Jul 25, 2026, 8:48 PM@th Amazing! What I really want to know is what does a ship like this sound like? I've never been on a wooden vessel that large.
- Jul 25, 2026, 8:48 PM
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DerPumu (he/him)DerPumu@mstdn.gamesJul 26, 2026, 11:06 AM@scott @th I haven't been on that one, but on a similar sized wooden schooner and a larger brig with a steel hull.
What you can expect is mostly the sound of wind in the rigging, with the occasional creak of a wooden block, but he wrote they have only few of those in the Draken.
I'd also expect a bit of sloshing of bilge water down below.
The rest depends on the weather. Small waves lapping against the hull, or large waves pounding against the bow that send shivers through the whole ship. With stormy weather and large waves you'll usually also get some creaking in the hull or between the hull and deck.
In calm weather my experience is that sail ships of that size appear much less noisy than a yacht.
Jul 26, 2026, 5:57 PM@scott mostly wind sounds and creaking, although the audio team recorded lots of real boat noises to ensure that they had proper foley effects.
Jul 28, 2026, 8:44 AM@scott @th It’s hard to get anything but wind noise if you don’t have a boom mic, but here is a crew on the halyard winch. It’s much more interesting when they’re hoisting, because then they’re moving fast and it’s like a ballet, but here they’re just carefully putting in a minor adjustment. But you do get some wood creak.
