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Month: August 2026

  • William Kidd’s Chest of Plunder

    Throwback plunder time! Bootstrap Ginny is taking a short holiday so sit back and enjoy some of her most popular plunders! Pyrates and chests are almost synonymous. Almost. There are some fairly well-known pyrate chests, and those are the ones I’ve been plunderin’ lately. Namely, the mysterious chest of Billy Bones of Treasure Island fame;…

  • Blackbeard’s 400 lb Medicine Chest

    Throwback plunder time! Bootstrap Ginny is taking a short holiday so sit back and enjoy some of her most popular plunders! Pyrates and chests are almost synonymous. Almost. There are some fairly well-known pyrate chests, and those are the ones I’ve been plunderin’ lately. Namely, the mysterious chest of Billy Bones of Treasure Island fame;…

  • Dead Man’s Chest

    Throwback plunder time! Bootstrap Ginny is taking a short holiday so sit back and enjoy some of her most popular plunders! Pyrates and sea chests are almost synonymous. Almost. There are some fairly well-known pyrate chests, and those are the ones I’ve been plunderin’ lately. Namely, the mysterious chest of Billy Bones of Treasure Island…

  • From the Galley: Pirate Sliders

    Ahoy, mateys! Today I’m bringin’ ye a wee sandwich recipe that our crew often makes for pirate soirees. Ye know, the kind where you have food in one hand and a cup of grog in the other. Pirate Sliders (aka Cuban Sliders) This recipe is simple and OH SO delicious! We do this in layers:…

  • The Surgeons of the Devil’s Ship: Chasing Ghosts

    When the battle at Ocracoke ended, the sea did what it always does: it took what it wanted and left the rest scattered like wreckage. Three men who had served aboard the Devil’s Ship — men who stitched wounds under cannon fire, steadied trembling hands in the lantern‑lit chaos of battle, and witnessed the final…

  • The Surgeons of the Devil’s Ship: Vanished

    Blackbeard was dead. The battle at Ocracoke had ended in smoke, blood, and legend. But the story does not end with the captain’s fall. Not for everyone. Three surgeons served aboard the Devil’s Ship — men who stitched wounds under cannon fire, who steadied trembling hands in the lantern‑lit chaos of battle, who witnessed the…

  • The Surgeons of the Devil’s Ship: The Last Cut at Ocracoke

    There are battles that live only in logbooks, and battles that carve themselves into the bones of history. Ocracoke was the latter. The crew of the Devil’s Ship felt it long before the first shot was fired — a heaviness in the air, a strange stillness in the tide, as though the sea itself braced…

  • The Surgeons of the Devil’s Ship: The Calm in Bath – Blackbeard Ashore

    After the wreck at Topsail Inlet, Blackbeard was no longer the roaring terror of the Carolina coast. He was a captain without a flagship, a pirate without a fleet, and a man whose legend had begun to crack. So he did something no one expected. He went home. Not to England. Not to Nassau. But…

  • The Surgeons of the Devil’s Ship: The Wreck at Topsail Inlet – The Devil’s Ship Breaks

    By June of 1718, Blackbeard was riding the high tide of his own legend. He had blockaded Charles Town, secured the medicine his surgeons desperately needed, and sailed north with a fleet that made every Carolina settlement tremble. But the sea has a way of humbling even the boldest captains, and at Topsail Inlet —…

  • The Surgeons of the Devil’s Ship: Medicine at Gunpoint

    By May of 1718, Blackbeard was no longer just a pirate. He was a storm rolling up the Carolina coast — unpredictable, hungry, and growing more desperate by the day. His ships were battered. His men were wounded. And his three surgeons, taken months earlier from Le Concorde, were running out of the very thing…