Introduction

In this guide is designed for players looking to further invest in the Sailing lifeskill or are going for the Carrack. We will be covering sailing gear to use, sailing mastery, sea monster hunting, and a walkthrough of the sailing dailes (required to build a Carrack ship). If you are completely new to sailing in Black Desert then I recommend checking the guides below first:

• Advanced Ship Guide
• Bartering Guide
• Margoria Patch Guide
• Great Ocean Expansion Patch Guide

If you haven’t already, I also highly recommend joining the Sailing Discord for lots of great resources and to find groups for the sailing dailies or crocodile hunting.

The Sailing Life Skill allows you to use more ship skills the higher your level is and this can increase the efficiency of other life skills, such as bartering, and trading to Port Ratt, or can make it easier and faster to kill sea monsters.
You can easily achieve skilled 1 in sailing and unlock the Breezy Sail skill, by completing the questline [The Great Expedition] Oquilla’s Eye. You can get this quest from your Black Spirit under the Suggestions tab and it can be done on all characters.

Sailing Skill	Skill Name	What it does	How to use it
Beginner 1	Ram	Travels forwards for 5 seconds and rams into targets to damage them. Stops the ship for 2 seconds afterwards.	Q
Apprentice 1	Power Accel.	Use whilst the ship is standing still to quickly accelerate for 8 seconds then return to the ships maximum speed.	SPACE + W
Skilled 1	Breezy Sail	Accelerate the ship for 10 seconds then returns the ship to it’s maximum speed.	SHIFT + W
Professional 1	Swift Retreat	Quickly reverse the ship	S
Artisan 1	Abrupt Turn	Quickly turn on the spot	S+ A/D
Master 1	Smooth Turn	Quickly turn whilst moving	A/D
Guru 1	Bullseye	Shortens cannon reloading time	Passive

Sailing Mastery

Higher Sailing Mastery will increase your ship’s stats (acceleration, speed, turn, break).

If you have 1500 points for example, you will have a 15% increase to all your ship’s stats (acceleration, speed, turn, break).

Increasing your Sailing Mastery can be useful if you need to reach high enough accel and break stat for the Ebenruth’s Nol on your Carrack. Otherwise sailing mastery is simply a quality of life improvement and not something I would heavily invest in. To reach high sailing mastery you would need to spend a lot of silver on the gear required, however if you have accessories from other life skills then you should use them for the ship stat increases.

Sailing Mastery Points	Ship stat increase	Sailing Mastery Points	Ship stat increase	Sailing Mastery Points	Ship stat increase	Sailing Mastery Points	Ship stat increase
0	0%	550	5.5%	1100	11%	1650	16.5%
50	0.5%	600	6%	1150	11.5%	1700	17%
100	1%	650	6.5%	1200	12%	1750	17.5%
150	1.5%	700	7%	1250	12.5%	1800	18%
200	2%	750	7.5%	1300	13%	1850	18.5%
250	2.5%	800	8%	1350	13.5%	1900	19%
300	3%	850	8.5%	1400	14%	1950	19.5%
350	3.5%	900	9%	1450	14.5%	2000	20%
400	4%	950	9.5%	1500	15%
450	4.5%	1000	10%	1550	15.5%
500	5%	1050	10.5%	1600	16%

Sea Monster Hunting

Sea Monsters spawn in certain areas in the Margoria ocean and the Young/Hungry versions can also be found in the Epheria and Velia seas. Young and Hungry sea monsters are easier to kill but give less loot than the harder versions. You can check our Interactive Map for all sea monster locations.

