To fail is just OK for most if it happens just once in a while, but for a Pirate just once can be the rope and a sort drop and stop.

Life in jail as a Pirate

When you fix the boat and think you are ready to sail you always find one more thing that has to be fixed, and it is never easy. 

When your a great pirate others want to be you, and they use your name to take from others, that would be OK if I got a share. The problem is all I get is more people wanting to hang me...