Ship Modification : Sails

[Blessed]

I have played around with modifying the hull of my ships, mostly adding warehouses, adding a maintenance room etc. I never understood clearly which sails helps with what, I am not familiar with the words in the description. Can someone help to explain which sail does what and what is considered a good sail setup?

[Antiga]

While all ships have use of sails in a combat situation, only the flag ship has use of them outside of combat, as the flagship decides the speed of the fleet.
So with that in mind, I personally prefer to have no fore or aft sails on my support ships, and only fore and aft sails on my flag ship. The rare ones of course, when possible.
The information given in the modify screen is only partially there. To see the full effect of each sail you will need to check the fleet screen.
Generally, the parts that are the same rarity and change the same stat, but less of it, will have a steering bonus, or visa versa. (Steering malus on high stat parts)
Different ports offer different sails, but choices are still pretty limited. I believe you need to get some blueprints to unlock rare sails for the main masts.

[Fabulous Nathan]

square helps with sailing with the wind and luff helps with sailing into the wind .

honestly once you get clippers it doesn't matter but i still max out square sails on them .

interestingly enough , the large fu chuan is a great ship for cargo so i usually have lead as clipper and 4 large fu chuan as mules .

[Antiga]

Originally posted by Torpon:

square helps with sailing with the wind and luff helps with sailing into the wind .

honestly once you get clippers it doesn't matter but i still max out square sails on them .

interestingly enough , the large fu chuan is a great ship for cargo so i usually have lead as clipper and 4 large fu chuan as mules .

In that setup I'd recommend trying to get rare large fu*chuans as mules, as the max of 26 cargo goes to 40 with those.

[Fabulous Nathan]

yes they are rare fus