You have 4 Carracks to choose from:

• Volante being the speediest
  
• Valor being the fast reload one
  
• Advance being the mammoth who can carry all
  
• Balanced being a mistake

This is always gonna be a controversy . . . but, you should always think about what you want your Carrack for (bartering, Sea Monster Hunting<SMH> or idk).

• Just pick Volante (you can barter with it, you can SMH), you can get from point A to point B the fastest(except ofc if you have the P2W Panokseon where it's faster than Volante IF you purchase 10 more slots for it and that means $50 plus you need 4.0 SPD Innocents, blue gear<like every other carrack except Advanced>, 2k mastery)
  
  
• If you wanna do bartering and ONLY bartering then pick Advance.

• Valor because it can get to 9s reload cooldown and 8s with Guru mastery level
  
• Advance since it can carry the most good for bartering and you should build this first then Valor.

• Balanced Carrack (seriously, just not build this, it doesn't excel at ANYTHING..... only build it if you want it for your 4 ship collection or 5 with Panokseon and forget that it ever existed).

If you have only 10 slots (which probably a lot of you do since it's the "f2p" way then you have to choose from Innocents(Speed-Endurance) or Realistic(Turn-Awareness) ones.

You should go for full 4.0 Speed Innocents (but this is gonna be a pain in the ass since there's so much RNG so maybe get a full squad of 3.7 ones)

(this is for speed only and where it says "4.0 Inno" left column is green gear the other is blue gear)

or forget the speed and just go for Realistics which should have an 8.0 or ~8.7 in Awareness and 2.0 in Endurance at max level (10).

There's a website[docs.google.com] for sailors (and ofc 4.0 Speed for innocents is not max 4.3 is but who in their world would go for 4.3 full innocents and stay maybe 10 years to make them).

You need 2 000 Mastery to have 20% stats added to your Carrack for more speed/turn/brake/accel (and this basically requires PEN Manos clothes, PEN Log, and full TET Manos accessories + a Corsair for your class) or 1.9k for 19% and so on ...

3% more speed ,5% turn, 100k rations and 600LT.... unless you have 50% coupon and it's on a 20% discount NOT worth it(and even if it is, think hard before buying it if you really want it or not) !!!

You can either farm crow coins through bartering every single day and collect 420.000 crow coins and buy all the materials (ofc you need 4 islands near Ilya Island - Al-Naha, Racid, Tinberra and Lerao for the dust and the blueprints for blue gear) OR you can farm crocodiles and barter every day for 200.000 crow coins (since you need 50.000/item x4) and combine the drops from the crocodiles with the Starlight Emulsifier and Starlight Hardener (which you can buy these 2 from the NPC in Oquilla's Eye or Lema Island with crow coin - 25k for Emulsifier and 25k for Hardener)