In the old days of the pirates in the Caribbean, how did pirating go down.
If you're a captain and go out pirating, how did you do it? How do you find a ship in an ocean? When you find it did they fight back or just surrender? What did they do to the crew and cargo? How did they get caught? How do you even take a ship that didn't want to be taken? Sink it?
There's a lot of questions there - a topic worthy of a book. In fact, there is a book out there called The Sea Rover's Practice by Benerson Little that would be ideal for your question. He does excellent work, and gets into great detail on the questions you've posted thus far. If you are looking for information here, I would recommend this previous topics on this subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1wdd0n/im_a_typical_sailor_in_the_caribbean_around_the/
One of my good posts in that topic that applies to this question is this one: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1wdd0n/im_a_typical_sailor_in_the_caribbean_around_the/cf1kx5o
Please respond back if you want something more. It's just a bit hard to figure out what to hit with your questions since there's so many things I could start getting into on that subject.