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Important: Before making changes to the savegame, make a BACKUP of it and reload from there if things go wrong...
The standard method is surely as Sailor Steve explains it.
If you are really annoyed by all these waypoints to pass, you can try this:
Go to your savegame folder for SH3, to ...\SH3\data\cfg, and open the file playersettings.cfg. You will see at the end something like this:
(...)
DeparturePointLong=1219147.000000
DeparturePointLat=6517648.000000
DeparturePointHeading=298.000000
Then you must also go to your most recent savegame located in ...\SH3\data\cfg\Careers\[Captain name]\0, and locate the file [savegame name].psc where you should read the same data.
First you must find out what this data will look like for the port Wilhemshaven by stopping and saving in the vicinity and looking in your save. After you know this data, you can substitute the data for your current or future saves and start from there, bypassing all the chanel.
More generally, entering approximate data in these lines should start you wherever you want to start. Just be sure to keep all the number syntax (change the numbers to your liking, but the quantity of single numbers must remain the same).
Does it work? I don't know, I never tried it...Thanks to feedback if it does
