Peter Von Danzig
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For sure, there's a lot of low hanging fruit in terms of rules for boats and ships. I think perhaps there are some cross-purposes at work here. It's probably my fault but the contributions have been mostly about combat on ships between men rather than between ships, which now that I reread it was indeed part of your question.
At the SSk level of resolution I'd treat ships like warbands but with different peripheral rules (skills, actions, etc). I'm a big fan of dragging a game's base resolution through all its systems rather than switching gears. I think the 4d20 combat rules would work wonderfully to represent a warband or ship's crew training.
And to be clear, I didn't mean any of my post as a criticism, just as another way of looking at it.