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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imagicka" data-source="post: 3225149" data-attributes="member: 4621">Greetings...Well, it isn't the length of your ship that is important... it's the depth, and the width.  How deep in this channel?  How wide is the ship?  How treacherous is the water?  Does the wind/waves push the ship into the rocks?Navigation through such places is tricky, but usually done by breaking out the row-boats and towing the ship, or having the crew pull the ship through any straight with ropes and such.  Or of course completely avoiding the location in the first place.Being a rocky bay, the whole point is that it's not so treacherous.  That the water and weather is a little calmer than on the open water, otherwise there is no point in being there.Being a rocky area, you would have navigators/pilots that are familiar with the region, and would help harbour ships in.  You drop anchor outside the bay, and the pilot comes aboard the ship to pilot it in.  Being in a situation like that, the questions I'd be asking are: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">How treacherous is the weather/wind?  How much is it pushing us off-course?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What can we do to magically reduce/control the wind/waves?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What can we do to either raise the water, or remove the rocks completely? </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Why do we even need to go in the bay, and expose the ship to danger?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Why can't we just break out row-boats and get ashore that way?</li> </ul>What made rocky bays so appealing to pirates is that they could drop anchor in a bay, and wait out storms, where as other ships that had to enter the bay were entering unknown territory, where they didn't know where the rocks and shoals were.</blockquote>

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