George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He volunteered for night watch duty because he wasn’t very good at things which happened during the day.
He was also an amateur astronomer, and he’d use his telescope to look up at the stars.
Out on the ocean, with no light pollution, the night sky was amazing, and he was on the lookout for the other plants, comets, and the many wonders of the cosmos.
He wasn’t on the lookout for other rocks, other ships, and storms.
He shouted “HARD TO PORT” and “HARD TO STARBOARD” a lot.