Ode To A French Rattle

[Aus Robert Maynard]

I was on my usual afternoon resource run back to Kingston, unloaded & sailed off to my holding port for this ship at Pedro Cay.

It was a beautiful day so I thought I'd take the scenic route out to the east of Pedro - had picked up a bottle in that area before so thought i might as well go round - you never know.

 

You never know was right, out of the shining sun to the east comes a French Rattlesnake who must have noticed my trader's snow at about the same time I saw him.

Zoom, he turns toward me & away we go - knowing that I would not get away & that my hold was empty, I decided to play with him for awhile, twisting & turning & just making his play so much harder.

 

Naturally informed nation chat & by the time he had me, we had 3 ships awaiting his exit. I too jumped into Pedro & grabbed my rattle & sailed out to search for him.

We did manage to find him but were unable to re-engage him ....

 

 

The ode to the frenchman comes from the fact that while searching for him I picked up 3 bottles, lost no resources & only lost a traders snow that i had taken from a Frenchman a week earlier.

 

 

Cheers Bloke ...