I'd love to do what you did Atto, or what MacGayver has, I have sooo many pirate ships but I am no craftsman I can't even cut a sticker straight 
hehe, i wouldn't put my custom pearl on par with anything macgayver has crafted. I remember when I first sailed the pearl in its early stages, and a passerby asked me if I "made" it. Rather than explain that it was made out of hacked up parts of various ship toys, repainted, and then given extra sails and masts simply cut from cloth and wooden dowels, I just said "yes" (I made it). But when I said "yes," I looked guiltily at my daughter (who knows the truth about the nature of its construction) because I felt like I was lying by saying I "made" the ship. Macgayver's ships are heavily customized and constructed.
@tahra and wolf: What I did anyone can do if you have a hacksaw and a dremel and some sticks and string. Admittedly, I wasn't even that precise with my cuts because I figured this is a haunted decrepit old pirateship with cuts and holes and rotten sails and wood. It was TIME CONSUMING, but not very difficult, IMO.
@WOT: spare 3286 hulls on ebay and craigslist: I never pay more than $20 for them. I don't mind missing masts and rigging, because wooden dowels and non-playmo string and fabric can replace them EASILY (unless you're a playmopurist). Besides, real rigging and cloth sails is so much cooler IMO. The only reason I pay market price for a ship is if I intend to keep it in its original playmobil form (I try to collect one of each ship to leave uncustomized unless its factory form is just too ugly).
@Primus: I have started customizing the 4444 and the ghost version 4444 (i forget the number). Gave it real masts and rigging, made it a square rigged with two jibs and a spanker. But hardly hacking them up, hehehe.
I wanna see more of other people's hackjobs please
