[OSM-talk] maritime borders

[Robin Paulson]

On 13/01/2008, Lukasz Stelmach <stlman at poczta.fm> wrote:
> > according to wp, it was the range of a cannon in 14th c or something....
>
> XIV c. ships would draw rather then carried a cannon that could
> shoot as far as 22.2 km. It must be something different.

i should say, i'm no expert on this, but the article i was talking
about mentioned land cannons, which probably had none of the weight
constraints that ship-based cannons did.
anyway, i digress....