Make sure you have a bow, enough arrows to fight, and aqua shot.

Due to the lack of volunteers and the necessity of having manpower in the water, people will be picked at random to perform those task.

When we drop a ship(s) we are ending up with many pissed off peeps in the water and no way to deal with them other than shooting the cannons at them. Also we can not send over a boarding party to seize the ship if we can't fight in the water.

There was also an issue of people running out of repair shards and black powder. I normally take 100 repair shards, and 300 blank powder. I don't know how many you need, but please make sure you don't run out or forget the repair tool.