My pet peeve was the distances. You've got two bloody big ships with bloody big cannon on board, right? So how come all the film has them about 50 yards from each other then?! The range of those kind of cannon can't have been much less than half a mile, so by the time you've got 50 yards from the other ship, the quantity of cannonballs coming over is going to have pretty much mashed both ships to a pulp!

The lookouts suffer from it too. "Ship ahoy!" "Well bugger me, so there is, and it's only 50 yards away too. Damn, we must have been asleep for the last half hour! Good job you spotted it, or we might've run straight into it. Right, recoil-less guns out lads, and don't forget the exploding cannonballs..."

Graham.