At present, Captain Jack Sparrow starts the game as an honest merchant in command of a naval cutter with hardly any cargo capacity because it's a naval ship, a warship - not a trading ship. So he's not going to make honest money because the storekeepers fleece him whenever he buys and sells cargo, he hasn't the capacity to deliver a cargo, and even smuggling isn't going to be very profitable.
How about giving him a barquentine instead? It's still tier 7, it's pretty good sailing crosswind (as is the cutter) due to its spanker on the mainmast, and it has much more cargo space.
Or even a basic ketch, which doesn't have the cargo capacity of the barquentine but still has better capacity than the cutter because it's dual purpose, both warship and trader.
How about giving him a barquentine instead? It's still tier 7, it's pretty good sailing crosswind (as is the cutter) due to its spanker on the mainmast, and it has much more cargo space.
Or even a basic ketch, which doesn't have the cargo capacity of the barquentine but still has better capacity than the cutter because it's dual purpose, both warship and trader.
