Thanks for the feedback!
I am deff planning on buffing most of my early weapons (also including the defaults) and most of the yellow items (I find myself mostly picking weapons meaning they aren't as useful as they should be!). I'm going to try increasing projectile speeds on manually aimed things like the broadsides as well to make the timing less restrictive. The fighters weapon IS garbage as I had nerfed the ship heavily before adding in ship on ship collision (now it needs a massive buff).
As for controls, do you think it largely comes down to how restrictive turn radius is? Or the boat control concept in general? I want to do another pass on it as it seems to be the love/hate area for a lot of people.