I just bought City of Abandoned Ships. I installed the GOF (Gentlemen of Fortune 1.2) mod and selected Jack Audrey as my character and pirate as the nation.
After the brief on-ship fighting tutorial I arrive at a town. I want to set sail on my ship but for the life of me can't figure out to? I click LMB at the dock to teleport to my ship. But WASD do not set my sails as stated in the manual. Do I need to weigh anchor or exit via the world map? Any help is appreciated as presently my ship is stuck in the harbor.

Just to be sure. How long did you wait before deciding that wasd keys don't work. The sails don't get unfurled instantly, with just the small starting crew this can take approx half a minute or so.

Thanks for the reply. You were correct. I hired a few more crew and gave them some time to unfurl the sails and was able to sail a bit.
I have another weird problem. I can sail now, but can't turn left. When I press 'A' to turn left, for some reason the key press teleports me to town. I tried remapping the turn left key, but still get the same result (ie. teleport to town). Thanks

More details regarding the weird keyboard mapping problem. Anybody else have this issue? basically all (most) the keys for the game are incorrectly mapped.
Example: 'A' teleports to town instead of turn left. 'E' changes to first person view on ship instead of zooming in map, etc.

I tried remapping the keys and the erroneous function stays with the remap. So currently the game is unplayable.

Game stores the keymapping info in file named options in the game folder. You could open it in notepad and change keys to your liking, and try starting a new game afterwards. Can't promise it will fix everything, but if your game is already broken it can't hurt either. Only other suggestion i have is getting a more recent version of mod, i'm playing GOF 2.0 with beta patch and i have had zero problems so far.