My light sloop tops out at 10 knots.
Full sail boosts it to 12 knots for duration of the skill.

I do not have ramming speed yet to test it.

For that matter, my War frigate has the EXACT same specs.

Ok, previously we had believed the new quests were level dependant right to left.

Well yes level dependant, not right to left.

So far....

Jeremiah Dedman - Requires Level 20
Samuel Shaw - Requires Level 8
Capt. Rott - Requires Level 4
Nathan Gould - <unknown>
Bill Barrett - Requires Level 5 (maybe 4, but you get level 5 doing Rotts quest).

Level requirements of quest givers left to right: 20 - 8 - 4 - X - 5

Do not know Nathan Goulds level requirement yet.

I was in a regular sloop. With my regular galleon I was only able to hit a max of 9 knots. It may be possible that if you go straight for very long distances that it will gradually increase speed, I simply based my result of the arrow reaching the end of the speed bar and my knot indicator stopping.

Windcatcher could also play a role in this?

Updated Notoriety requirements for new quests:

Nice to know, thanks Zep.

My pirate has no windcatcher anything like that.

Shiptype - Top Speed / With FullSail

Light Sloop - 10/12
Galleon - 8/10

I'll check mine in a moment, I think I have 3-5 on windcatcher.

edit:

Pirate is level 15
Windcatcher is level 5

Shiptype - Top Speed / With Full Sail

Light Sloop - 12 / 14 / ?

edit2:

It looks like windcatcher is (noticeably) doing its job. Windcatcher when maxed increases ships speed by 20%.

20% is 1/5th of the regular speed, added to the original.

My light sloop was going 12 knots without any skills. Zep who has no points in windcatcher only managed 10 knots. 20% of 10 would be 2. Add the 2 to the 10, that gives me my current knots. While the Full Sail just adds an extra 20%, or an extra two points (can't really tell from one example).

So given that, I assume that windcatcher does play a role in what our max knots are.

If I only had the gold to test these since I have no windcatcher yet. hehe.

I think it would be best to try to nail down all the speeds of the base ships, without ANY skills that would change a ships performance (windcatcher, tackmaster, etc)

Other minor issues I have found/reported:

Barrel: No Shift Ring
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...2_18-01-52.jpg (FIXED)
Barrel: No Barrel
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...1_12-07-19.jpg

Missing rock texture:
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...0_20-10-15.jpg (Texture is there, but still pretty dark, even for a shaded side of the rock)

Claude D'Arcis the shadow assassin: (missing model texture)
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...2_16-18-46.jpg (Its there actually, just real real dark)

NPCs too dark:
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...2_17-53-42.jpg (FIXED)

Rocks you can walk through:
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...2_14-35-51.jpg (FIXED)
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...0_20-12-45.jpg (FIXED)
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...0_20-13-18.jpg
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...2_20-34-13.jpg (FIXED)

Anyone seen Neban the Silent? I haven't found him yet...

I haven't looked for him, i'm sure if he is there, someone else has seen him though :)

and nice screen shots Zep. I didn't think to take a screen shot of shift + F1... doh.. but I have the next best thing :D

No circle, but theres a dig spot.

Aye, saw him first night, hes somewhere still in Becketts Quarry :)

Added: Heres a map, look for the "N" at the bottom area for Neban.

I was inspired by those other maps! Any suggestions towards design, i'll consider, working on others too.

Becketts Quarry

Nice Map Zep...

Feel very free to rework the two I did. I didn't mark placement of barrels and crates on mine because well you generally can see them (unless they are the glitched now you see 'em now you don't variety). And according to some I missed a dig site or two.. but hey I got alot of the PR stuff mapped in the short time I had last week. (Was cramming in what I could before I had to get some sleep prior to my routine weekend long game disappearing act.)

The Mac version is working now, so if you were not able to log into test because of that you may do so.

Also, does anyone besides me plan to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6 on Friday and test for compatibility with POTC?

Nice work Zep! Love the map. I used it last night!