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Look up the Sutton Hoo (East Anglian) ship. It offers us a good idea as to what West Germanic ships at the time looked like. It was basically an early Viking longship, but the boat is deeper & has a roof instead of a sail
There is more of these ships found around the late roman & early migration era & it seems to be that the only adopted the sail around the 8th century. The sail was spread by the Norse to the English by the 9th century & King Alfred rapidly built a fleet said to be more impressive then Denmarks. The quick adoption of the sail from Norse contact was likely because the English & Saxons were basically using the same boats to begin with
This is likely because the North Sea Germanics were fishing cultures who were more individualistic then other Germanic tribes according to Tacitus
Anyway, it's really not a big deal. I just wanted to point it out because I found it funny.