Last Monday night a terrible fire raged on the Batavia Yard in Lelystad. I worked there for a while as volunteer. I have posted about the Batavia Yard on another forum.
http://www.bataviawerf.nl/en/index.html
Thank goodness the Batavia ship and the 7 Provincien, the ship the yard is building at the moment, are safe.
All the sails of the Batavia ship (1200m2) are lost in the fire. It took volunteers 10 years to make them, now they have to start all over again.
How much extra sail had ships in Nelson’s time on board, to replace them if they had to do so? If one ship ran out of sail, could they “borrow” from another?
Sylvia