And while the little schooner and its questing skipper are nosing through the warm blue waters of channels in and out of the Indies looking for more data on old Stormalong, there are other legends and facts that will be gathered and catalogued for future use.

"For instance," said Hubbard, "I’m going to try to locate Henry Morgan’s grave. Henry was the boy, you’ll remember, who ploughed his bloody way through these seas, and then decided to try for a pardon. He was successful, and the king, thinking perhaps the best way to catch pirates was with a pirate, made him Sir Henry, and the governor of Jamaica. Then the old buzzard turned out to be as thorough a disciplinarian on the righteous side as he had been in maintaining his bloody rule over the buccaneers. He got rich in a few years by using the death penalty, tricing the pirates up in chains, selling slaves to the plantations and seizing pirate craft right and left. He is supposed to have died in Jamaica, but no one knows for certain, and certainly no one knows where he’s buried.

"Surely a man who cut such a mark on the history of his day would not have been buried in an unmarked spot."