User blog comment:Luffayking12/here is my list of people joining SH/@comment-1362207-20111017015239

I think we all need to consider that there may not even BE new crew members. I cant think of any new occupations besides helmsman and there are several people on the crew like Franky who are more than capable of doing that. Sure there is First Mate or Second Mate... But that would require Luffy to pick someone to be superior in command to the others. Luffy doesn't do stuff like that. Luffy treats all of his crew equally. That is why, despite ALL of his qualifications for a First Mate, Zoro is never described as one. So yeah, I think it is very possible that Brook was the last Nakama.