Hilariously bad form.

TWO battle-sails today! I haven't sailed ONE before and now I get TWO! Amazing Grace had some trouble with her insurance, so instead of splitting the passengers between us and having one go, we'll take ALL of them aboard the Lady and go through it twice.

Kinda. There wasn't a lot of wind, so our opponent (brigantine-turned-schooner-stepchild-thing ) elected to cast loose her dies'l and motor around us in circles. She also decided that it was just a lot easier to leave all the canvas up between sails, and moored without furling. How clever!

So not our best performance ever. Particularly when the Gunner's Mate accidentally blew loose powder charges through the swivels (there wasn't a rammer in the swivel kit, and the debris in the back of the chamber built up so that the primer powder just filled up behind the charge and blew it out like a projectile). Thankfully we're lousy shots, and the flaming packets of explosive missed both the Grace *and* her jolly-boat and splashed harmlessly into the sea. Hilarious, but bad form. That ain't friendly, kid!