Lighthouse is bugged. If ship moves there , piece of lighthouse stays in the water blocking movement too. So complete poof is better.
Lighthouse was buggy from day one... and it also has to be placed on a house YOU own... so while you may have multiple accounts you have to put a lighthouse on the house that is the account owner of the boat and house... which often for me is a NO... I'd have to have like a dozen lighthouses.... that's a no. And then you have to link it to the lighthouse... buggy as well.
Can't use it on a house you are coowned to... etc... kinda a pain if you ask me... and then half the time it works half the time it doesn't... so...
1. Do not use a big brit ship for doing your fishing... (this is a silly thing to do anyway as the TOKUNO ship gives you a BONUS to fishing FYI)...
2. Always remove your ship from the sea... don't park or leave it ... ever. I follow this pretty strictly... Don't lose ships that way.
3. Don't park or leave your ship near a dock, don't block things with your boat... first, most docks have a timer... and if you leave it there the game auto moves your ship out to sea... pain... second, another player can page a GM and say your boat is blocking stuff... and the GM then might move or remove your boat...
4. Orc Ships are the fastest... FYI ...
While some ships do more damage... I find the Orc ship is probably the best all-around ship... especially if you are doing things like the pirates or beacons. Just gonna say... while the brit ship can carry more than the others and has loads of guns (it's ok for if you are taking big groups to do Corgul or summoning up the
Charybdis or something... with a bunch of people)... normally you aren't going to be manning all those guns anyway... I personally park 2 tamers on the bow of my orc ship, with a couple of magic Mastery pets(typically unicorns) who will sometimes teleport onto the pirate ships killing at will... it's kinda fun... and they man the cannon between the 2 of them... while my archer steers the boat... yes I run 3 accounts at a time... and it can be kinda crazy but it seems to work... if I'm feeling lazy I just use 1 tamer and the Archer... which pretty much takes care of all the stuff I might run across. On rare occasions, I've had the pets teleport onto a beacon but that is rare.