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Should've told me :) Last night saw a link for medieval armor and weapons
that included build times and costs for France/Germany. Darn. What
was that keyword I used..."Ancient Building Costs" I think. But
can't recall now it was like 2am :) As to the high costs. It does
sound high. But its a start. I mainly wanted to figure out the BF
per Hectare since I have a figure that tells how many BF ACTUALLY existed in a
galley. From that data I can then figure BF estimates for ships higher
and lower. Then that gives a basic cost for the wood and then just have
to figure out the BF base cost. But when you look at the FACTUAL figure
even if you give .1 bb per board that's still alot o gold. Ships are
expensive that's a fact. But how far do we go down? .00001 BB per
BF? :) I'll have to figure this out. <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I think I remember that site the indicated
how many hectares of woodland were required to build a ship, with clear-cut and
managed numbers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m not thrilled with the “hectares”
method, since you have to make real wild assumptions on the number of boardfeet
in a hectare. I would think a better method is to simply get the weight
of the ship, divide by something in the 40-50 range (specific weight of wood)
to find cubic feet, then multiplying by 12 to find board-feet.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It’s real rough, but I would think
not as rough as the other method.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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