Does Tacking skill work?

[Steely Jim]

I wouldn't necessarily expect the ship to actually turn faster, just require less distance to make the turn.

It would be a little difficult to check without a proper distance measurement tool; but instead of turning faster, you should find that you've traveled a shorter distance from the starting point of the turn.

EDIT: Just to give a little different example, think of the ship turning 180-degrees as forming a capital "D." The curved segment is the ship turning, and the straight segment is the distance between where the turn started and where it ended. So, if someone with no Tacking makes that turn in 100-meters, then with Rank 3 Tacking I'm making that same turn and ending up 91-meters from where I started making the turn.