Skills as perks

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by Anders

He can do his work in half the time (-5 to skill) and still be better at it.

But that then raises the question of whether that's actually realistic. Crewman on a four-master presumably includes knowing how to help raise the sails right; Crewman on an airship might involve (I guess, from a position of extreme ignorance) walking round the gasbags once a day checking for leaks. Those kinds of routine-but-necessary activities really are quite hard to do in double time.