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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 2063400" data-attributes="member: 6957">Your welcome! Part of the reason the Old Sow is called that is that she spawns 'piglets', smaller whirlpools that nestle around her like piglets at a sow's teats. She has a lot of potential.As to port cities - Eastport has some... interesting history. There were people who made their livings during the time between the Revolution and the War of 1812 by having their ships confiscated.American ships were not permitted to trade with British ports, including Canadian, so the captains would load up their ships with goods, and go sailing in British waters off the coast of Canada. Eventually a British Naval vessel would show up and 'force' them into a Canadian port, where they would be 'forced' to sell their cargoes. They would then pay off the fine, get their ship out of impound, head back to Eastport, load up with goods, and do it all over again. In the War of 1812 Eastport became the only U.S. city to ever be held by a hostile foreign power, the British took the city without a shot fired. Mind you the British attacked with overwhelming force, Maine being one of two places that they thought were worth fighting over, the other being Virginia. Virginia had tobbaco, while Maine had the tall timber needed for masts.One of these days I want to do a 'Blackwater' campaign using Skull & Bones - set in New England, as opposed to the 'Bluewater' pirates of the Carribean.The Auld Grump, for I must down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and sky...*EDIT* Changed American to the much more accurate U.S.</blockquote>

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