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Originally Posted by DouglasCole
Seems like vaguely all you'd need to know is "faster, slower, or roughly the same speed." The only thing different here than car chase is the time scale.
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Yes, but the vessels in
Fantasy display relative speeds that are often ahistorical or just plain unbelievable.
A chase between a
'Pirate ship' and a normal
'Fishing boat' will usually turn out in the favour of the fishing boat. A gargantuan Spanish galleon* is faster than smaller vessels built for speed and fully 33% faster than historically.
*While I understand that a greater sail area contributes to greater speed, a galleon's shape is hardly conductive to fast sailing. The Spanish galleon modelled here is specifically an unweatherly ship that's slower than the race-built models that eventually replaced it.