Having watched the linked video and its other part ages ago and again more recently, my chief question is always the same. Who begins the process? Given that the captain is just a crew member hired like the rest, who is the one that begins the recruiting process? Without covering that, it almost feels like piracy is caused by random, persuasive ships floating into port. Have I just missed that info every single time?
Usually sea captains of commercial/state ships did the recruiting by usually being extremely abusive and exploitive. All the pirates have to do is get their treasure and let the crew kill their captain and some will want to join.
I’d be OK with it if it wasn’t for all the murder. I’m not really down with that.
So just some occasional, light murder? I suppose it would come down to the benefits package, in that case.
Now yee getting it.
The phrasing of “Looking for treasure” makes it sound like it’s just lying there, possibly buried a kindly philanthropist.
What if we fire no guns, shed no tears?
I answered an ad like this posted by Elcid Barrett back in Nova Scotia. Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett’s privateers.
I don’t know that I’d recommend the career.
I’m sorry about your legs.
because they’re made out of wood?
Eh, you can’t sing shanties if you’ve got two legs, and you don’t own a boat, and you’ve got no beard.
And you can’t shout ho?
Elcid Barrett
Misremembering lyrics and making them up is accurate to the medium!
God damn the autocorrect, too!
How I wish I was in Shorebrook now.
Can I bring my pet parrot ?
You’re hired!
I used to be a farmer and I made a living fine
I had a little stretch of land along the CP line
But times were tough and though I tried, the money wasn’t there
'Til bankers came and took my land and told me “Fair is fair.”I looked for every kind of job, the answer always “no.”
“Hire you now?” they’d laugh and say, “We just let forty go.”
The government, it promised me a measly little sum
But I’ve got too much pride to end up just another bum.But I thought, who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone.
I’m gonna be a pirate on the river Saskatchewan!I don’t know the tune, but it works to Banned from Argo.
The fact that there’s a performance based profit share is a huge draw
Also, if I remember correctly, the crew votes on the captain prior to setting sail and there are mechanisms in place to replace the captain if they aren’t performing well enough.
I know this is a shit post, but you really can voluteer to sail the world with the Nao Santa María,
https://www.fundacionnaovictoria.org/
I’ve been on it a while back, beautiful ship.
A bucket list item of mine is to go on a training ship. I was eyeing up this one https://sailtraininginternational.org/vessel/statsraad-lehmkuhl/.
Aaand bookmarked. 100% going on my list of stuff to do.
Too bad you don’t get paid for it (in fact, you have to pay for it yourself).
A [*squints*] ~20 gun frigate with a crew of only 30-50? That’s sounds like a startup nightmare. You’d probably want double that to be comfortable.
“Get in on the ground floor of our fast paced, dynamic environment! Must be self starter willing to work watch-on-watch for the team. No sick days.”
More rum for me.
“You know how you normally work dog watches, 4 hours on, 4 hours off? Yeah… Well half the crew quit.”
“As a result we’re redistributing their watches to the remaining crew from now on. As a result, you can rest when we’re in port”
That musical instrument list is a joke! No squeeze boxes? No woodwind? No percussion?
No hornpipe. I’m out
Calm down Horatio.
I mean you can stamp your feet for percussion in a shanty
If we have a right to choose the captain I’m sold.
It’s like a startup
Nice try IDF
Is alcohol tolerance required?
No but you must drink anyway
It’s expected you’ll pick it up on the job!
consults wellerman lyrics
hard pass
Objectively better than my current job
I can’t play any of those instruments but I know how to make hard tack edible and can reef a sail.
I’ve also got a copy of Lobscouse and Spotted Dog for making authentic sailor meals
