regshoe

Hee—I have a high tolerance for slow pacing and exposition, but I think that's an understandable reaction :P

Ooh, thank you for the recs! The copy of Master & Commander which I read has a little labelled diagram of a ship at the front which explained some of the terms, but a more extensive glossary would have been handy, and I see my library has a copy of A Sea of Words in the reference section.