Company
As a company player, you are responsible for holding the ship down. This means you will be shooting the guns repairing the mass if they are damaged, healing the engine, controlling the masts. Companies are the heart of the ship captains control the direction, and if they are facing the wind, they make the ship move faster, and if they drift the ship correctly, a company can have a head on advantage, but truly company players are the heart of the ship. captains can’t do much damage by themselves. What does the damage that takes down monsters and other players are companies, this is reliable upon how well you can aim, the damage of the cannons and the type of cannons that you are using refer to this link. https://wiki.capnco.gg/Cannons
Depending on how many companies are on the ship damage varies and loot is always split differently. How this works is everybody gets a single role on every monster that’s killed and every single person will receive a different drop. A captain playing solo will not last long, but a boat accompanied with companies will survive much longer acquire much more loot, and be able to heal the ship faster. There is no disadvantage to having more companies on a boat other than you do a little less damage. If you have one or four companies abord, refer to the link above, that is linked to see Cannon damage the range and how it scales with how many crewmembers are on board.