How to grind Sail Handling Skill

Sail Handling is a easy skill to grind, up to a point. In fact you shouldn't worry about it but if you do, here is what you should know.

Skills Required 

• Sail Handling

Recommended Jobs 

• Adventure Learner
• Cartographer
• Ocean Explorer
• Fisher 
• Salvager 
• Helmsperson
• Shipwright
• Bounty Hunter

Grinding How to

You don't get proficiency while archored. You need to be moving so the "Auto Sailing!!" message shows up (Just above the compass).

So what you need to do is sail. Good news is:

• It doesn't matter if you are on full speed or slow speed.
• It doesn't matter if you make turns or not.
• You can do it fully afk (Away from the keyboard).

Step 1: Choose a slow ship, like a clermont (No coal).
Step 2: Rip its sails. You can do that by fighting any random npc and letting him bombard you.
Step 3: Choose a safe zone to sail.
Step 4: Grab lots of food. Minimize your crew and/or use frugality and other similar ship skills.
Step 5: Set sail with minimum amount of sail (Lower right hand corner), so you are slower as possible OR choose to auto sail somewhere distant.

Advice 1: You need to be in one of the recommended jobs above for your grind to be faster.
Advice 2: Sail on sea region that you charted so you get random bonus like fatigue reduction, vigour refill  etc every 50 days or so.
Advice 3: Set one of your aides to the storekeeper duty and the other one to the surgeon duty. This allows you to be 100% afk.

How long should I be afk?

You also shouldn't overstay on the seas as the fatigue increases faster the more days at sea you are.

150 days at sea should be max but 100 days is a fair time to go back to port and restock on food and reset the days at sea number.

If you are on auto sail you do not need to fear as the game will automatically port you when you arrive at destination.

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