Jess A
Archmage
Hello,
This seems like a silly question.
I have a setting in a cold region. The duke's castle backs some low mountains and it is fronted by a very large 'lake'. The town is spread on the lake shores. The lake swells in the summer with mountain snow melts, but otherwise is not fed by anything else. It freezes over as the temperature plunges. It is not frozen over in the warmer months.
There are no overly large vessels - nothing seaworthy - what's the point, when they can't get to the sea? It is quite an inland region and to get to the sea requires land travel. There are fishing vessels and some larger ones to carry goods to the other side of the shore (for some things it's quicker to cut straight across the lake rather than use the roads to go around it).
I'm assuming even the largest of the vessels (some are not exactly small) would have to be pulled onto land and there would be a boat shed/etc set aside for this? Can anyone go into more detail for me? The people must be quite used to moving the boats. Do they flood a special area (to move the ships) before the lake freezes, then drain it?
Thanks.
This seems like a silly question.
I have a setting in a cold region. The duke's castle backs some low mountains and it is fronted by a very large 'lake'. The town is spread on the lake shores. The lake swells in the summer with mountain snow melts, but otherwise is not fed by anything else. It freezes over as the temperature plunges. It is not frozen over in the warmer months.
There are no overly large vessels - nothing seaworthy - what's the point, when they can't get to the sea? It is quite an inland region and to get to the sea requires land travel. There are fishing vessels and some larger ones to carry goods to the other side of the shore (for some things it's quicker to cut straight across the lake rather than use the roads to go around it).
I'm assuming even the largest of the vessels (some are not exactly small) would have to be pulled onto land and there would be a boat shed/etc set aside for this? Can anyone go into more detail for me? The people must be quite used to moving the boats. Do they flood a special area (to move the ships) before the lake freezes, then drain it?
Thanks.