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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranger Rick" data-source="post: 2427429" data-attributes="member: 29705">Bront,  Those items you mentioned are fine on land, but a ship is totally different.   Ships have miles of cordage of every size.  If you want rope you grab some, it is very availble. Peasant outfit is 1 sp.  Do we need this type of accounting? Granted, but if 75% of the crew has one, than borrow one if you need it.-Waterskin (So you can take a drink without having to go down to the stores or galley) Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Ships of yore always rationed water even in the best of supply.  Unaturozided water use was a flogging offense.  Also top men would never take a wineskin because it could get caught.  Also casks of water are stored on the deck and one just ladles some out.  This was a privledge observed by the select officers and the Captain only. This is logical, but it would be the same as below.  I agree with you. Quite thinking like some body on land.  Backpacks/pitons are not good for shipboard life.  Spyglasses where kept in areas around the quarterdeck in racks.  If you needed one you grabbed one.  An officer having his own personal spyglass was uncommon.  If you are in the crow's nest than you probably did not have one anyways because searching with one was inefficient.  Only after you acquired a target would you use the spoyglass.Bront, your points are all land based.  Think of life aboard a ship.  Beds where hammocks that could be easily stored.  The crew had about 18 inches of bedspace width.  Everything needed to be put away in battle.  Having possesions was not something many sailors had.  Army solidiers had a lot more space to acquire possesions.Water is  rationed in when it is plentiful.</blockquote>

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