Rowing Skill Grinding Guide

Why grind Rowing?

It increases your ship's speed. In other words this skill enhances one of the most important in game "traits".

Refining Effect

When refined it gives the "well coordinated rowing" passive (Auto Effect) skill. It increases rowing ship's TOP speed and acceleration and significantly increases turning speed.

Skills Required 

• Rowing
• Steering (Not mandatory but recommended)
• Survival (Not mandatory but recommended)

Recommended Jobs

The best jobs will have rowing and Steering as favored. Yes steering is good to grind together with rowing.

• Brigand
• Privateer
• Filibuster

Helpful Consumables

• Food, lots of food! Give preference to those that are good at lowering fatigue like Bagels and Tuna Olive Steak.
• Proficiency boosters if you can afford them.
• Skill notes (UWC) and empress card can help but are cost (or time) expensive.
• Veil items prevent disasters but are also expensive (More on disaster prevention below).

Grinding Procedure

You need to have your rowing skill active. It gives you proficiency points even in battles.

Method 1

Choose a safe water sea and lower your sails (minimum sail).

Minimum sail

Max sail and speed

Make sure to watch your toon from time to time and use vigour food to lower your fatigue and sail back (So you don't leave safe waters).

Note 1: You need to be moving.
Note 2: You cannot follow someone else.
Note 3: Fatigue increases faster depending on the number of days you are at sea. Avoid being more than 3 hours on the sea.

Method 2

You can auto sail (Need tow permits bought at any port guide) but you cannot lower sails. It means you will sail on full speed. Remember to activate your rowing skill.

Note: If you are colored (Red, orange...) players may still attack you on safe waters. Be careful.

Grinding Basics

Most people like to grind rowing while AFK (Away from the keyboard). So here's what you should watch for:

• Use the slowest ROW ship you can.
• Damage your sail and rudder to slow down your ship.
• Have caution skill on or high lookout ship skill (may add as original to any ship).
• Lower your crew to the minimum. 5 is ok to prevent shipwrecking.
• Have a high fatigue relief figurehead equipped on your flagship.
• Have plenty of vigour food and use it to control fatigue.
• Chart the seas you intend to grind on as it gives random vigour increase and fatigue reliefs.
• Put an aide in storagekeeper and the other one in surgeon job. This can treat most disasters even while you are a AFK.
• Have rescue skill or bring lifesavers (Consumable) with you.
• Have at least 5m ducats on you (so your sailors and crew don't lose trust on you).
• Put your mock battles off as other players may interrupt your grind even on safe waters.
• Have full cargo supplies (Food + Water).

Advanced Rowing Grinding

Lots of people consider rowing the worst, hardest grind of all skills. I used to as well, until I figured out how to have a smooth grinding experience.

Don't get me wrong, the above tips are good advice but not the best. But knowing what I know now, I can tell you that grinding rowing is much easier than shipbuilding.

I teach my best rowing grinding techniques (that most PRO's don't know about) in my post at patreon. So why not join?