Thank you. Having made travel from a city to a ferry via portal is a major
step in the right direction!

Please take it one step further so my decision to start playing every day
for 4-6 hours again is more probable. I recommend desting actual ferries you
ride on and making the travel to other ferry docks instant like the portals. I
feel since we can 'warp' with portals and navs/wanderers, we should be able to
'warp' with ferries. Ok...were I a wiz, what I would do is make every ferry
ride as long as that one in the area where you get on a ship and type sail and
the captain sails you to the other side or whatever: sailing, sailing,
sailing, boom there. I'd get rid of the code that tracks you ship across the
ocean as if you were really moving. Thus, ferry rides would all take about 15
seconds. Keep the transfers if you must (but I wouldn't).