I would gladly pay a "service fee" to have all the crates and supplies already loaded onto my ship so I can just set sail. All the supplies currently cost about 50,000 gold and I would happily pay something like 25,000 gold to just have it on my ship.
It could be another box under "repair ship" during the game setup called something like "restocking service". To keep things even when you spawn in, the merchant and shipwright could be "sold out" much like how it is now.