Hekaru
	Possible drops: [Guild] Amethyst Hekaru Spike x 1 (drop chance: 1.5%) [Guild] Hekaru’s Process x 5 – 15 (drop chance: 300%) [Guild] Sea Monster’s Neidan x 13 – 50 (drop chance: 300%) Pure Pearl Crystal Bright Reef Piece Enhanced Island Tree Coated Plywood Luminous Cobalt Ingot Great Ocean Dark Iron Knowledge can be obtained from Sihuram (requires 300 amity)
Ocean Stalker
	Possible drops: [Guild] Ocean Stalker Whisker x 1 (drop chance: 1.5%) [Guild] Ocean Stalker’s Skin x 15 – 25 (drop chance: 300%) [Guild] Sea Monster’s Neidan x 13 – 50 (drop chance: 300%) Pure Pearl Crystal Bright Reef Piece Enhanced Island Tree Coated Plywood Luminous Cobalt Ingot Great Ocean Dark Iron Knowledge can be obtained from Bindo (requires 100 amity)
Candidum
	Possible drops: [Guild] Steel Candidum Shell x 1 (drop chance: 8%) [Guild] Candidum Shell x 1 – 3 (drop chance: 300%) [Guild] Sea Monster’s Neidan x 100 – 150 (drop chance: 300%) Brilliant Rock Salt Ingot Brilliant Pearl Shard Knowledge can be obtained from Gintabam (requires 400 amity)
Black Rust
	Possible drops: [Guild] Black Rust Tongue x 1 (drop chance: 8%) [Guild] Black Rust Jawbone x 12 – 20 (drop chance: 300%) [Guild] Sea Monster’s Neidan x 100 – 150 (drop chance: 300%) Brilliant Rock Salt Ingot Knowledge can be obtained from Siyunchae (requires 500 amity)
Nineshark
	Possible drops: [Guild] Nineshark’s Fin x 1 (drop chance: 8%) [Guild] Nineshark’s Horn Fragment x 10 – 20 (drop chance: 300%) [Guild] Sea Monster’s Neidan x 100 – 150 (drop chance: 300%) Brilliant Pearl Shard Knowledge can be obtained from Moran (requires 200 amity)
Goldmont Small Battleship
	Possible drops: [Guild] Goldmont Pirate Golden Goblet x 1 (drop chance: 1%) [Guild] Goldmont Pirate Golden Coin x 13 – 50 (drop chance: 300%) Knowledge can be obtained from Sihuram (requires 500 amity)
Goldmont Medium Battleship
	Possible drops: [Guild] Goldmont Pirate Golden Goblet x 1 (drop chance: 3%) [Guild] Goldmont Pirate Golden Coin x 35 – 70 (drop chance: 300%) Knowledge can be obtained from Haeran (requires 250 amity)
Goldmont Large Battleship
	Possible drops: [Guild] Goldmont Pirate Golden Goblet x 1 (drop chance: 5%) [Guild] Goldmont Pirate Golden Coin x 100 – 150 (drop chance: 300%) Knowledge can be obtained from Moran (requires 800 amity)

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In addition to the sea monsters above, there are also Saltwater Crocodiles which spawn east of Port Ratt. These sea monsters are much harder and I recommend finding a person to group with if possible. Up to two players can get loot from the Crocodiles. You many need to repair quite often, but is possible to solo them with +10 green Carrack gear.

The Saltwater Crocodiles drop items such as:

• Sea Monster’s Neidan
• Violent Sea Monster’s Bone – required to craft Delicately Polished Support  (Carrack blue gear material)
• Saltwater Crododile’s Scale – required to craft Violent Wave Plywood (Carrack blue gear material)
• Torn Treasure Map Piece – required to craft Treasure Map of a Sailor (to obtain rewards and chance of obtaining items for Ebenruth’s Nol)

When grinding Saltwater Crocodiles for blue gear materials I recommend using as many drop rate buffs as possible. You can use Kama Blessing, Advanced Loot scroll and your Agris Fever to get as many of the Scales as possilbe for your time spent. Agris Fever works on all Sea monsters.

Click to enlarge the image below. Credit goes to Geniewiz#0001 from the Sailing Discord for making this Crocodile spawn map. You can also check out his Google Sheet for tracking crocodile loot.

Sailing Dailies

We will be starting the sailing dailies at Port Epheria or Velia and following the speed run guide made by Just_Sheen from the Sailing Discord. This is the most optimal route I’ve found and I recommend join the Sailing Discord for other great resources like this. You can also find groups in the Sailing Discord to complete your sailing dailies faster.

You can leave an alt at Port Epheria to pick up the quest at the start and then go back on your sailing character at the end to hand it in. There is only one quest at Epheria and it only gives sailing EXP and Origin of Wind x1 so you can skip this quest if you want to.

