Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)
Usage: USE 1005 Time to learn: 14 days. Time to use: 3 days. Requires: ten workers [11] (not consumed) Requires: one wood [77]
This skill adds one sail to a ship.
Each unit of hull may mount a maximum of 3 sails. Each sail requires one sailor to tend it, up to a maximum of 100 sailors. A sail uses up 250 units of a ship's capacity.
Sailing a ship at normal speed requires two fully-staffed sails per unit hull. For example, sailing a 3 unit hull ship at normal speeds requires that the ship have 6 sails and at least 8 sailors (2 to man the hull and 1 each for the 6 sails).
Each additional fully-staffed sail per unit hull cuts a ship's travel time by two days. For example, a 3 unit ship with 9 fully manned sails would cut its travel time by two days, crossing a 6 day ocean province in just 4 days.
Conversely, if a ship has less than two full-staffed sails per unit hull, it will add two days of travel time. A ship with less than one sail per two units hull cannot move at all.