I am a fan of the boats in Valheim, but I still feel like they are lacking a few things which would make them perfect. So here's some ideas for all boats:
– The ability to row faster when holding down the sprint button. This would slowly consume stamina, but provides a slightly faster speed. (Stamina regenerates at the normal rate when not fast rowing)
– More spots on the boats for players to row, so they don't just sit there and do nothing. The person at the rudder still has control over the direction of the boat, as well as the sails. The max amount of people being able to get involved also increases with the size of the boat(for example, on a raft you would have 2 spots, on the karve 3 spots and on the longship 4 spots).
– Being able to tie ships to a built dock, preventing them from randomly floating out to sea.
– Anchors.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/zvkis0/more_features_to_boats/