The wind

[saviola]

Hi why is the wind only blowning to west..cant i change it? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/keith.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="keith.gif" />

 

[skull]

ahoy mate an welcome te PA,as te yer question, ye can't change de wind direction,but ye can get cotton sails fer yer ship te make it sail faster there are ships in de game that sail better than others against the wind,haveing navigator skill fer yerself or picking ome up in de game will increase yer speed,all these things help when yer inte de wind <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

 

[Darknight]

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Welcome to the Carribean, cully!

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Are you God?

'Cause that is the way the wind blows in the Carribs, landlubber!

 

[rupertlittlebear]

At the higher difficulty levels, the wind seems to always change to blow in your face.

The best advise is to tack. (Sail at angles to the wind.) Sail in the general direction of your destination, not directly towards it. Watch the wind direction and watch how it is changing. Take advantage of the shifts.

 

[hintonwe]

I'm noticing that my Brig seems to sail the fastest across the main map when the windspeed is very low- reversed in speed in fact; say it's a draggy 8 knots on the compass- the ship is flying across the screen, but switch to an attack and the ship drops to `dead-in`-the water on the combat map. I don't recall this between 1660 and 1670 but I'm seeing it all the time now. bug? I think so- because if I switch to trailing view, I can turn the ship on a dime and the speed immediately starts to pick up, but if I stay in overhead view it takes forever to speed up. Facing is irrelevant. Any other Brig problems? I went fine with all the rest--- Aye, I miss me sloop... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" />

 

[v_Grimmelshausen]

A funny thing I noticed in SMP, you can actualy sail _faster_ than the wind.

 

[Mack the Knife]

funny, maybe but true. has to do with a phenomenon called apparent wind. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" />


<b>moderators</b>- before when i hit Reply to comment on a topic and wasn't logged in it took me tot he login screen then back to where i could enter my comment. now, i'm taken to the main page. also, when i click Login/Logout at the top of the forum it takes me to the main page after i log in rather than back to the forum. how come? you guys tryin' to advertise the main site more? kind of a hassle to do this or is me doin' sumthun wrong? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

 

[v_Grimmelshausen]

I can hardly believe that. How should a ship, slowed by the friction of the hull in the water, be able to go faster than the wind propelling it?

Except, of course, you mean by "apparent wind" the wind felt on board of the ship. But even then, the best a ship can do is having no wind on his deck (which would be perfect sailing and impossible due to friction), but not actually going faster. Or is it <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

And, as I read it, the wind displayed is supposed to be "objective", i.e. not influenced in it´s measure by the ships movement.

 

[Rumpenstumpen]

Yupp! A ship can sail faster than the wind. You can read about it <a href="http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/sailing.html" target="_blank">here</a> (scroll down a bit to the section "How can boats sail faster than the wind?".

 

[v_Grimmelshausen]

I´m impressed, I didn´t know that <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="onya.gif" /> . The question of course is, does this hold true to the ships constructed in the 17th century, as a lot of the physics were yet to be discovered, then. But then, probably the <i>effects</i> were already known due to experiences, but lacked the scientific explanation.

 

[Wolfwood]

Yeah, they probably knew how to take benefit from the effect, very much like in the medieval times castle defenders knew how to take advantage of gravity when pouring hot oil onto the attackers even though Newton had not yet come up with the idea of gravity.

Seriously, though, I did not know about this sailing trick either, although it is so logical when you read about it that it embarrasses one not to have realised it oneself...