r/2007scape • u/JagexLight Mod Light • May 11 '26

News Sailing Buffs & Changes

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/sailing-update-buffs-changes--more?oldschool=1&_gl=1

Hey all, let us know what you think about our latest blog post!

We'll be live on Twitch later today with Mod Kieren, Husky and Ash to answer your questions.

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u/chol3ric May 11 '26

Hello, i love the changes proposed. One thing i'm kind of missing, and my fellow trawling addicts will probably agree, it would be really nice to have a more modular way of adjusting boat speed. As it stands some spots that move at the perfect speed for camphor hull at base speed, redwood will be too slow when on the 'slow' speed but too fast on the 'fast' speed. (this is just an example, its been a while since i trawled but there's definitely comparable instances.)

This creates a situation for where lower level trawling, upgrading is not actually an upgrade but rather a downgrade. I was wondering if it is possible at all to fix this, with maybe a speed slider instead of the 4 options, which are basically 'reverse', 'stop' 'slow' and 'fast' (And using wind also affects all of this differently!)

It somewhat of a big gripe of me especially when it comes to trawling, though it's probably less impactful at other sailing content.

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u/Reasonable_Mood_7918 May 11 '26

That massive diagonal on the marlin's route was so comfy with camphor sails. But you need redwood to keep up on the long vertical.

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u/virodoran May 11 '26

I've been debating whether to "upgrade" to rosewood for precisely this reason.

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u/Ocarious May 11 '26

As someone who has finished trawling (probably trawled about 100k total fish) this really isnt an issue imo. Never bothered me once

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u/sidek021 May 11 '26

Also finished trawling and it would have been nice to keep pace rather than blow by with a redwood boat at times. 

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u/Ocarious May 11 '26

Just click the button to slow down

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u/sidek021 May 11 '26

Obviously I did. Then clicked it again to speed up. 

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u/Ocarious May 11 '26

Wow! Looks like the boats work just fine with 2 speeds big dawg 👌