Aye, that kind of oblivion based piracy (instead of caribbean-arrr pirates) fits in pretty well I reckon. I'd be more than happy to hook you guys up with some skin refits for ships and such, though it'd be nice to have .obj's, .3ds, or .max formats to work with instead of nif
Say, I got plenty of modeling friends that from time to time do pirate ships. I'll try to get together one day to see if we can get some vessels for ye scurvies.
As for myself, I work on a Pirates mod already called BFPirates (bfpirates.com) and I'd really really love to help out this mod. I know it aint much as I never really quite uploaded everything, but
http://www.jimtib.com/tibmaker/ is some of my work. My modding includes Battlefield series, Command and Conquer's, Empire at War, Half Life's, on and on. Uh, I can model a little, unwrap good, texture (from scratch) good, I worked with CS already in a few of my oblivion mods, and am an okay writer.
Hope you all can spare some room, because I am really excited about this mod and would do anything for it!