Aim for their mainmast!
I just realized that I never posted this, but I saw Master and Commander last Sunday when I was home. It was a really satisfying movie, despite my dislike of Russel Crowe. There was lots of cool naval action, and plenty of British words. It painted a quite, ah, uncompromising picture of shipboard life during the Napoleonic Wars. Its main point seemed to be, it would suck. There were also no less than two teeth-clenchingly disgusting scenes of surgery being performed without the benefit of anesthetic. All in all, a really good movie for anyone interested in history or naval combat. I need to read the book sometime.