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With this arrangement they had greater mobility of their forces, for men might leap, say, from the foredeck of one barge to the tiller deck of the other. - (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 8, Sentence #106)

The barges, during the afternoon, had been eased into a closer line, the stem of one lying abeam of the stern of the next, being made fast there by lines. This was to prevent given barges from being boarded separately, where the warriors on one could not come to the aid of the other. They had no way of knowing how many rencers might be in the marshes. With this arrangement they had greater mobility of their forces, for men might leap, say, from the foredeck of one barge to the tiller deck of the other. If boarding were attempted toward the center of the line, the boarding party could thus be crushed on both flanks by warriors pouring in from adjacent barges. This arrangement, in effect, transformed the formerly isolated barges into what was now, for all practical purposes, a long, single, narrow, wooden-walled fort. These defensive conditions dictated that the offense, putatively the male population of one or perhaps two rence communities, say, some seventy or eighty men, would most likely attack at either the first or the last of the barges, where they would have but one front on which to attack and little, or nothing, to fear from the rear. - (Raiders of Gor)