[busyrobot]

Just two thoughts:

'leave' should drop you on the dock if you are docked, and into the water (if ropes are down) when in shallow water.

You cannot explore any interesting lands if you have to scout for a dock to get off, or end up transported a million miles back to were you left from (or farther, if the last restart place was not a dock because you boarded a ship by getting run over when swimming).

Second thought: When a ship is sunk, have a 'Username sunk Ship ShipName' get posted like when 'so and so was hit and lost spell' pops up all the time.

If it's a kingdom ship, then it could say' 'Username sunk KingdomName Ship ShipName'

That would help stop all the ship-bashers from getting away so easily.