - you need to play much more with the level of sail’s deployment in high wind if you can’t counter the wind by shifting weight. In episode 2 I mentioned the struggle with the fin sail. That was mainly due to not shifting weight on my boat I think!
@t.a.ackerman4098
Ай бұрын
Do you know how much the stove weighs?
@Icu2chill
Ай бұрын
Nope, other than it does not seem to affect a small boat’s balance much if at all when there are other equipment onboard. I have always been struggling to estimate weight for “equipment” such as bookcase, stove, hook case, fire wood case, etc but I am working on finding a way to get a better estimate
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