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  1. Pleased to see me? No, that's an actual ship. Feral Wizard's Battle Box: Age of Sail packs a complete naval wargame into a pocket sized tin. Frigate duels, privateer raids, treasure fleet chases in under 30 minutes. On Kickstarter til May 21
    #navalwargames #AgeOfSail #BattleBox #wargames #NapoleonicWars
    tabletopsentinel.com/news/hist

  2. Sailing Toward the Tempest "Ride with British Naval Captain Joseph Duncan as he sails the Atlantic in search of enemy French ships" Sale: $17.95 to $6.99 by Kent M. Schwendy Rating: 4.6/5 (1,897 Reviews) #NavalFiction #HistoricalFiction #WarFiction #AgeOfSail #Sailing #Adventure #BookSky

    Sailing Toward the Tempest

  3. We all have different culinary problems, and different culinary solutions!

  4. We all have different culinary problems, and different culinary solutions!

  5. We all have different culinary problems, and different culinary solutions!

  6. We all have different culinary problems, and different culinary solutions!

  7. We all have different culinary problems, and different culinary solutions!

  8. In "Sharpe's Trafalgar" the titular protagonist travels on a British navy ship of the line and we get various descriptions of the cavernous bowels of the ship, filled with fetid airs and scurrying rats - as well as this line:

    "Cowper, the purser, who normally stayed mole-like in the lower depths of the ship..."

    Which immediately makes me think that in a fantasy age of sail, dwarves or goblins at sea would take on the below deck work.

    #osr #ttrpg #ageofsail #worldbuilding #sharpe

  9. Was that the James Craig i just saw out at the Heads?

    #AgeOfSail
    #TallShips

  10. CLIWOC (Oceanography 🌊)

    The Climatological database for the world's oceans was a research project to convert ships' logbooks into a computerised database. It was funded by the European Union, and the bulk of the work was done between 2001 and 2003. The database draws on British, Dutch, French and Spanish ships' logbook records for the immediate pre-instrumental period, 175...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIWOC

    #Cliwoc #AgeOfSail #Oceanography #2003InScience #ShipDatabases #DatabasesInEurope

  11. The time has come! Arsenic & Old Lace has been set free! This game is set during the age of sail (mid 15th century through the mid 20th century) with a dash of supernatural and mythos and a backdrop of the English Civil War (or any way during that time really).

    It is inspired by Sword and Backpack and includes the ye olde invisible rulebook to assist the Storytellers with consistency and fairness.

    jamesthook.itch.io/arsenic-old

    #ttrpg
    #fkr
    #osr
    #swordandbackpack
    #ageofsail
    #pirates
    #cthulhu

  12. Return of the age of sail, yet somehow fitting it's also for the space age.
    Fascinating piece in Le Monde about the transport of #Ariane6 to Guiana..
    #AgeOfSail #spaceAge
    HT @fj

    mastodon.social/@fj/1112889913

  13. "The reason I'm so confident is our savings - one-and-a-half tonnes of fuel per day. Get four wings on a vessel, that's six tonnes of fuel saved, that's 20 tonnes of CO2 saved - per day. The numbers are massive."

    #sail #ClimateChange #shipping #ships #AgeOfSail

    bbc.com/news/technology-665436