Originally posted by jonnin:

You can kill them with a bow from a karve before they can sink it. Be very careful not to shoot your own ship. Find 10 wood on a shore and you can repair it after if you got hit at all. With practice and sailing with the wind, they rarely get a hit.

I disagree about the longship. Its useful, but the karve is much more nimble. I use both, depending on what I am doing, but the karve more often, the LS only for hauling more stuff in deep water. Most of my exploring the karve gets into rivers or closer to shore and handles shallows better.

Actually the Karve only appears to be more nimble. Its only advantage over the Longship is that it turns faster. (You can nullify this advantage by lowering the Longship's sail when you start a 90 degree or sharper turn and then raising the sail again as soon as you catch the wind on the other side.) The Longship also sails much faster than the Karve especially in light winds.

Tacking with the Longship is always faster than paddling the Longship. The Raft is faster tacking than paddling it if the wind is faster than speed 1. Tacking with the Karve is only faster than paddling with the Karve when the wind is higher than speed 3. At speed 3 its all most identical to paddling speed.

The raft's sailing speed is about 1/2 the speed of the Longship. The Karve is only .02 m/s slower than the Longship when paddling but with any wind speed at all the Longship sails at .8 m/s faster than the Karve at half sail and over 2.4 m/s faster than the Karve at full wind and full sail.