What makes me a pirate is my 25 years of US Coast Guard Service as a Boatswain's Mate. Many patrols to the Caribbean, Bahamas, around South America, the equator, through the Panama Canal and the Bering Sea having been stationed on some great CG Cutters with the most amazing port calls. St Thomas, St Croix, Tortola BVI, Granada, San Juan PR and Curacao to name a few. I was stationed in the Outer banks of NC, CG STA Hatteras Inlet and Ocracoke, where Edward Teach (Blackbeard) lost his head at Teaches Hole. I've received Order of the Ditch, Order of the Spanish Main, Shellback and Bluenose certificates in my travels and hold a 100gt Capt License with towing endorsement. I've been carried back to the ship by shipmates drunk and unable to walk from Rum Runners and Sloppy Joe's in Key West. I've been to Kilauea in Hawaii, Dutch Harbor in Alaska and many points in between. I've seen dolphins that look like comets swimming through phosphorus next to the ship during the mid watch. I've seen stars that stretch from one end of the horizon to the other without anything in the way.
I've witnessed some of the most beautiful sunsets, some of which with a green flash. (Excellent in the game by the way) I've weathered storms that have listed the ship to the point that you could just about walk on the bulkhead.
I may not have been an actual pirate but I am without question salty. Now I have sailed the Sea of Thieves and live my days as a deaf Pirate Legend trying to win the love of Olga at Golden Sands Outpost. ; )
As for my one change request for the game, I wish that they would add a Rum Runner's to Golden Sands Outpost with NPC's that resemble my closest shipmates from over the years.
Fair winds and following seas!