Keep in mind that with current trinket prices, it's an extra groschen to start out. Similarly the contract should allow flexibility in the price of purchasing loads of trinkets later, otherwise as it's currently written the ship is going to leave port loaded with 9 trinkets whenever the price of trinkets is high.
Krieg und Frieden may be willing to... overlook the other irregular parts of this contract.
Or you could get in on a contract which already accounts for that!
The following is a contract for the purchase of a merchant vessel, the 'Zuverlässiger Schwertfisch', and an initial load of 10 trinkets, which should cost 12 florins and 1 groschen. The ship will be taken to the Nearsouthlands for trade in sand.
There will be 10 shares, and each of the undersigned parties will contribute 1 florin, 2 groschen and 1 pfennig for 1 share, or correspondingly more for more shares. Once all 10 shares are accounted for, the purchase of the vessel will occur, followed by its operation.
-Rijke Reizen Enterprises (2 shares)
Normal operation of the Zuverlässiger Schwertfisch will be as such: sail to the Nearsouthlands, trade all trinkets for sand, and return to the Republic. On its return to port, the 10 units of sand will be sold at current market prices, and another 10 units of trinkets purchased, and the ship will set sail to the Nearsouthlands again. The surplus funds will be considered profit, and be distributed to the shareholders at 10% of the profit per share held. In the event that the profit is not evenly divisible by 10, it will be rounded down to the nearest divisible amount, and the excess held in the Schwertfisch account until such time as another excess renders it divisible by 10, whereupon it shall be distributed.
Any amendments to the normal operation will require the agreement of the shareholders of at least 6 shares.
Only 1 florin, 2 groschen and 1 pfenning per share, or ₣1.21 in Krieg und Frieden notation.
By the way, evictedSaint, I'd be willing to buy a 10% share in the Dochen Holz lumberyard to secure for myself a regular income source. The only problem is that if the ship contract goes through, I'll be left with ₣0.98, and since I don't know if living expenses come before lumberyard dividends, I might end up bankrupting myself. I'll be willing to purchase a 10% share in Dochen Holz at ₣0.88 instead of ₣0.90. As a bonus, if you sell to me at that price, you'll have enough for TWO shares in the above ship!