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I will briefly explain the nature of the "delay". - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 23, Sentence #18)

"Besides being hungry and thirsty," said Clitus, "they must eventually have been dismayed and frightened, fearing that something was askew, that they might have been overlooked, ignored, forgotten, or abandoned. Doubtless they feared they might have been, inadvertently or not, left to die on the decoy platform". "The delay," said Thurnock, "gave the merchantmen an unrecoverable lead, one which not even the swiftest knife ship could overcome". I will briefly explain the nature of the "delay". Gorean mariners, as is often the case with mariners, have a very special sense of their ships. The landsman may think of a ship as an object or artifact, little different, in essence, save in size and purpose, from a cabinet or chair, a wall or flight of stairs. The mariner, on the other hand, who entrusts his life to his ship, commonly views it differently, more deeply and closely, more personally. - (Avengers of Gor)