The quest can be picked up from Dius and there are three different quests from him. The quest you get is RNG and changes each day but each gives the same reward.






















Quest Name	How to complete	Reward
A Treasure Swimming in the Ocean	Kill Hekaru or Kill Ocean Stalker	Sailing EXP Orgin of Wind x1
Outlawas of the Ocean	Kill Goldmont Large Battleship
Stay Sharp!	Kill Goldmont Small Battleship

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Next, pick up all 5 quests in Velia. There is a quest you can pick up from Croix, who is the Wharf Manager located on the Velia Docks. Just like with Dius, there are three different quests from him. The quest you get is RNG and changes each day but each gives the same reward.

Quest Name	How to complete	Reward
Wanted: Hekaru / Ocean Stalker	Kill Hekaru or Kill Ocean Stalker	Sailing EXP Orgin of Wind x1
Looming Threats from the Ocean	Kill Goldmont Large Battleship
Ocean Predators	Kill Goldmont Small Battleship

Now head inside the Inn on the Velia Docks and find Miya and Proix. Miya has 3 quests you can choose from and then another you can pick up. I recommend choosing the Baremi Island quest if possible so you can complete it on the way to Oquilla’s Eye, since the other two are more out of the way.

	Quest Name	How to complete	Reward
Choose one of these quests	Delivering Goods: Baremi Island (recommended)	Deliver 1 barter item to Baremi Island	Sailing EXP
	Delivering Goods: Navro Island	Deliver 1 barter item to Navro Island
	Delivering Goods: Tinberra Island	Deliver 1 barter item to Tinberra Island
	[Daily] For a Wider Trade Route	Successfully barter 3 times	Sailing EXP

Next speak to Proix and pick up all the quests from him.

Quest Name	How to complete	Reward
Wanted: Hungry Sea Creatures	Kill Hungry Hekaru x3 and Ocean Stalker x3	Sailing EXP
Wanted: Cox Scouts in Disguise	Kill Cox Pirates on the Island x20	Sailing EXP
[Daily] How to Recover Sailors	Cook Chowder x3	Sailing EXP

Now that you’ve picked up all the quests from Velia, head towards Illiya Island. Make a stop at Arakil Island to kill the Cox Pirates there needed for the quest, then kill three of the Hungry Ocean Stalkers that spawns south of Illiya. Afterwards, head north towards Oquilla’s Eye. You can stop at Weita Island for more Cox Pirates and Baremi Island to complete the barter quest whilst you are on the way. South of Oquilla’s Eye are Hungry Hekaru sea monsters. Kill 3 of those to complete the 3:3 quest from Proix.

After arriving at Oquilla’s Eye, pick up the quests around the island.

The first quest to pick up is from Ravikel, the wharf manager. The quest is called “[Daily] Ravikel’s Test”. After picking up the quest, turn to your left and there is a Soldier next to the Guild Manager NPC who has 3 quests for you as well.

NPC	Quest Name	How to complete	Reward
Ravikel	[Daily] Ravikel’s Test	Successfully Barter 5 times	Sailing EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Choose between: Pure Pearl Crystal x2, Deep Sea Memory Filled Glue x8 Bright Reef Peice x8
Soldier	[Daily] Our Guild is not a Charity Group	Kill Young Sea Monster x2	Sailing EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Tide-Dyed Standardized Timber Square x3
	[Dialy] Do You Have What it Takes?	Kill Hekaru x1	Sailing EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Cox Pirates’ Artifact (Combat) x3
	[Daily] Win-win Situation	Kill Ocean Stalker x1	Sailing EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Deep Tide-Dyed Standardized Timber Square x3

Once you’ve collected the 4 quests on the shore, head to the north side of the island. There is an NPC called Bave Ricksa here who has a fishing quest called “[Daily] We are the Ownders of this Island!”. The quest requires you to catch and give him a Yellow Swordfish but only rewards you with Oquilla Coin x1 and no sailing EXP or other items so you can skip this quest if you don’t have much time.

Next, head back to the wharf manager and go up the wooden stairs next to him. Keep following the pathway heading south of the island until you reach Curio the otter merchant. He will have two quests for you to accept and complete.

