i thought sloops where supposed to be faster in headwind, why did i watch a gally pull away steady in dead headwind
sloop headwind speed
@squanchysmurf is the opposite, and has its logic because the galleon has 3 sails that pick up wind and the sloop only one
They do, sloop goes faster against the wind with its sails pointed directly at the wind. There is a YouTube video someone posted in here proving this.
The reason the sloop is faster is the galleon has more mass, it’s heavier and has more drag than a sloop.
However if any of those sails are catching any wind they will catch you.
I change directions to create a gap then make my final turn against the wind to make a getaway.
Hmm, I don't know. It has always been my experience that the sloop can outrun a galleon directly against the wind. Was your sail locked full to one side?
Even a slight variation off direct headwind, the galleon will pick up more speed, especially with a subtle zig zag if the crew can manage to handle their sails properly. Maybe the had two sails to one side, and the third sail to the other side, to pick up as much wind as possible as the wind slightly wavers side to side
@warlordwoody22 yes, you can do a resistance test against a galleon that keeps going against the wind, it's super boring but you'll see that they never reach you, I did it once and they were almost an hour following me and little by little you leave them behind, what more funny of this story is that when they stopped following me they went to a fort and I went behind them and together with another sloop we sank them 2 times hahaha
@warlordwoody22 said in sloop headwind speed:
They do, sloop goes faster against the wind with its sails pointed directly at the wind. There is a YouTube video someone posted in here proving this.
The reason the sloop is faster is the galleon has more mass, it’s heavier and has more drag than a sloop.
However if any of those sails are catching any wind they will catch you.
I change directions to create a gap then make my final turn against the wind to make a getaway.
In reality, the sloop was faster into the wind because of its triangular Bermuda or jib rigged sails that could achieve extreme angles with the wind, as opposed to square-rigged sails that could not catch wind at angles far away from dead center.
In addition, the galleon had much higher ‘hull speed’ because of of its length. Essentially, longer boat hulls have faster top speeds due to wave physics (link below).
https://www.boats.com/reviews/crunching-numbers-hull-speed-boat-length/
@el-mandarina said in sloop headwind speed:
@squanchysmurf is the opposite, and has its logic because the galleon has 3 sails that pick up wind and the sloop only one
Headwind means wind coming from the front of the ship.
@warlordwoody22 the real reason (discerned from testing in-game) seems to be that each sail that "billows" adds a bonus, and the galleon gets 3 to the sloop's 1. The base speed of the sloop is faster in any direction, but the wind bonuses make the galleon considerably faster with the wind. The sloops "should" always move a little bit faster than the galleon if neither has wind.
Oh, and if you are bringing real world physics into this, then you'll have to use the stats for catboats, not sloops. Sloops have two sails to the catboat's one.
Your agreeing with what I said using different details. A lot of reasons why it is I suppose.
It sounds to me as if the wind wasn't a true headwind despite the perception that it was. It doesn't take much wind for the speed advantage of a sloop to be overtaken by the galleon. Also it may be that they were not following in as perfectly straight a line to you as you may have believed. If they were coming at an angle that gave them even a slight wind increase compared to yours they will catch up. Even if they were in a perfectly true straight line behind you.... if that wind is angled even a shade too much more than dead on the advantage diminishes quickly.
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