Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Aye, pirates always need a wench!!

Gar, as I had already told ye all, women were never allowed onboard a ship. This be raising a question of great importance.. Did pirates ever have a woman to their side? Jeje, well of course they did! Tortuga was an island were most pirates went to for protection from the government and to have a good time. When pirates docked here, they needed to get off the ship to get gold from their pillages and go get some rum, and they usually took a few days, maybe weeks in doing this.. Did they need all that time? Jeje.. No. The pirates that survived all the battles went onto land and went straight to spending their newfound gold on rum and women. Sometimes, a pirate actually wanted to stay with a certain wench, and so two things were possible. The traitors would stay on land and become a landlubber. Others would break the rules and bring a wench aboard the ship. This was very dangerouse, women being bad luck onboard and all, so they had to dress the wench as a man, and she would have to work hard as another pirate. This broke many rules, and was risky for the wench and the mate trying to pull this. Although, if things worked out well, they would never get caught and would eventually die at sea together. =)

2 comments:

  1. That is pretty hardcore. Pirates must have been ninja's also to sneak a woman on board a ship. If it were me, I would take that risk because I wouldn't survive without a woman in my sights. Also, why would the woman be unlucky? I believe that they men would get distracted with a woman on board, but I think those women aren’t bad luck. Sweet blog.

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  2. This is really interesting. I did not know the captain was chosen through vote. You can say it is a form of democracy; it is amazing how much it spread. Also I found it interesting that if the captain became too brutal they could kick him out. A captain could not become a type of dictator and control his ship and crew forever. It was very democratic, and fair.

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