Does Tacking skill work?

[francesca]

Anybody notice a difference with this skill?

In other pirate ship games, the usual strategy was to shoot with the cannons on one side of the boat then swivel the boat around to shoot with the other side. But in this game, by the time you turn to the other side, the first side has just finished reloading so there is no point (of course this may be for the best since any cannoneers on board would get very dizzy).

So, does anybody notice with tacking that they can turn fast enough to fire both sides of the ship before the first side has finished reloading?