HardyKnox

Is a PDF suitable for printing available? I admit, I have not read through all 7 pages of these postings. ~ HK ~

Ahhh ... in the period in which this simulation/game is set, artificial light was limited to candle and lamp light ... 20th century brightness would be out of place. I have had no trouble finding cities at night, assuming my navigation is sound and I make landfall near the city.

In addition to all the excellent suggestions of reading, your friend would also benefit from the informative video about the most famous of the original "Six Frigates" USS Constitution -- the Oldest Commissioned Warship in the World...Still Sailing!at "Old Ironsides" is moored in Boston and is open to the public when it is not at sea. She is still a commissioned warship of the U.S. Navy and is taken out and turned around and brought back every year.

There should be a item in the game for "American Whiskey" made from Corn (Rye or Maize) and aged in charred American Oak Barrels. Of course, if no whiskey tax has been paid, it will be subject to seizure by the U.S. Treasury Revenue Cutters patrolling off the coast of America. Here's the song sung by Gordon Lightfoot and friends, "Copper Kettle": Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil Fill it with new made corn mash And never more you'll toil You'll just lay there by the juniper While the moon is bright Watch them jugs a filling in the pale moonlight Build you a fire with hickory, hickory, ash and oak Don't use no green or rotten wood They'll get you by the smoke We'll just lay there by the juniper While the moon is bright Watch them jugs a filling in the pale moonlight My daddy, he made whiskey My granddaddy, he did too We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792 We'll just lay there by the juniper While the moon is bright Watch them jugs a filling in the pale moonlight In the pale moonlight Songwriters A.F. BEDDOE Published by Lyrics © T.R.O. INC.

A battle in which the Constitution fought is in the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. The Fortune of War, #6 in the series. The whole series is historically representative but focuses on ship handling and battle craft in the days of "Wooden SHips and Iron Men". Many regard the series as one of if not the best about 19th century war sailing.

I doubt this would satisfy the whiners, but looks like a valuable and period-appropriate addition to the navigation tool set. Now all we need is some sort of sextant to "shoot the sun" and determine position thereby ... a capability available from the mid-18th century but discussed in principle earlier by Sir Issac Newton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant Perhaps an advanced skill and tool could be included in the game, a perk to be earned ... "Celestial Navigation" ... with grades of skill, and requiring a "Chronometer" with grades of quality and a "Sextant" of grades of quality and "Star tables" of various quality. Combined, they might allow the captain to determine latitude and longitude and other knowledge. ~ H. Knox ~

Lytse, excellent post and thoughts. Have you also thought about the implementation of negotiable instruments, documents that represent the deposit of goods or bullion, plus the promise to pay on presentation at any branch of the issuer? These could be issued by private or national banks or private dealers. Those instruments could then be sent by fast packet and presented in a distant port to be used like currency. National bank basic functions could be automated. From there, it would not be far to bills of leading and documentary letters of credit. Again, great work! ~ H. Knox ~

Useful thread ... confirms what I had figured out. The contract works like a consignment or agent commission.