u/Johnkree

Hello!
So I watched some playthroughs, I played several games of Mörk Borg, which I love, aaaand I decided to buy a physical copy of Pirate Borg. I created a character, I downloaded Cabin Fever with the Captain&Crew solo rules and everything looks great. I have an awesome backstory in mind that throws me and my boat directly into the sea fleeing from an agry father my "dumb" PC fell in love with. My mind is exploding with ideas but there is one thing I can't figure out myself: Crew.
So I have a Sloop, because my PC's dice say that he stole a ship. And I figured to give it just enough crew to sail the boat. Now the solo rules state that I should make crew mates similar to the PC but just with HP, weapon and 5 stats. Fine.
But what do I do with big ships? I'm not so eager to generate, print out and track 20+ crew mates?
I thought that bigger crews might just be ship stats? I cannot find anything about how to handle this? The core rulebook has a part about specialty crew members but doesn't say how to handle crews?
I thought about making some named sidekicks, like NPCs in Mörk Borg. And the rest should be nameless ship stats? How do you handle this?

I'm from Europe and I recently ordered Down Among the Dead from a local store. But it seems that there is no pdf included, like in the Limithron or Free league store. Am I missing out on something? The digital stuff that came with the core book had an asset pack included and various editions of the pdf...
Now I'm not sure if I should cancel and order from Free League or Limithron directly?