The cargo ship "Chesapeake" plied the waves, filled with the jagged moonlight, between Plymouth and La Rochelle. Driven by the inflated sails blown by the night wind, the ship sailed straight towards the distant horizon where the sky met the sea.
Recently popular among the Charlemagne people who lacked seafaring experience, this large cargo sailing ship called a catamaran was built by placing two ships side by side and laying a deck between them, so as to improve stability and increase the cargo load. It was especially popular in waveless areas like the Cantabrian Sea and Lamangsh Strait where waves were only three feet high.
The ship resembled a magnified wooden raft, stretching 150 meters in length and 160 meters in width. Rather than referring to it as a raft, it would be more accurate to call it a moving wooden island, which aptly described its stable sailing posture.
