<div><p>Welcome to Freebase.  I'd be happy to help with data loading when you get to that point in the process.</p>
<p>The current schema appears to have principally developed to deal with engine powered war ships and breaks down quickly when you stray from that realm.  It really needs to be refactored into a set of types which are more tightly focused with core properties which are common to all vessels and then layering on types for war vessels, sailing vessels, etc.</p>
<p>To see an example of the "base" that Gordon (gmackenz) was referring to, have a look at <a href="http://sails.freebase.com/">http://sails.freebase.com/</a>  Doing something like that allows you to experiment with new properties, populate them with data, see how they fit with the existing schema, etc.  Things can migrate from there to commons as was done with the ship designer property which was originally just in my separate base.</p>
<p>Let me know if you need a hand with either the schema or the data loading.</p>
<p>Tom</p></div>