[COR - FB] HMS Isandlwana

[Tomsche]

My second ship I`ve build for BoBS, the HMS Isandlwana is a `class 0 ship`.

These small vessels can be registred for a measly 15 doubloons (which I`ll be doing someday soonish), and as one of the first two builds of a month they already pay back 10 DBs.

Based on the actual `Norfolk Wherry` ships, who saw service in official capacity as far back as the rennaissance right until the last one was retired from commercial shipping in... 1967, this also the only type of sailing ship I actually `been` on.

Wherry`s are used to ferry goods in the calmer coastal waters and down inland waterways, and often saw service with larger sailing ships to unload them where ports couldn`t handle their size or the cargo needed to be divided over several waterside villages.

The HMS Isandlwana, "captained" by Miss Forsythe-Smith, serves the (for the moment) small port of (to be founded soon) Quinnsville, as the new settlement isn`t big enough (yet) to handle large trade vessels or multiple cargo vessels at once. Nobody knows where she came up with the name, but gossip tells that she is the widow of a deceased officer of the army, lost in some far away country in a battle woth natives. She probably chose the excentric sail design for that reason as well, but remains very closed on the subject when inquired.

[TitusV]

Good use of the sail, this is exactly what I'd expect of a class 0, Great job!

[Puvel]

Nice little boat! Looks likes it can cary enough goods to supply a starting colony indeed, well done

[Captain Dee]

She's a Class 0 all right. Small, sleek and trim. The sail fits pretty well (and looks to be in perfect condition...) But she does look pretty low - I hope they don't encounter any significant waves. I'd like to see a comparo shot of all your ships - if they're built simultaneously. You've done three distinct sizes and it would be neat to see them together.

[Tomsche]

Those wherry`s where flat bottoms, and if they encountered real waves, they where doomed anyways. Bit of prehistoric (by manner of speaking) loading cranes from today`s world ports

[Bregir]

That is a very small and low boat, Tomsche. As I said elsewhere, it is nice to see the smaller vessels getting some love. I think it looks a little rough - maybe some tiles, or some sort of railing could fix that. I really do think that it should be a little higher in the hull. You could also try custom rigging to closer represent the rigging of your inspiration.

And I can't help but to think that this norfolk wherry would be better represented in a bigger scale, like the class 3 junk/barge which is also limited to one zone. But that will be an experiment for another time!

[Tomsche]

The original norfolk wherry`s where about 4 metres in length, really not bigger then the small sailing ships you now learn to sail with, or they do the races at the olympics with.

They where basically european (british) equivalents of the rafts used between amazon tribes and the likes, only in the industrial age they started to `lengthen` as the machine parts they tend to ferry from fabric A to fabric B became bigger and heavier