Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 161 | The decking on the View more quotes about ship">ship is loose, and may be lifted or put to one side, to increase cargo space. |
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 158 | It was a raider's ship. |
| 2 | 159 | The clinker-built construction, as opposed to the carvel construction of the south, with flush planking, is somewhat more inclined to leak, but it is much stronger in the high waters of the north. |
| 2 | 160 | The clinker construction allows the ship to literally bend and twist, almost elastically, in a vicious sea; the hull planking can be bent more than a foot Gorean without buckling. |
| 2 | 161 | The decking on the ship is loose, and may be lifted or put to one side, to increase cargo space. |
| 2 | 162 | The ship, of course, is open. |
| 2 | 163 | To protect goods or men from the rain or sun a large rectangle of boskhide, on stakes, tentlike, stretched to cleats on the gunwales, is sometimes used. |
| 2 | 164 | This same rectangle of boskhide may be used, dropped between the gunwales, to collect rain water. |
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It was a raider's ship.
The clinker-built construction, as opposed to the carvel construction of the south, with flush planking, is somewhat more inclined to leak, but it is much stronger in the high waters of the north.
The clinker construction allows the ship to literally bend and twist, almost elastically, in a vicious sea; the hull planking can be bent more than a foot Gorean without buckling.
The decking on the ship is loose, and may be lifted or put to one side, to increase cargo space.
The ship, of course, is open.
To protect goods or men from the rain or sun a large rectangle of boskhide, on stakes, tentlike, stretched to cleats on the gunwales, is sometimes used.
This same rectangle of boskhide may be used, dropped between the gunwales, to collect rain water.
- (Marauders of Gor)