Part 1 by Amande Marie Landreneau A woman aboard a sailing ship brings bad luck. Men have been saying so for many, many years, but that doesn’t make it true.Yes, I’m sure that having a woman aboard—or even a few—will bring about jealousy aboard a ship full of men so lonely that they will fight for a woman, any woman. When pirates are involved, then fighting is the same as killing, I’d guess. So unless there’s a woman for every man, I expect there would be trouble, but I wouldn’t say it was the woman’s fault. The bad luck comes when men misbehave, so I’d say it was their fault, wouldn’t you? Regardless of where the fault lies, the “no-woman” rule wasn’t a bad one, when it came to keeping the peace aboard ship.Every man who sailed with Gola George knew the rules. No one without a Y-chromosome boards a pirate ship. Actually, come to think of it, George was already violating that rule. He was stealing women, or buying them, at every port in the Caribbean, but they didn’t stay on his ship long enough to cause trouble.
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