Be able to Remove Wood Planks from Enemy Ships

My friend and I drive a sloop, and we love to PVP and occasionally come across Galleons, and we are not people to ever back down from a fight. We outplay them completely but they constantly have 2 people repairing. I shot 40 cannonballs into a galleon one time and it got repaired through it all. Then my friend and I jump on board kill them all 2v4 and their ship is fully repaired and we wont be able to get the anchor up in time before they respawn to drive it into land and hurt their ship, so we just end up running around on board like chickens with our head cut off not being able to do anything. At first we thought we were just new to the game and there had to be a way to do this using just your inventory, but then we asked on Discord and found out there wasn't. And I know some of you are going to say use a Gun Powder barrel, which definitely works, however what if you don't have one handy? I'm just honestly think there should be a better way to fight a galleon without combing islands for gun power barrels. My suggestion is a way to remove planks from enemy ships for example with either shooting with a blunderbuss, or removing with the shovel or something that takes equal time as putting a wood plank on. So you can sink their ship if you don't have a gunpowder barrel on board. Because if we would want to shoot them with cannons 1 would have to jump back onto the sloop, line it up correctly shoot it, and by that time 4 people would be respawned and fighting the 1 person and then repairing the damage. I just think it would even it up a bit for sloops vs galleons. I don't really want to be punished because i only have 1 friend to play with, and it's not my taste to random queue with people who I just have to lock in the brig for shooting all my cannonballs directly into the water with no enemies in sight