Square rigged ships often found manoeuvring into docks to be the most likely time that that their sails were damaged. Captain Johannson of the Danish fleet or squared rigged vessels commented on entering the Mulberry Harbour off the coast of Benin “the dockers found that on lowering the shipment of goji berry the sales flapped so vigorously that they began to bang and clash the cargo together”. It seems that from the records of the voyage, the problem was one that befell them on numerous occasions, being both a long and terminable trip. The good Captain on writing to his wife Helle back in his home town of Copenhagen wrote ‘my darling wife, how I long for this journey to be ended, the sails are of enormous vexation to me. God only knows why the Directorate have stipulated with such force the use of the damnable rigging, it ways us down and causes damage to other vessels’.