However, what impressed Deirane and Hester most was the ship that was anchored in front of the harbor. From where they were, they had a bird's eye view of it. It was so long that it took up every available space at the end of the docks. It was over a hundred poles long from bow to stern and almost as wide. Two parallel hulls were connected by common decks, a structure the Helariaseny called a catamaran. This created a huge, almost square, flat surface from which the two bows emerged at the front and was closed at the rear by a castle on which the rudder wheel was installed.
Four masts were aligned centrally; however, at the front there were two beams, each carrying its own set of jibs. The sails, for the moment furled, were sky blue, the hull the color of the sea; it was designed to be di
