Sailing Rep Points
 

How do you get sailing points? I have search for this on forums, but found nothing.

you need to steer when you're asea fighting ships. to get credit for the ships you sink, you need to hit the ship at least once with one of your broadside cannons. it's not very hard once you learn how to line it up.

Actually you don't have to hit the enemy ship with a broadside to get the points. If you have a crew working the deck cannons and they sink it and you just sit there at the helm you get the points towards your sail.

ah yes, that's right. to get skill for sailing you don't need to hit it. but i believe you need to hit it to get credit for sinking the ship. you'll get the cargo but nothing that goes towards quests.

Actually you do get credit for the quests if you only hit the ship. I just finished a quest where I needed to skink 12 Navy ships. I went out hitting a lot of ships and sunk a few. I was able to finish that quest rather quickly because others sunk the ships I hit. I think you get sailing points also.