Pirate Wars...

We got up early Sunday morning to once again help load food and beer on the ships. There wasn’t much wind, so the captains didn’t even bother with the sails and all four ships just motored to Amsterdam. Along the way, we were surprised when the first mate pulled a large hose to the side of the ship and cranked on the water so we could have a pirate war with one of the other ships. Of course, Jimmy couldn’t resist manning the hose.

After a few hashers had a chance to soak a few other hashers, we got another surprise: these two ships were in cahoots to gang up on a third ship.

The unsuspecting hashers were actually set up by their own captain as he slowed to let the other two ships get in position. To make matters worse, Reinhardt knew what was happening and had called everyone up on deck so they were basically sitting ducks waiting to get soaked. Luckily everyone thought it was pretty cool to be caught in a pirate war.

While I stayed inside watching from behind windows, Veronica stayed dry by climbing above the action.

After the war, we continued towards Amsterdam. We had to wait at this point for the drawbridge to rise.

Once we reached our destination, Java Island on the IJ River in eastern Amsterdam, the girls grabbed their belongings and headed off to spend the day together in the city. Soon after our arrival, Jimmy and a co-hare set off to live lay the hangover trail around eastern Amsterdam. Due to some bad inside information, the pack ended up doing part of the trail backwards, but luckily I was able to reach Jimmy and he turned us around. It was a great trail, so glad that we didn’t miss any of it.