Belay that

[mizarchivist]

Avast there, scurvey dogs. Run up that mizzen mast, strike the colors and prepare to come about.

In honor of this auspicious day, a passage from the original:

Genlemen of fortune usually trusts little among themselves and right they are, you may lay to it. But I have a way with me, I have. When a mate birngs a slip on his cable- one as knows me,  I mean- it won't be in the same world with old John. There was some that was feared of Pew, and some that was feared of Flint; but Flint his own self was feared of me. Feared he was, and proud. They was the roughest crew afloat, was Flint's; the devil himself would have been afeared to go to sea with them. Well, now, I tell you, I'm not a boasting man, and you seen yourself how easy I keep company; but when I was quartermaster, lambs wasn't the word for Flint's old buccaneers. Ah you may be sure of yourself in John's old ship.

... think ye that the library committee will take a fancy to my gentleman-of-fortune lingo?