The dry docks are called dry because they are the rare locations where a
dragonship is not anchored
some distance from the shore.
Since the waertagi trade with both the mermen and the landbased countries, most of the time a dragonship is docked far from land (a wet dock)
Cheers
Jean
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> <mailto:46A87FA3.4080700%40cea.fr>> DURUPT Jean writes:
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> >Well, in Brithos there is city named Waertagwal. I think it is there
> >that the dragonships were repaired and maybe dragged ashore.
> >
> >I was not clear enough about what I thought the dry docks are.
> >I see them as gigantic tubs, open to the sea, dug so that even at low
> >tide the water is at least 31m deep in them. They are colossal
> >structures because the walls around them must withstand the shock of
> >the wave when a dragonship enter or leave the harbor.
> >The dragonship is afloat inside a dry dock but immobile.
> >The walls can be used as wharves.
>
> Then why are they called "dry docks"?
>
> I'm not sure why an aquatic race would need a dry dock for repairs
> but maybe there's something which requires doing on dry land.
>
> Of course it's possible that the term was only applied to the
> structures after they fell into disrepair and their real use
> had been forgotten.
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> Donald Oddy
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