I think RARE a bit embarrassed itself by calling the smaller ship a sloop. It is actually a cog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(ship)).
SoT "Sloop" is not actually a sloop
@sl00pd00g said in SoT "Sloop" is not actually a sloop:
I think RARE a bit embarrassed itself by calling the smaller ship a sloop. It is actually a cog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(ship)).
I think they could have called it anything they wanted considering it's their fantasy world. They could have called it a "little guy", if they wanted to.
@john-von-wells Took me a minute, but eventually I got it :)
@sl00pd00g Now I want them to change it...
@sl00pd00g So, I don't know much about boats. From what I have seen, it looks like sloops are quite small. Can they vary in size? The ones I have seen don't look like they would fit in the game that well. Perhaps a schooner?
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Did some more googling. Apparently sloop only refers to the sails configuration. So I guess you could have a large sloop?@xcalypt0x
They say that civilian sloop is different from sloop of war. Here is a Wikipedia article:
Not quite. The ships in Sea of Thieves look to be carvel-built. A cog should be clinker-built. The sloop in game could be more modeled after this: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater/collection/TR_319818.html It makes sense as they're a British dev and America was still colonies during that time. The game also takes place around the late 1600s- the 1700s, which is way too late for the cog to be prevalent. Yes, the triangular sails are off, but that's just rigging. Change the rigging from the fore-and-aft/ triangular rigging to square rigging (not as efficient irl) and the boat is the sloop in game.
Just for further explanation: "A sloop has only one head-sail; if a vessel has two or more head-sails, the term cutter is used, and its mast may be set further aft than on a sloop."
@sl00pd00g That would be a ship rigged sloop looking at it (as in 3 masts and square sails) a sloop of war I'm fairly sure could be either of war was more a designation of military usage.
Sloop-of-war - Wikipedia
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