How to change captain?

[RaPriest]

I've bought transporter ship. Captain bundled with it was so bad, that I couldn't even set "Autotrade" behavior. So I called him, told him that he's fired.
Aaaand there is no way to hire new one.
I can promote captain from crewmen. But since you can only hire apprentice crewmen (and they never improve) - promoted captain has one star in one skill at best.

I moved the ship to shipyard. Removed all the crew. Still, upgrade ship window shows that the has a captain, and there 1/21 crew members (while its 0/21 in information screen).

Only solution I see for now - get to station, where ship is docked, manually hire someone (while walking on station), assign as captain and pray that they will have good enough skills.
WUT?

[John The Dad]

Yeah, I've tried changing captains too, seems there's no way for it to recognise you've fired all the crew onboard, so you basically get to hire a 0 piloting skill engineer or marine to fly your ship.

[RaPriest]

Ok have walked around trading station - there is no one with piloting sklills to hire.

So. If you bought a ship for autotrade (for example), and got captain with skills too low - you have to SELL the ship and BUY new one.
That the ONLY way to get a new captain.

Egosoft, are you kidding?

[Cly-J]

I believe you can go on board another ship and poach their captain