@deliciouspack said in Sloop Speeds - How Fast Can the Sloop Sail - Check this out!:
So tacking DOES work. Good to know.
It always has. People posting here saying it doesn't haven't tried or don't know how to sail.
No galleon has ever caught me in this game the few weeks that I've been playing. Nor any sloop save one time, and that was my own fault for misjudging distance to shore around Old Faithful.
Whenever a galleon chases me, I simply open her up to full sail, maybe head for a rock or island, and let the galleon crew guess what I'm going to do. I mean, they're the ones that want what's in hold, not the other way around. And since I usually stop off at an outpost after every quest or few items, even if someone did catch me, then odds are they would get nothing.