Hi.
Its an ambisius project you got going on there.
Im sure we can collaborate on the boat part. I would probealy need several anchor points on the boat. gun pos. driver pos, top mast pos, shuffling charcole pos 
The steamboat was just someting that was borne by adding in parts to it.
1st i made this small boat. seen here.
But due to the waterplane issue. i desided not go ahead and mess around with it.
So i took the same hull. made it larger and well yeah, you see what came out of it so far
i have teamspeak too, but a verry bad mic. I do use skype though. and steam but not so much.
There is still lots of stuff i need to finish up. mesh, textures, colision model, animations, so on.
So its still verry far from the public.