> The boat carrying it should, in theory, be less likely to become a shipwreck. Alternatively, only a few boats would have had one, and the ones that did were

> The boat carrying it should, in theory, be less likely to become a shipwreck. Alternatively, only a few boats would have had one, and the ones that did were using them to strike out further afield than their less well-equipped contemporaries. Since they could be more confident about their location, they could venture further from land and might get caught by storms more easily.