Was just messing around with this during the 180 zone shift on the rat and I found out some interesting things:
If you go to ratchet the boat spawns and despawns on 1 second intervals in front of you
If you use the Lag7 Strategic Lagtool http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...c-lagtool.html (Lag7 Strategic Lagtool) you can lag just enough to stay on the boat while it sails away. (about 8-10 seconds)
After I did that what happened for me was my character dc'd multiple times upon logging in (could't load in game, bar refreshed easily 3 times before dc'ing). Recieved one "character already has that name" error, and then when I finally got in i was unterwater, underground in Dustwallow. When i tried to screenshot this my character was teleported to the nearest graveyard.
Really, I'm too lazy to run all the way back on a mouse to ratchet to try again, but I hope this inspires someone into trying something similar because I feel the character has name error might lead to something.