keep selling silver at the start with the town that pays the most for silver thats near the town you start in buy the silver from your town and keep doing this untill you have about 15,ooo it goes by fast DONT BUY A VESSEL keep the one that you already have and work with that and once you have 15,000 you can buy the vanguard the last and BEST ship and keep doing this for money its fast and one of the best ways to make money while going from the town you start in and the other town you can buy extra stuff to sell and only do it if you can make money on it and keep an eye on the amount of stuff you can have and buy nas much silver as you can then use the money on the other stuff keep this comment alive so every one can know the great wonders of this game