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The round ship has a substantially higher freeboard area than the ram-ship, which is lower, and so this boarding arrangement is feasible. - (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #66)

There were crews on these ships armed with grappling irons and each of the ships carried two or more "grappling bridges". These resemble sturdy, heavy gangplanks, some five feet in width, with a heavy spike or nail, some two feet in length and some four inches in width, on the underside. They are to be fastened at one end to the round ship and are intended to be dropped, with their ponderous spiked ends, into the deck of an enemy ship, thus nailing, or fastening, the ships together. The round ship has a substantially higher freeboard area than the ram-ship, which is lower, and so this boarding arrangement is feasible. Commonly, of course, it is the round ship, with her normally small, free crews, which attempts to evade boarding. But now I expected, to the surprise of attacking ram-ships which might attempt to board them, they would find themselves boarded, and their decks overwhelmed with swarms of armed, free men. We had crowded far more armed men into each of these round ships than would be carried even in the normal crew of a heavy-class tarn ship. - (Raiders of Gor)