You wonder why piracy has lost its appeal.
After all, it might cost you $78,400 per day to charter a VLCC for a ride from the Middle East to China or $400,000 for an LNG carrier, but a pirate ship for rent on AirBNB costs less than $300 per night.
What a barrrgain!
The four-passenger Jolly Lodger (built 1993) is accepting reservations on the travel website for just $292 per night, with two bedrooms, a kitchen (shouldn’t that be a galley, matey?) and a kayak that could be useful in scouting out targets for pillaging.
The houseboat is docked in Callao, Virginia, after Richmond entrepreneur Lauren DeMarco and her husband Kellen purchased the vessel earlier this year, according to Axios Richmond.
“This will either be the dumbest thing we’ve ever done, or the smartest thing we’ve ever done,” she told the Washingtonian magazine. “But we’ll always have a cool story about the time that we bought a pirate ship.”
The vessel first made headlines in August when “Captain Dan” Corder put what was then the “Surrender the Booty” on the market for $49,000.
But the DeMarcos had to open their wallets further. As they puzzled over where to dock the vessel, Corder suggested they buy his friend’s dockside house as a solution, Axios reported.
They now also own the five-bedroom Crab Pot House, so named because it is the home of Benjamin Franklin Lewis, who is credited with inventing the crab pots that allow for easy capture of the delicious crustaceans.
Crab pot fans can also rent the house on AirBNB.
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