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Were I to hunt the world's end I would prefer to do so with the Dorna or the Tesephone, a sleek ship whose moods and gifts I well knew. - (Beasts of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #347)

Why one rudder rather than two? With lateen rigging one could sail closer to the wind. Of what use is a ram which makes its strike so high? I was not a shipwright, but I was a captain. It seemed to me such a ship would be too heavy to manage well, that it would be clumsy and slow, that it might be better fitted to cargo service when protected in a convoy than entrusted to confront, elude or brave the lean, lateen-rigged wolves of gleaming Thassa, hungry for the cargoes of the ineffectual and weak. Were I to hunt the world's end I would prefer to do so with the Dorna or the Tesephone, a sleek ship whose moods and gifts I well knew. Yet the ship of Tersites was strong. It loomed high and awesome, mighty with its strakes, proud with its uprearing prow, facing the sea canal. Standing beside the ship, on the ground, looking up at that high prow, so far above me, it seemed sometime that such a ship, if any, might embark upon that threatening, perhaps impossible voyage to the world's end. - (Beasts of Gor)