Flawed Hero
United States
Rochester
New York
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1) If you take the ship building action, and end up with a bow, a stern and at least one middle section, does that mean your ship must automatically sail at the end of the turn? Even if they are meant to become parts of two different ships? In other words, are you allowed to wait until a time of your choosing to send it on the shakedown cruise?
2) regarding the order of your ship tiles on your player board: the far-left spot is only for bows, and the far-right spot is only for sterns. Any piece can go in between? I feel this section of the rules is poorly explained. can the pieces be out of order and you take what you want from it to send your ship out for the shakedown? what is the process for adding ship tiles to your player mat and then deciding which can be used for which ships?
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Doug Adams
Australia
Oakleigh
Victoria
Boink
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1) If your bow, stern and middle(s) are all joined together to make a complete ship, then yes it sails that turn. To stop that happening, don't bolt them together in adjacent spaces.
2) Any pieces can go in between, as long as it can potentially create a complete ship (so no bows in the two right most spaces, and same for sterns on the left most spaces). Tiles get committed to spaces when you buy them, and ships get all shook up when they are finished (B-M-...-M-S).
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Drew
United States
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
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Jim K wrote: what is the process for adding ship tiles to your player mat and then deciding which can be used for which ships?
Where you place them, they stay. They cannot be moved. So once you place a bow and a stern, you've determined the size of your ship. (Though you could possibly place a second bow and stern inside the first and create a smaller ship, sail it, then a larger ship.)
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Steve Duff
Canada
Ottawa
Ontario
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Doug has it all correct.
Basically, the easiest way to think of it is that once a ship piece is placed in one of the designated spots on your mat, it's stuck in that one spot and never moves (until a full ship is completed including it).
Once the ship is completed, slide the pieces toward you off the bottom edge of the mat. All pieces not belonging to that ship stay exactly where they are.
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Flawed Hero
United States
Rochester
New York
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ah -- I think I got it, thanks guys for the great responses. One follow up question though to solidify things in my mind (and I think II already know the answer): say you have a bow in the far-left space, a middle piece two spaces to the right, and a stern to the far right so it looks like this:
B - M - - - S
could you at the end of your turn set sail by bringing these pieces together?
I believe based on your answers to my questions that the answer is no, because once those pieces are placed the empty spots have to be filled in with other pieces, correct?
thanks again! 
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Jeff Thornsen
United States
Nottingham
Maryland
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Correct, you would have to acquire more Middle pieces to finish the ship and sail it. You could also put a Stern in there, but then the ship would be smaller, and the original Stern tile would still be on your board.
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