If You Know How to Write (or know someone who does), You Could Get Scrimshawed
As you know, there's a lot of downtime between pirate gigs, and unless they're firing at you, it even gets dull when you're chasing down brigs. That's why the thing we need most on this site is entertainment. So if you've got a decent pirate-related yarn, experience, joke or whatever, write it down (in 500 words or less, as these will be read by your fellow pirates, not literature scholars) and e-mail it the heck in to: [email protected]. If you don't know how to write, find someone who can and threaten to stab them if they don't do it for you. Me and my friends'll pick the best ones and post them. And if yours is chosen, Flarq the harpooner will do your scrimshaw from a photo of yourself you send in.

Sample Flarqs:

* Flarq has a thing for kitchen implements (you want to call him a nancy boy, be my guest, just make sure you're wearing underwear you wouldn`t mind being found dead in). So if you want something from your kitchen scrimshawed, you can get that as a prize too.

P.S. See more scrimshaws, including one that's animated, at the PiratesOfPensacola.com.