I will indeed hang in.  Your degree of saltiness was never in question.<br/><br/>I was under the impression that the Val-Verde islands were a Spanish protectorate.  My bad.  Kinda makes him his own navy.  Of course if the islands had no official navy a commissioned privateer would do the trick nicely.  Of course it would also attract unwanted attention that might lead to a mutiny.<br/><br/>It is unlikely that Wendel would have met her or her husband and given that it was not a British or Spanish privateer, his knowledge of the matter would be limited.  Of course he certainly remembers everything he heard of it, no matter how trivial.