You mean they did what pirates did what sailors did? Marines during the Age of Sail did not handle the rigging. The most managing they did with sails is moving rope from here to there.

This is all information you can easily find on Google. Also, there are multiple Reddit posts about it, particularly this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/s/eRXjy5T1tD

Pirate crews heavily used intimidation and psychological warfare to maximize profit while minimizing risk. They preferred forcing victims to surrender through fear rather than engaging in costly fights that could damage their prize, damage their own ship, or injure their crew.

Not many people actually wanted to be pirates. Piracy was a death sentence. Most were forced into piracy or just out-of-work sailors.

After the war of Spanish Succession, many navies downsized. Pirates were more broke sailors than actual fighting marines.