| Any self-respecting pirate, loaded down with loot, needed a place to blow off steam. Someplace with free-flowing rum, easy companionship, and receptiveness to ill-gotten merchandise.
Throughout the Caribbean and northern Atlantic, establishments with expansive terms of comfort sought to accommodate groups of free-spending, swaggering, staggering seafarers. In between swills, the pirates recruited sailors, promoted mutiny on merchant vessels, and learned routes of other prospects for plunder. Where are these places? Do any still exist? What tales do they hold?
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