The rest is pretty much about how to do matelotage yourself (...the ropework, not the pirate buggering).

Bwahahahaha *keels over laughing*
Damn, I needed that. *giggles* Man oh man, I was all "hmm, interesting" and "plot potential" and so on with the serious thoughts and then I saw that and if I had been drinking, it would have been spat across the room.