Schooner

The schooner is a rare, gaff-rigged, two masted vessel capable of steering almost directly into the wind. Slower than a Cutter the schooner nevertheless can accommodate more crew and guns and has more cargo space than the slightly smaller cutter.

The schooner is a relatively new design developed by the shipwrights of Corynthia in the far south that allows their merchants to navigate the northern trade routes in winter despite the regular northerly winds that have made travel into the north Poseidic difficult for years.

Despite its innocent origins the schooner's potential as a smuggling vessel and also as a small pirate ship has been seized upon by pirate crews operating from Cestrafel Reef in the south Circle Sea.

The design has very recently been brought to the shores of Balia and, though only a handful of these ships are present they have already made quite a favourable impression on the local smuggling crews who are almost tripping over themselves to get hold of one.