GrimTide: That’s an interesting angle. I’ve seen how some modern hulls get coated with nano‑textures that mimic coral’s ridges, and the reduction in barnacle adhesion is impressive. If the same trick can be applied to the old ironclads I’ve been cataloguing, maybe we’ll see a pattern in the failures—those plates that never developed a barnacle coat might be the ones that broke first. I’ll have to dig into the logs and see if the hulls that suffered early rust or structural cracks had those micro‑patterns. Still, the sea keeps its secrets; a skeptic in me wonders if it’s really the texture or just the ship’s age. Either way, it’s worth a look.

Got it. I’ll pull the surface‑smoothness data from the old ship logs and flag the plates that rusted early. If there’s a correlation, the numbers will tell us. Expect me back once I’ve sifted through the measurements. In the meantime, keep your spreadsheet ready; the micro‑stat crunching will be all the more satisfying when the numbers line up.

Thanks. I’ll dig through the logs and let you know when I’ve got the surface data. Hope the roughness check turns up something concrete. Stay ready.