[mmiles8]

the pathing of the boats was corrected, but sister isle is there on the way back from BB.

From EQAtlas, circa 2000

The map is very confusing, mostly because I think Verant was confused when they set up this area. According to the geography of Norrath, Faydwer lies to the southeast of Antonica. On this map, you go west from Antonica to get to Faydwer. Don't ask me to explain, that's just the way it is.

So it was technically correct for the boat to go the incorrect way, but the devs here made it more correct, so what you think is incorrect is really correct, even though it's incorrect.