The Sailing skill is finally out for Old School RuneScape (OSRS), so we’ve collected a variety of our best tips and tricks to help you take advantage of it!

There are many things to keep track of with this skill, after all. Things like how to use Salvaging, how to boost progression, even what plugins to use!

Fear not, though, as we’ll tell you about all of that and more in this guide.

Sailing Best Tips and Tricks | OSRS

Get the Sailing Plugin

This is a quick one, but one that we highly recommend if you’re playing via the RuneLite client: make sure to install the Sailing plugin.

You can do so by clicking on the wrench-shaped icon on the top right of your screen. Then, click on the plug-shaped icon and look for “Sailing”.Lastly, just click Install on it.

This plugin covers all of your Sailing needs, making it all a lot simpler and more efficient. It marks spots for Sea Charting, highlights Whirlpools for speed boosts, tells you when to trim your sails, and more!

All in all, this is a great quality-of-life plugin to have if you plan to spend a significant amount of time sailing.

While you’re at it, we also recommend setting up a Watchdog alert for the Crystal Extractor when you get it. It’ll let you know when it’s ready for harvesting, which is easy to ignore usually.

Upgrade Often

As we covered in our guide on how to build and customize your ship, you can actually upgrade your ship. Just select Customise Boat while talking to any Shipwright at a dock.

The most important thing to remember here is to upgrade your ship’s Core Parts as soon as you can. These define the main stats for your ship, including its Hit Points and Speed!

There are even some secret benefits, too. For example, upgrading your sails will also increase the amount of Sailing XP you get whenever you trim your sails. So, upgrading them early can help speed up leveling slightly.

That aside, you can also place a variety of useful Facilities on your boat. These give you a lot of extra functions, such as allowing you to place a Keg for boosts or a Salvaging Hook so that you can salvage shipwrecks.

To keep things short, just make sure to stay on top of upgrading your ship. It’ll help keep your progression and leveling smooth!

Make Use of Salvaging for AFK Training

Tying into the previous tip, you can start Salvaging as soon as you reach Level 15 Sailing and install a Salvaging Hook. It allows you to loot shipwrecks out at sea, which is the main AFK leveling method for Sailing.

The short of it is that you go to a shipwreck and stay at it collecting loot until your cargo fills up. Then, return to a dock and use a Salvaging Station to sort through the loot and reveal items. Rinse and repeat!

You can even automate this further later on by having crewmates with a high Deckhandiness stat. Plus, you can also get a Salvaging Station on your ship at Level 42 Sailing to eliminate the need for docks.

But well, that’s just the short of it! If you want all the details, check out our Salvaging AFK training guide.

Build a Whirlpool Surprise Keg

You can give yourself a +2 Sailing boost as soon as you reach Level 33 Sailing. By that point, you’ll have unlocked the “Tempor Tantrum” Barracuda Trial in The Storm Tempor.

The Barracuda Trials are, to summarize, a time trial. You’ll need to sail your ship around a set route to collect crates and other items. Doing so under the target time will give you some rewards and unlock the next rank.

For our purposes here, you’ll want to complete the first two ranks of the Tempor Tantrum trial. That is the Swordfish and Shark trials. We have a guide on the Barracuda Trials if you need help with that.

Upon beating the Shark rank, you’ll get 2 Whirlpool Surprise beers as a reward. More importantly, you’ll also unlock an infinite supply of Whirlpool Surprises back at the bar in The Pandemonium!

Go to that bar and purchase a total of 25 Whirlpool Surprises. Do not drink any, as you’ll need all 25 soon enough.

Then, go to customize your ship and build a Keg facility on it. Put all 25 Whirlpool Surprises into the Keg and you’re all done!

This will give you a +2 Sailing boost, although this can’t be used to boost all Sailing requirements. Still, it does help.

What’s more, it will give all of your crewmates a minimum of 2 Deckhandiness and 2 Helmsmanship. Not too shabby!

Learn How to Recover Your Boat

If you ever get separated from your boat, there are a few ways to retrieve it. The easiest and most readily accessible one is to just ask any Shipwright at a dock. Just select Recover Boat while talking to them!

For a gold fee, the Shipwright will have your boat teleported to the dock. This fee does increase if you have a bigger or more damaged boat, however.

Also worth noting is that this will delete all of the cargo in your ship’s cargo hold! Do not use this if you have valuable cargo and can go back to your ship through other means.

That aside, you can also use Boat Bottles or the Summon Boat spell. They do still delete your cargo, but they allow you to summon your boat to any docking point. No need for any Shipwright!

If you want to know all the details on these teleportation methods, check out our full guide about them.

Turn Round Trips into One-Way Trips

Speaking of teleportation, there’s a nice trick to speed up your leveling when doing Courier Tasks.

Certain Courier Tasks, such as the ones shown above, ask you to go to another port to retrieve cargo and bring it back.

That means, they are intended to be round trips. To compensate for that, these Courier Tasks also give you double the amount of experience. But you can reap that benefit while also removing the need for a round trip.

To do that, first make sure to empty your ship’s cargo hold. Then, teleport to the port where you need to retrieve the cargo and ask the Shipwright there to recover your cargo.

Just like that, you’re already at your destination and cut half of the travel time! Now just load up the cargo and return to the port you came from to complete the task in record time.

That’s our last tip here, so that’s the end of our best tips and tricks guide for Sailing in OSRS. We hope this helps you have a smoother sailing experience out here!

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