If you haven’t seen them already, I highly recommend CGP Grey’s excellent pair of videos on how to be a pirate captain and quartermaster.

Yo Ho

These are now the rules of this sublemmy. This is canon.

This book has a chapter on this which is really good!

The whole book is pretty interesting, but that chapter especially is fantastic. A late draft of the book is available for free on that site, if this interests anyone, give it a read!