George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
To pirate groupies, he was pirate enough.
Oh, you’ve seen them, there at the taverns and bars, hanging out at the docks.
The beer might be free, but the price you pay is an STD, or even worse, a long-term relationship.
Pirates who settle down just aren’t the same.
They can’t just go out on adventures and looting and pillaging, no matter how much they want to.
They’ve got familiars, mortgages, bills to pay.
Which makes the urge to get back to the open sea all the much stronger.