This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml Onno Meyer, 2010-07-26
Anachronistic Schooner v1.0 (TL2) Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer Modern adventurers have shown how oceans could have been crossed with primitive boats. Backgrounds where such voyages become a reality rather than a theoretical possibility might see custom craft like this little schooner. The technologies would have been available in Greek or Roman times, if shipwrights had seen the need to combine them ... The 50-ton schooner has two masts with one lugsail each. Her captain would never put much faith in unknown winds and currents alone, so she has ten oars and a large crew. She can make 10 knots with a fresh wind, and perhaps 2 to 3 knots under oars. She can even tack upwind, though not as well as a historical schooner. The main problem is the lack of navigation instruments -- compass and sextant would be unknown, so her navigator can do little better than dead reckoning. The Anachronistic Schooner can be sailed by four or five seamen, but her usual complement is about twenty to allow for maintenance, repairs, landing parties, malnutrition, and sickness. As listed, she carries 23 tons of cargo, but most of that are food, water, spares, and a few small boats. A full load of provisions is $18,000. Subassemblies: Body +6, two Masts +1. Powertrain: 10 rowing positions; 1,750-sf lugsails. Occ: 1 NCS, 10 XRCS, 20 hammocks. Cargo: 400 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 3/8 3/8 3/8 3/8 3/8 Masts: 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 Equipment Body: Carpentry mini-workshop; 3,000 man-days of provisions. Statistics Size: 60'x15'x60' Payload: 25 tons Lwt.: 50 tons Volume: 5,000 cf Maint.: 201 hours Price: $158,520 HT: 12. HPs: 3,000 Body, 80 each Mast Using Sails at a Fresh Breeze: wSpeed: 11 wAccel: 0.6 wDecel: 0.4 wMR: 0.02 wSR: 3 Draft 3.4'. Flotation 141.8 tons. MUA 40°. Using Oars: wSpeed: 3 wAccel: 0.01 wDecel: 0.4 wMR: 0.02 wSR: 3 Draft 3.4'. Flotation 141.8 tons. Design Notes Finely made. Body is 4,975 cf, with mediocre lines. Masts are 12.5 cf and 50' each. Structure is medium, expensive. Armor is expensive wood. Waterproofed. Primitive controls. 649 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 50,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, December '09 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A big truck for desert worlds. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
