Currently, ship profiles are used to distribute attributes how you want them.
Could profiles be improved to include crew and cannons?
For instance. If I build 20 cutters according to the ship profile I've set, I then have to manually add some crew to each ship to improve my chances of keeping them. I'd like to set this stuff in the profile.

+1 You should be able to set and save an entire ship's config. As well, it would be awesome if you can combine multiple profiles as a group for a fleet config.

cannons is just about gc; crew depends on and lowers the port influence you have. that's a bit more complicated.