I ran this with a bunch of new players along with a few other one shots so they could get a feel for D&D before commiting to a long campaign. This was by far their favourite because of the amount of roleplay involved as well as the multiple phases to the campaign (as opposed to to other one shots where its a single dungeon to complete). They loved the crew members and quickly grew attached to some of the weird personalities. The only nice to have I can think of is a scenario where you can keep some of the pirates alive so they could return for future adventures.