To preface, I’m rather new at speedrunning, so I chose to do the all dungeons run to enjoy the game. I’m sure most of you know, but about 45 minutes in there’s a superswim from the back of Dragon Roost to Greatfish for early bombs. I’m more than capable of doing the superswim, and tend to get it on my first go. Once I clear the cutscene, I opt out of doing the Greatfish superswim since it’s a rather difficult endeavor. The guide I was following said to hop into KoRL and he’ll take you to Windfall, which happened for the first few times I ran the game. But now, when I get to Greatfish, the game won’t allow me to hop in the boat, and I need to drown in order to get into him. The fact that this loses time isn’t the only issue; he appears behind the island and proceeds to sail into it, getting himself stuck, and because you can’t do anything this effectively soft locks the game. I’d appreciate any help, because this is an incredibly annoying problem and I can’t really run the game, even a rough run, with it. Thanks!
In order to be able to hop in KoRL after visiting DRI, you must have obtained Din's Pearl, the Wind's Requiem and set the wind direction to South. You probably didn't do one of these things. And yeah, if you enter KoRL in any other way (such as by drowning or voiding-out), KoRL will get stuck by the island and you will softlock.
If you're running AD or 100%, this is not really an issue since you usually have both the Wind's Requiem and Din's Pearl at that point, and so you can hop in KoRL and it only loses around 1m30s compared to the very hard superswim.
If you're running Any%, I recommend you to follow the Beginner Route that you can find here, which avoids Greatfish completely (while actually being faster: http://zelda.speedruns.com/twwhd/routes/any-beginner
