I was on an open galleon months ago and we stopped at shark tooth key or one of the small islands over there. As soon as we stopped I filled my normal roll with my regular crew and started to get the ship ready to leave.
I raised all the sails and went to raise the anchor and some kid started yelling that I was trying to take off with the ship. Apparently him yelling into the mic to brig me freaked out the other two guys and they voted me into the brig. I tried explaining that I wasn't leaving and that the ship won't move if the sails are up but his yelling to brig me left me unheard. Essentially I was punished for their ignorance. Eventually they listened and let me out.
Not long before this I had a similar experience. My crew anchored a mile away from barnacle cay. Even a shot from the cannons wouldn't get you on the island. I know, I tried. As they all fired off to kill the captains, I swam back, raised anchor turned the ship and started pulling it closer. I raised sails and was drifting to a stop as they killed one of the three captains and brought back the skull. As soon as they climbed aboard, one hit the anchor, even though we were almost stopped. I went to go raise it and one of them dropped the sails. Knowing we would hit the island if we took off, I let go of the anchor and started to raise sails to prevent this. As I got the second sail up I noticed I wasn't going to get up the third one before the three of them finish raising the anchor even though we had more captains to kill that they seemed to forget about. So I jump on the wheel turning it hoping we don't hit the island when we take off. We did though. Put numerous holes in the ship. Then I was brigged. I tried talking to them and give them pointers on how to sail and use the anchor correctly, but they didn't listen, they even taunted me by playing sad music in front if the brig.
Later on, one guy leaves, and the two remaining guys pull into a skull fort. They spend two hours doing this fort while having two other crewmates join and leave during it. Not once did another ship contest the fort. They left me in the brig refusing help from a legend that was trying to teach them how to use an anchor properly, and spent two hours on a fort they obviously needed help with because of it.
I imagine they had too much pride to admit they could have learned something from me and just left me in the brig because my method of sailing didn't match theirs. They blamed me for the ship getting holes in it when they shouldn't have even been on the ship dropping sails and raising the anchor anyway. They still had captains to kill and instead they messed up me trying to be a good helmsman.
