Stuck at Gold Rock City.. need help please

[Grasshopper]

I just got the game, and I am new to sailing. I picked up cargo from Neverdin, and made it to gold Rock City in 1 day. I pick up cargo to deliver back to Neverdin, but I cant leave Gold rock City. It seems the wind is pushing against me, and my boat just sits there. I have been trying for so long to leave, I am about to run out of water and food. What is the trick to getting free from this island?

[NapoleoninRags]

I'm new to the game but not to sailing or sailing simulators, The prevailing winds are from the southeast, so trying to sail back to Neverdin is going directly against the wind, impossible without extreme tacking.. I've also found out that even though the 2 islands to the south of Gold Rock are closer than Neverdin and about the same size as Neverdin, I can't gain visibility on them by sailing south/southwest an entire day. The map you start with doesnt have longitude and lattitude, so buying the sextant at Gold Rock like in the guides without also buying a map was useless.

So we are both stuck, sorry to say. Between not having the right tools to navigate and some of the control scheme choices ( I lost a ship while undocking it) I'm 1 or 2 restarts away from setting this aside. for awhile.

[Odoty]

Originalmente postado por Grasshopper:

I just got the game, and I am new to sailing. I picked up cargo from Neverdin, and made it to gold Rock City in 1 day. I pick up cargo to deliver back to Neverdin, but I cant leave Gold rock City. It seems the wind is pushing against me, and my boat just sits there. I have been trying for so long to leave, I am about to run out of water and food. What is the trick to getting free from this island?

Make sure the sail is up, then stand on the dock at the front of your boat and push the hull out at the front. if you turn the wheel a bit first, it will keep turning away as you hop in, then get the sail out and pull it in and off you go

Originalmente postado por NapoleoninRags:

I'm new to the game but not to sailing or sailing simulators, The prevailing winds are from the southeast, so trying to sail back to Neverdin is going directly against the wind, impossible without extreme tacking.. I've also found out that even though the 2 islands to the south of Gold Rock are closer than Neverdin and about the same size as Neverdin, I can't gain visibility on them by sailing south/southwest an entire day. The map you start with doesnt have longitude and lattitude, so buying the sextant at Gold Rock like in the guides without also buying a map was useless.

So we are both stuck, sorry to say. Between not having the right tools to navigate and some of the control scheme choices ( I lost a ship while undocking it) I'm 1 or 2 restarts away from setting this aside. for awhile.

Navigation tools are useless for local navigation like this, their level of accuracy is about as wide as the archipelagos themselves

Sailing south/south west an entire day without seeing anything is quite some achievement tbh. You've either gone clean past them in your sleep, or you aren't really moving

[Thundercracker]

Originalmente postado por Grasshopper:

I just got the game, and I am new to sailing. I picked up cargo from Neverdin, and made it to gold Rock City in 1 day. I pick up cargo to deliver back to Neverdin, but I cant leave Gold rock City. It seems the wind is pushing against me, and my boat just sits there. I have been trying for so long to leave, I am about to run out of water and food. What is the trick to getting free from this island?

important lesson:

before accepting new jobs, check the wind, and make sure your target destination is not upwind. at the most, you'll want the wind coming in on a perpendicular angle. at least until you get the hang of the various methods of fighting your way upwind.

the silver lining here is that you just started, so you only lose a bit of time by restarting.

oh, also, al' ankh is listed as the "easy" start, and it does indeed have the easiest boat to sail. the problem, however, is that it's perhaps the hardest region to sail in. yes, storms are rare, and wind changes are slow, but the latter actually becomes a problem, as you've just found out. as the first reply mentioned, the islands all sit low on the horizon, and it's easy to miss them if you're not close enough.

what i did was sail around in al' ankh till i got comfortable sailing, then i restarted my game, this time starting in emerald.

[Grasshopper]

Thanks everyone for the help. I will restart again, and rethink my choice of going to gold rock city until I get more experienced.

[westrud]

No amount of sailing experience will help you get away from the dock in Gold Rock, you need to push the boat away from the dock with the sail up as Odoty said, then let out your sail to gain enough speed to maneuver with the rudder. It isn't just the dock at Gold Rock that will give you problems you can face problems with the wind blowing you into the dock at any port and will have to learn how to deal with it by getting out and pushing the boat.

My opinion is that Gold Rock is a good place to head to at first because they have the best contracts, it's in the middle of the map, and easy to find. For navigating around the archipelago the compass and map are all you need for navigation, everything else is unnecessary until you set off for another archipelago.

[cyng]

Sometime you got to push with Sails down.

[Grasshopper]

I restarted in Emerald, and have been getting more used to working with the wind, and now I am starting to get the hang of sailing against the wind using a zigzag pattern. Is it possible to eventually cross regions and return to Al Ankh one day if I started in Emerald?

[ling.speed]

Yep everything is on the same map, difficulty is only start location and start ship, you can even buy the d-how you had in Ankh.

You can check the bazzar at Dragon cliffs (and few other places) they have a oceanic map.

Emeralds are quite stormy so take care!

[Odoty]

Originalmente postado por Grasshopper:

I restarted in Emerald, and have been getting more used to working with the wind, and now I am starting to get the hang of sailing against the wind using a zigzag pattern. Is it possible to eventually cross regions and return to Al Ankh one day if I started in Emerald?

That is actually easier than starting in Al'Ankh and sailing to Emerald, so maybe you have done yourself a bit of a favour