Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 307 | View more quotes about accordingly">Accordingly the ram-ship most commonly sails only with a fair wind. |
| 14 | 308 | Further, she is less seaworthy than the round ship, having a lower freeboard area, being more easily washed with waves, and having a higher keel-to-beam ratio, making the danger of breaking apart in a high sea greater than it would be with a round ship. |
| 14 | 309 | There are in the building of ships, as in other things, values to be weighed. |
| 14 | 310 | The ram-ship is not built for significant sail dependence or maximum seaworthiness. |
| 14 | 311 | She is built for speed, and the capacity to destroy other shipping. |
| 14 | 312 | She is not a rowboat but a racing shell; she is not a club but a rapier. |
| 14 | 313 | I, swaying in the basket at the masthead, with the glass of the builders, smiled. |
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Accordingly the ram-ship most commonly sails only with a fair wind.
Further, she is less seaworthy than the round ship, having a lower freeboard area, being more easily washed with waves, and having a higher keel-to-beam ratio, making the danger of breaking apart in a high sea greater than it would be with a round ship.
There are in the building of ships, as in other things, values to be weighed.
The ram-ship is not built for significant sail dependence or maximum seaworthiness.
She is built for speed, and the capacity to destroy other shipping.
She is not a rowboat but a racing shell; she is not a club but a rapier.
I, swaying in the basket at the masthead, with the glass of the builders, smiled.
- (Raiders of Gor)