The inspiration for The Goddess in The World Revealed

In my novel 'The World Revealed', Hamish (the main character) has a living Whitestone ship that forms herself into the most efficient sailing vessel possible. She flies above the water on the tips of her claws on her outstretched arms, and her tail.

When Hamish attempts to tack The Goddess for the first time the seas are rather large, and he stalls her halfway. The Goddess then begins to drift backwards down a steep, breaking wave and flips over her stern quarter - since her floats don't extent far enough aft to go backwards.

The Goddess manages to extent her back-legs, and join her feet to her hands, so she then has floats as long as her main hull, and looks more like Sodebo, below - but still with the foils of l'Hydroptere.