Philistines! Thieves! Brigands! Leaving Salty Old G to a watery grave on his lonesome! Blistering Barnacles!
So I specced up a galleon with the maximum amount of everything and waited...and waited...and nobody came...until a friendly Pirate Legend happened by. We exchanged pleasantries and he helped me up anchor and get on my way before returning to his Brigantine.
Set sail solo on my Galleon then and headed for Wanderers Arch where I dropped anchor.
Busied myself while waiting for my crew by exploring the island and filling the crows nest with gunpowder barrels for the battle ahead.
Waited some more.

Canonfire! 
I rush to the top of the island and pull out my spyglass. There to the east, is a solitary Brigantine battling two Skelly Pirate Ships.
I watch for a while through the telescope, all the while wishing my crew were here so I could help the poor dogs.
Time passes.
He's holding his own, but he's outnumbered and getting a pasting.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
I up anchor, and catching the wind sail straight for the battle. If nothing else I can help out with the fucktonne of supplies I'm carrying, because I figure that sailing a Galleon solo, I'm not realistically going to be much help.
I steam passed him with a hearty "Ahoy" and one of the Skelly Ships gives chase. I leg it in the hope I can buy him some time by luring them away...but it's faster than me and soon catches up. 
Mad Bastard McG opens up with every canon on the Galleon as they pass and somehow I manage to avoid being holed below the waterline.
The Skellys make a run for it back to the Brigantine. I fix the damage to my ship and give chase.
This time I have the wind! As they approach the Brigantine I catch them and again give them another broadside of canon fire. This time I'm taking on water, but while I'm baling and fixing the ship, I see the Skellys Ship sinking!
I've only single handedly sailed a Galleon and sunk one of the Skelly Ships to boot! I AM LEGEND!

The battle of course then takes a turn for the worse. There's only one more Skelly Ship to defeat...but then the Megalodon rears it's head and at the same time another Skelly Ship rises from the depths!

The Megalodon attacks the Skelly Ship while I'm giving it another pasting, and for just a second I think that luck might be on my side! 

But no, while I'm below repairing the ship, the Megalodon turns on me and takes an enormous chunk out of my hull. A skelly ship has now come up on the other side of me to boot and hits me with cursed cannonballs. I'm fucked now. With no one to help me, I sink like a stone.
I make one last ditch attempt and board the Skelly Ship. I fight my way to the bottom of their hull which is half full of water and take out half a dozen of the bastards fixing their boat before finally being ganked in the back by a Skelly with a blunderbuss. The cowardly bastard!

I wake up on a tiny island. I have no idea where I am. Then another pirate appears. It's Boolit! 
Sadly I can't hear him talking though, and as this is now all too little too late I log off from the game (apologies mate).

It just goes to show what one man can achieve though. 
I like to think that somewhere on the high seas, there's a pirate sailing a Brigantine now and wondering, "Who was that mad bastard in the Galleon? Now that guy had some balls!"

tomorrow is another day shipmates

g.man

S'all good mate. Dad time always takes precedence. Tomorrow is another day.

hope he's feeling better

g.man

AAARRRRRRRRR! We be missing you Cap'n Pea.

Gripping tales salty McG!  
I would have joined you if not in Croatia with the cast of Mama Mia 2 and two very, very late nights previous.

For clarification, it was in Cineworld Crawley, screen 4.

This is cool...

I’m often cruising after ten so just jump aboard.

@g.man

No worries man, i spawned on your sinking ship with nothing but my underpants. I tried to soak up as much of the water as possible and wring them out over the side but alas the ship was doomed.

Tbh it's a bit of a failing of the game there. There really should be a fucking great Klaxon goes off to tell you a shipmate has spawned in. Christ, even just have the ships bell ring automatically and give me a big screen prompt to let me know Rare, because if you're in the thick of battle busywork there's no bloody way you're going to know if you're in gamechat (which is flaky at the best of times).

I was plotting a galleon tonight too, what time Captain Cosby?

Sadly I'm still poorly or I'd gladly jump aboard. Had God's own headache for a week now

@Hair I’ll probably be online from about 7.30-8pm so throw me an invite when you’re ready.

I’m just cooking, but I’ll jump in after I’ve eaten in there’s space.

We have room for one more.

Those cursed cannonballs are the fucking worst. Every battle for me has ended with my ship sinking while I'm stuck fucking dancing.