Trish_Cavendish

That sounds pretty great. I judge books by covers, truth told, and this book doesn't even have one yet. The endorsement of Richard Zacks speaks volumes (or at least a hundred damned good words). I loved his "Pirate Hunter" (don't be uppity folks, nobody's doing any hunting of y'all--it's his term for Capt. Kidd.

“Go tell your King, he is King of the Land, but I am King of the Sea!” I'm there. Out.

Stoertebeker's one of my idols. He was privateer captain who raised his share of Hell in the North Sea around the 17th Century. Like most of his contemporaries, he eventually got captured and taken to trial. When he and his crew were condemned to death, Stoertebeker made a funky last request. He asked if he could be beheaded standing up while his crew stood in a line beside him. He proposed that all of the crewmen he could run past, after the hatchetman had done his job, be set free. Last wishes being serious business, the judge granted Stoertebeker’s. The day of the execution, the crew was lined up and Stoertebeker was decapitated. But before his blood-spurting, headless body finally hit the dirt, he managed to stagger past fourteen of his men. And if that wasn’t enough to make Stoertebeker a shoe-in for the Pirate Hall of Fame, he got his name ’cause to join his crew, guys had to chug a huge beaker of beer. Name ‘Stoertebeker’ translates from Kraut as "a beaker in a gulp."

Bear in mind, shipmate, that type of brig has a wide range like type of modern transport (van, tractor trailer, convertible, stationwagon, sedan, etc.) and depends on the type and duration of voyage (or simply who you was able to capture her from). Deciding on that might be a good place to start.

Tattoos'd be best, but anything involving a pig or a chicken'd do swelly as, according to tradition, them animals are afeared of the water and with them on, yer loper won't drown.

I signed on here bored with helming a cubicle and in search of a pirate job. None listed in my local help wanteds and I came up empty online. Then I read this post. Throw Europe into the bargain and I'm on a plane (is in unpirate cool to pay for a plane ticket?). Good pickins in the Med Sea this time a year, I'm guessing.