So... I'd like to stick at least a few things on the airship for Eddie to animate, to help with defenses if we get boarded or something. He can in theory animate up to 10 Huge animated objects, but I think that's probably going a bit overboard.
So I was thinking that we could stick maybe 1 or 2 huge iron statues on there for him to animate, and then he could use the rest for animating ropes and rugs to grapple people, etc. I think rugs would work pretty well, actually. They could be huge, but still not take a lot of room on the ship, and would be good for grappling and blinding creatures, per the animated object rules.
For the statue(s), something like a huge centaur or wemic with a spiked chain would be cool.
Edit: Eh, their attack bonuses are going to be crap, so I might as well just go with a bunch of rugs and ropes that grapple/constrict/blind people and then toss them overboard. Giant statues would take up too much room/weight, anyway. So we need at least ten rugs that are 15 feet long and wide, or so, and some long ropes. I'd think this stuff should be pretty normal for a luxury ship.