I was playing today with iron man mode (for the first time), saling with HMS surprise from jamaica to hispaniola (looking to fight some french ships),
it was really fun i had a few(2) encounters with floating shipwrecks / desmasted ship i think it said the notification, a slop, and nothing else, it was fun tho,
having to be in alert mode in case of bigger ships, (i noticed how fast you get dismasted in this game (i like it tho), in aop/etc it takes ages, so it feels more dangerous having an encounter now) I had more fun in this time that in hours of other naval games.