If playing with both Cargo Ships and this mod, ships piloted by the player are slowed down to a crawl. Seeing as these move on the water on their own naturally, the mod should really not slow them down.

If you don't want water to slow that down you can change the mod settings Swimming speed and Deep water swimming speed to 1.0.

I just released an update to Cargo Ships that makes Boats immune to the tile friction modifier. Cars and players will still be slowed down, but boats will travel just as fast as in vanilla.

A nice touch would be for Noxy to disable the water animations when the player is in a train or "indep-boat"-type car entity. Cargo Ships already produces its own wake effects.

I could probably do that, I'll add it to my todo list.

Alright it is done. If a character is in a vehicle no more ripples will be made.

I was thinking with some more specific code it would still make ripples for cars but not boats. But whatever works