One of the things I do for comic relief is have the PCs run across a particular ship full of really stupid sailors.
They are almost always in dire trouble when the PCs come across them, like the one time they were out in the middle of the ocean and their sails were on fire. The PCs had to put the fire out for them, because they didn't think of using sea water to put it out themselves.
The name of the ship is the Storm, and the captain ("pilot") looks and sounds an awful lot like Robert Plant.
It shouldn't take too much prodding before the PC's start calling it the "Ship of Fools"....