They would obey the commands of the king and queen and furnish the two ships, but as for sailing off with this crazy sea captain--that they would not do.
Then the king's officers went to work.

They seized some sailors (impressed is the word for this), and made them go; they took some from the jails, and gave them their freedom as a reward for going; they begged and threatened and paid in advance, and still it was hard to get enough men for the two ships.

Then Captain Pinzon, who had promised Columbus that he would join him, tried his hand.

He added a third ship to the Admiral's "fleet." He made big promises to the sailors, and worked for weeks, until at last he was able to do what even the royal commands could not do, and a crew of ninety men was got together to man the three vessels.

The names of these three vessels were the Capitana (changed before it sailed to the Santa Maria), the Pinta and the Nina or Baby.