Quote Originally Posted by William Waller
How did that work?

Would you not have to ship oars before you used the guns?

Do you have a picture at of these. Sounds fasinating!
I dont seem to be able to upload images, but here is a link to a Swedish site with a summary in english at the bottom. The lowermost ship is a Turuma-class archipelago frigate.

About the handling, i can only cite Oddball in Kellys Heroes; "I only drive the damn thing. I don´t how it works" Or somtehing like that.

And i never drove one either...
http://axelnelson.com/skepp/fregatt.htm