Quest Name	How to complete	Reward
[Daily] Precious Coral Piece	Give Coral Piece x10 (these can be bought from the Central Market)	Oquilla Coin x1 Seaweed Stalk x4
[Daily] For the Young Otter Merchants	Give Iridescent Coral Piece x1 (must be gathered using underwater gathering – use this image to help)	Gathering EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Ruddy Manganese Nodule x2

Now that you have all the kill quests we can currently obtain, head north west of Oquilla’s Eye. There are Young and Adult Oceanstalkers which you can kill to complete the first kill quests. Then go east and kill the Hekaru needed for the other kill quests. Once you’ve completed all the quests, head back to Oquilla’s Eye to hand them in and pick up the follow on quests.

Ravikel will now have additional quests for you to pick up. There are 6 different quests and you can choose between the Young sea monster quests or the Adult sea monster quests. Completing the Adult versions of the quests will give you more/better rewards and can be solo’d with a +10 green gear Caravel but may take you a while to complete. I recommend finding a group if possible to speed things up.




	Quest Name	How to complete	Reward
Choose one of these quests	[Daily] Old Moon Guild’s Candidum Hunter	Kill Candidum x1	Sailing EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Moon Scale Plywood x10
	[Daily] Old Moon Guild’s Young Candidum Hunter	Kill Young Candidum x1	Sailing EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Moon Scale Plywood x5
Choose one of these quests	[Daily] Old Moon Guild’s Nineshark Hunter	Kill Nineshark x1	Sailing EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Moon Vein Flax Fabric x3
	[Daily] Old Moon Guild’s Young Nineshark Hunter	Kill Young Nineshark x1	Sailing EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Moon Vein Flax Fabric x1
Choose one of these quests	[Daily] Old Moon Guild’s Black Rust Hunter	Kill Black Rust x1	Sailing EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Tear of the Ocean x1
	[Daily] Old Moon Guild’s Young Black Rust Hunter	Kill Young Black Rust x1	Sailing EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Abyssal Gem x1

Now that you have the additional 3 quests you will need to go and kill the last 3 sea monsters and finish the rest of your dailies. These sea monsters spawn quite far into the great ocean so the fastest route is to use a Traveller’s Map from Oquilla’s Eye to send you to Port Ratt and then remote collect your ship. Make sure that your ship does not have any items in the inventory and that you remove your sailors beforehand.

From Port Ratt you can then make your way back to Oquilla’s Eye and kill the monsters required on the way. Using the route below you should be able to keep the tide and wind in your direction for most of the way.

When you arrive back at Oquilla’s Eye, hand in the quests and collect your rewards. You can now go and do the bartering quest you picked up earlier. After completing this quest there is a follow on quest from the Soldier in the screenshot below.

Quest Name	How to complete	Reward
[Daily] For the Serendian Soldiers	Successfully Barter 10 Times	Sailing EXP Oquilla Coin x1 Choose between: Enhanced Island Tree Coated Plywood x10 Cox Pirates’ Artifcat (Parley Expert) x1

You can now head back to Velia and Port Epheria to hand in the rest of the quests.

There are also two additional quests on Oquilla’s Eye that can be completed daily but both of these quests require you to hand over 150 Oquilla Coins. The two quests can be obtained from Herrad Romsen and you can choose one of them per day.

	Quest Name	How to complete	Reward
Choose one of these quests	[Daily] Small Repayment from the Old Moon Guild I	Hand over 150 Oquilla Coins	Sailing EXP Choose between: Seaweed Stalk x8 Ruddy Manganese Nodule x4 Pure Pearl Crystal x4 Deep Sea Memory Filled Glue x16 Bright Reef Piece x16 Enhanced Island Tree Coated Plywood x20 Cox Pirates’ Artifact (Parley Expert) x2
	[Daily] Small Repayment from the Old Moon Guild II	Hand over 150 Oquilla Coins	Sailing EXP Choose between: Tide-Dyed Standardized Timber Square x6 Cox Pirates’ Artifact (Combat) x6 Deep Tide-Dyed Standardized Timber Square x6 Moon Scale Plywood x20 Moon Vein Flax Fabric x6 Tear of the Ocean x2