So... this is a very odd story I had to share. I decided to try to hunt skeleton ships for the captain skeleton skull. Needed one more to get the bonecrusher wheel. I spotted on and started heading to it. It was in a storm too, which is great news... or so I thought. Not until they started shooting nonstop sleeping balls and forced me not to repair or bail. I was solo on a sloop, and she went down. I also remembered I had my rowboat and saw the skeleton galleon was half way sunk.
I followed closely behind through the storm, almost lost the rowboat, and waiting for the rain to sink her... it didn't. She left the storm and I try bailing water into her. It is not working for me since I kept getting shot, had no food, and didn't want to die. I was sure I would lose... until I saw where she was heading. Hidden Spring Keep.
It was a gift from God that she headed that way. I raced in front of her, dodging the sniper. If it got me it would have been game over. I raced as fast as I could row, grabbed food and a single explosive. I then raced in front of her, and dropped the barrel in her path, rowing away. I then waited anxiously. Very slowly she crawled. Then she touched it with the kraken figurehead's jaw. BOOM, and 5 seconds later, she went under. She didn't have the skull though, but either way it was worth it. Rowed to Sanctuary Outpost and sold it.
Now I got bragging rights that I sunk a skeleton ship, solo, with a rowboat and minimal supplies.