boat maintenance thread

While hiring the snake and harlot for crewing purposes did cross my mind, it sadly occurred to me that a snake is lacking in hands and is thus grossly unsuitable for managing all a ship's fiddly bits.

Fortunately, I was close enough to home that new crew were a half-tankard of fuel away, and still far enough that aspersions upon my managerial skills hadn't yet reached the taverns of London. I popped in on a few occasions between some exploratory jaunts to the Corsair's Forest and other key points of the soul trade, and found myself some intriguing individuals to join my crew:

-A guy with a really nasty looking tattoo, and a deathwish involving a trip to the frigid north.
-A hook-handed engineer; calls himself a magician.
-A devil-consorting maniac of a gunner whose idea of a dinner date involves torpedo components.

I've got no pressing goals beyond amassing enough money to make a Master jealous, and finding some place out east called the Empire of Hands. My bro in the Admiralty's Office lent a book or something to a friend out that way and wants it back. If any of my correspondents have suggestions or known avenues of easy money, I'd be happy to hear them.