a Time Flies Travel Company (TFTC) geocache
Walk the Plank
walk the plank: To be forced, as by pirates, to walk off a plank extended over the side of a ship so as to drown.
Pirates did make people walk the plank every now and then, but historical records indicate the practice was extremely rare. In fact, pirates preferred not to kill their victims at all. If they gained a reputation for killing everyone on board of every ship they took, crew members would simply fight to the death every time a group of pirates hopped on deck. That would be an awful lot of work for the pirates, who usually just wanted to take the gold and run. If they did need to get rid of someone, it was much faster to simply push them overboard rather than set up a plank and have them do it themselves.
One infamous case of "walking the plank" occurred near Skidaway Island aboard the Black Barnacle, a pirate ship captained by Jack Narrow. A young lad had sneaked onto the ship as crewmembers were boarding and proclaimed that it was his goal not only to be a pirate but to be captain of the ship someday. In order to discourage the boy from a life of piracy (and perhaps eliminate a potential usurpation of power) Captain Jack had him walk the plank, much to the consternation of the crew. After diving off the end and splashing into the water below, the lad swam the few yards to shore, scurried up the embankment toward home and was never seen by the pirates again.
CACHE: You won't have to walk this plank, but you should go to the end of it to find the treasure.
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