Quote Originally Posted by Dobbs View Post
If you are assuming that Full Sails is "getting there fast", and that some frigates can do 14 knots, then you are suggesting that the middle wind speed for the game is 15-20 knots or more, considering that the hulls were not efficient by today's standards. There's no way that ships of this time period could exceed the wind speed, especially down wind.
My point here was that a fast frigate was only fast if it had the wind to drive it. If it could go 14 knots, that probably only happened when it was blowing 25+ knots, and the captain was pushing the ship. It would not be going 14 knots in a combat situation involving close maneuvering.