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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eye Tyrant" data-source="post: 2775125" data-attributes="member: 406"><p>Having spent 9 years in the Navy (granted I was on a modern ship and not a historic sailing vessel) I remember being able to see out on deck pretty well on nights that the moon was full or unobstructed by cloud cover (burning oil rigs helped in the Gulf, but I doubt that would be typical in a D&D game). We used mag-lites with red lenses to see when it was really dark as stated above. As for speed, I remember we did usually slow down a bit at night, but if need be we would cruise at a nice clip. The number of look-outs remained the same at night though. "Stopping" in the  middle of the ocean is nigh on impossible. You instead would be DIW or Dead in the Water. Anchoring out in the ocean/sea is extremely dangerous even with modern technology. If you mis-calculate and drop anchor in some underwater gorge you can easily lose the hook, parting the anchor chain and likely end some poor fools life early. My buddy was on-board the USS Sacremento when this happened, suffice to say it wasn't pretty and the captain was relieved as soon as the replacement could be flown out. Anchors Aweigh and all that  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>