Looking for pirate stories or anything similar where sailing and ships are present.
It's kinda by definition anti-piratical — there's a few scenes of fighting against pirates — by Aragon's Anthony Carter universe is all about the Napoleonic-era British Navy,
'The Ifrinn' by Cotton Nightie
https://storiesonline.net/library/storyInfo.php?id=12928
winner Halloween Contest-2015
On the surface, the new resort on the Caribbean island of Eilean D'maichte looked like a dream. Zach and Jillian meet in the line to check in and spark an instant connection. After a morning in the sun and an afternoon in bed, the new lovers head off to the Halloween costume ball expecting to have the time of their lives. But then the Ifrinn docks... and nothing will ever be the same again.
If fantasy as opposed to historical fiction works for you, then Sea King by colt45 would be my recommendation.
Ka Hmnd has some stories about pirates:
'A Pirate's Reward'
'Pirate Rising'
'Pirate's Booty'
'The Life of a Pirate'
and not on this site: 'Mage Pirate'; 'Planet Pirate'; 'Privateer'.
I think he has some stories about the MC fighting pirates, but checking the titles of all my downloaded Ka Hmnd stories none of them jostled my memory.
Therefore I just listed the titles containing 'pirate'.
HM.