Voyage to Kitchen Island

Pirate Season '07 got off to a jolly (Roger) good start, beta testing the new vessel (the Maryland) with a skeleton crew of Kathleen, Claire and Bones on board for Super Bowl XLI. No one has taken heed to choose their pirate name yet -- though Bones doesn't really need to. (How lucky is the Maryland to have crew member named "Bones"?) He reminds me of the guy in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies who was also on the original Brit version of "The Office" (he's the one who had his eye stolen by the undead monkey -- in the movie not the TV show. I don't think the show ever had an undead monkey though Ricky Gervais would have had a blast with that.)
The maiden voyage went without a hitch, Claire won the galley-ho award for going for feeding the crew with a host of retro fare (homemade Chex mix, meatballs served on pirate-like skewers and a fruit-filled Jell-O dessert that was pillaged heartily by the entire crew).
Incidentally there was some kind of game on the TV the whole time -- won by somebody named Colt. The best part was Prince fiddling with his instrument behind a shadow curtain during halftime. Sly devil that he is, proving that you can uphold the letter of the law for the FCC and still make it look like you're stroking your glyph in front of the whole world.
No word on the next voyage though the great desert island of Lost Wages looms.