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Yo-ho-ho! And a bottle of rum!!!!

3:03 Maen! "Come Sail Away" (and then try to get that song out of your head)

4:21 How does a great big ship like that get caught on a tiny little piece of film that fits into a camera?

This looks like it would be an adventure!

♫ ♫ They said come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me ♫♫

Oh, thanks so much, Dan!

6:53 Hi to all. A fine ship.

Oh for the free life flying under the black flag!

People are in too much of a hurry to go places these days.

maen all! i'll be boating all weekend...albeit on a much smaller scale! bringing my waders for clammin' so i don't freeze my wee-wee off this time.

Look what you did Dan! You have Kathy singing!!!!

I don't have much affection for things that float, but I do recognise beauty when I see it. That is a lovely photo of a beautiful boat (ship?).
What is the black blob on the starboard side?

5:04, hi everyone.

The free life, sure. Murder, rapine (to get by the censors), destruction, pillage, widows, orphans...

It's a mistake to romanticize those people, just as it is a mistake to make heroes out of street gangs.

Ian, you've touched on a long-standing dispute about vocabulary.

Some say that if you can load it onto a ship, it's a boat. If you can't, it's a ship.

Another variation on that theme is that, if it works for a living, it's a ship, and if it's a toy, it's a boat. But that ignores More...

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Ian, you are NOT a pontificator! You are a wordsmith

Baz, wasn't he a poet?

A good number of people flying under the black flag were Privateers, not pirates. They sailed under letters of marque from the King or Queen, and served as an extension to the military. They just kept the plunder as their pay. It was no worse than modern military having civilian casualties. They were just more colorful.