Avast, ye maties! The fearsome crew of the Northern Symphony swarmed the mainland fortress to search for booty: Captain Wills, Rose the terror, Leslie the fearsome, and Anne the Awesome this day engaged the assembled legions in a sea-borne battle to reach the fabled treasure!

We're still here in Marathon and enjoying the cruising community. Somebody decided to organize a pirate-themed treasure hunt and, of course, we immediately signed up. Evelyn and Leslie took it as a creative challenge and, with supplies from the local thrift store, constructed some great piratical costumes and stitched a proper pirate flag that we proudly flew from our boathook. The weather was windy and cold with rain threatening, so everybody else turned up in foulies, but we were dressed the part.

The hunt itself was conducted by dingy with compass and GPS units. Of course, with our quiet little electric outboard we were at rather a disadvantage but, with two people paddling to supplement, we held our own. The final leg of the course required the engines to be shut down and the dingies to be rowed or paddled and we more than held our own through that! We weren't the first people to reach the treasure, but we had as much fun as anybody else. Strangely, Scourge of the Sea demonstrated a complete lack of pirate instinct and spent the entire time asleep aboard Northern Symphony.... truly a fearsome feline. Not!