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Whereas the typical shallow-drafted Gorean vessel, low in the water, mast down, as noted, can be difficult to detect, its presence is much more easily marked when its mast is raised. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 52, Sentence #119)

"I tried to warn you away," said Tab. "Ho!" cried a mariner on the stern deck of the Dorna, pointing abeam, to his starboard side, "a mast, a mast!" "That is a signal," I said, "the raising of a mast". "Doubtless," said Tab. Whereas the typical shallow-drafted Gorean vessel, low in the water, mast down, as noted, can be difficult to detect, its presence is much more easily marked when its mast is raised. Much depends, of course, on a variety of factors, the height of the mast, the type of sail on the yard, say, a fair-weather sail or storm sail, or such, and the point from which the observation is made, say, from the main deck or the height of one's own mast, and so on. "There is another!" called the mariner pointing abeam, past the Tesephone, to his port side. Shortly thereafter he had called out thrice more. - (Avengers of Gor)