Ok, moving on.....
My handle comes from the name of a SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) household I belonged to;
we were members of a crew of late-Tudor period pirates (self-named "Aquatic Property Transfer Engineers"),
though we did have a warrant from the Crown (a pre-Letter of Marque) against the French. My position was the ships Master Gunner,
by virtue of having left a Imperial army in Italy, with several pieces of ordinance as my arrears' of pay....rather without permission, so a sea
voyage was a good bit of timing.
My Avatar is an ensign I designed, based on Tudor army ensigns being used in the Low countries at the time, or a bit later.
I do need to clean up the roses, when I have a chance.
Karl