Hey, thanks for the feedback, had a couple of other mention this me as well, saying they kept trying to drag it. I've added a line of directions as you suggested.

Maybe version 2 will be touch enabled and let you control the wheel to turn to any degree, not just the cardinal directions :)

My first instinct, after figuring out how to turn, was to try to ram the other ship.

I was very sad when I realized I couldn't even point myself at it.

Sorry to cause you this great sorrow. And thank you for the ridiculously awesome suggestion. I've been thinking cannon balls... but keep an eye out for ramming in V3! I smell a massively multiplayer CSS based naval title on the horizon ;)

Pull requests welcome, the code is on github https://github.com/webpop/css-pirate-ship