Thread:The Second Age Server/@comment-30506519-20161117113552/@comment-29095449-20161120104400

Boats made to sail on a river would rarely be able to keep afloat on Ocean water due to all the strong waves and such. Just look at the Mongolian invasion of Japan (they tried using chinese river boats to cross the ocean to Japan, it went horribly wrong). The same goes for ships made for the ocean, the larger they were - the harder it would be for them to stay afloat on freshwater lakes, simply because they sometimes could be too heavy for the still, quiet and un-salty water of the lakes  (saltwater is easier to stay afloat on). So to summarize, a fleet made on the mostly still and quiet freshwater rivers/lakes would have a very hard time sailing on the saltwater oceans with all the large waves and such, that if the Elves would even be able to move them from the rivers of Lorien to Ocean. So all in all, that would be very unlikely.

~MK