Listening to the first audiobook and lost on nautical terms. So I'm finally listening to the first book. I've always been interested in historical fiction and I just loved the movie so I've wanted to read this for a long time. However I don't give myself time to read, but I have started to listen to audiobooks while doing chores and decided to start this series now.

I've finished the first 3 chapters ( the audiobook is in 19 chapters, might be different from the actual hardcopy ) and there are a lot of naval terms and things going on onboard the ship are sometimes hard to follow. I'm no expert on the age of sail and have learned since started the basics of different ship types like the difference between a sloop/brig and a proper ship of the line. Also English isn't my first language.

Is there anything that could help me understand better what is going on, somewhere a short recap of each chapter where the technicalities are explained better. Do I just need a hardcopy with footnotes?