Sailing angles and broadsides

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I've spent the last couple of days drawing up replacement ship base inserts and measuring all sorts of distances of the original paper.
I'm trying to make it easier for any additional ships I want to rename and keeping them all looking the same.

While looking into the details I've made some observations that I'd like some outside input on.

Let me make it clear from the outset this is probably bordering on house rules and I don't expect my ships will see another ship belonging to someone else.

First up.... Sailing Angles

Over many years and different rule sets it's been drilled in (whether true or not) that the majority of ships could sail to about 60 degrees to the wind and elite sailors could manage closer to 45 degrees.

I noticed on the smaller ships especially that these angles are even more way out.



The number on the graph is the distance in mm's for each of the ships. The ones that are blank are due to arrive this week and I'll add them to this chart when they get here.
This is only the right side of the card that shows the comparisons the stern orange/green are about the same with one exception.

Is the differences just a way to differ the individual ships from one another or would it really matter if they were all the same and still controlled with their appropriate card decks.

What I was thinking was with the proposed sailing edge on the chart was to have the new blue area treated as red for normal crews but count as orange for elite crews at maybe a positive of the sailors lacking training optional rule cost. Or I could just leave them as is and design and print a minimum 18 different cards.

As far as broadsides go its a similar thing, most of the angles are the same just differ in the spread based on the length and width of the model with that one exception again.

For those that haven't guessed yet the exception is the Meregildos, whether because it's shorter than it should be if you look at its base card it seems to be at a disadvantage in both wind and gun angles and yet is the most point value ship to date.

When the base cards are all finished I intend to make them available to everyone or anyone that wants to use them.

I'll post up some actual progress pics after I make the final decision on which way to go.