Boats Guide
How boats work in Sail Your Boat — capacity, speed, upgrades, and the Prestige Boat reset.
How Boats Earn Cash
Your boat converts loaded fuel into cash based on fuel quality, quantity, and sail performance. Better machines produce higher-value fuel; better boats carry more of it farther and faster.
Update 1 (May 2026) added new boats and a new fuel pool — larger vessels raise capacity and reduce wait time between payouts.
Starting Vessel: Log Raft
You begin with a Log Raft — limited fuel capacity and modest sail speed. Treat it as a temporary workhorse while you unlock Auto Pump and Combine.
Do not over-invest in raft cosmetics. Put cash into machines that raise fuel value per voyage.
- Fill the raft whenever bottles are ready.
- Sail during code boosts for higher cash per trip.
- Unlock the next boat tier when capacity becomes the bottleneck.
Boat Upgrades That Matter
- Fuel capacity — more fuel per launch means fewer trips for the same income.
- Sail speed — pairs extremely well with likes1k (2× Sail Speed) and the ×2 Boat Speed gamepass.
- Boat level / XP — feeding fuel XP (boosted by update1) advances boat progress between sails.
Prestige Boat
The Prestige Boat is not a normal upgrade — buying it resets your plot, machines, expansions, and cash in exchange for permanent multipliers.
Use it when mid-tier machines stall and you have expanded the plot 2–3 times. See the Prestige guide for full timing advice.