Needing a topQ snekkja and or knarr built in whatever realm has the highest or == marriage of the sea has been cancer ever since their inception. Not just because you need to have the boat, but because they functionally nullify your ability to teleport somewhere to PVP a lot of the time since you can't teleport with boats. Not that I'm sure I even want people to be able to teleport with snekkjas, since it'd probably make getting ganked by horses & snekkjas from thingwalls worse.
It's functionally impossible to fight ppl when they have boats and you don't. Also, with the new navel fighting system not only do you need to have a boat, you need as many or more. With Snekkjas being bashable, and way faster in rivers(where most fights happen) if one side has more snekkjas they can just force the other side out of their snekkjas and bash them.
I get that snekkjas and kanrrs being absurdly fast is good in non-combat situations because it means less time to travel along the retardedly big map that nobody wants to do slowly, but IMO they've such a big impact on combat that they should be nerfed into the ground...