I know there are a few other posts about this, but none of them seem to match my issue. I was sailing home after scouting some treasure and deciding I wouldn't be able to get it. I was on my sloop, with just me and my lion.
Some basics:
The ship had been anchored for at least 12 hours of real time when I started sailing, giving it plenty of time to be at full health.
I had been sailing for maybe five minutes when the sink occurred.
My ship was well below its weight limit.
With only two "crew" aboard - me and my lion - it was also below the crew limit, thus not over-encumbered in any way.
I received NO indication that my ship was taking on water, or damaged, or sinking.
There were no enemy ships in sight, no Damned, not even any player vessels.
I was sitting there checking my other treasure maps, when the ship just fell to pieces around me, stranding me in the middle of the ocean, miles from any island. In a desperate bid to save my level 42 lion, I tried swimming to the shore anyway, but ended up running out of water and getting attacked by a shark. Sob story aside, there is no conceivable reason why my ship sank, so I'm a little bit peeved. Other bugs I can handle - not being able to turn or walk after respawning? Sure. Die again and it's fixed. Get trapped on a boat sail, unable to stop manning it, but also unable to interact with it? Log out and back in, problem solved. But these boat glitches are destroying huge amounts of property that took a lot of work to obtain.
