Action - 1720 - December 19 - Engaging Notorious Pirate

Ships in Action:
British: MC Tigre - Captain Bryan Cook and MC Capriceux - Captain James Raleigh

Pirate : Cursed Blade - Mextli (Aztec named pirate, we didnt get it in the heat of battle)

Action Setup:
We found Mextli prowling for victims near Orleans, and engaged him with weathergage at our side.

The Action Itself:
Mr Cook and I set full sails in order to get close to Mextli, with barshots loaded, Mextli tried to get into a better fighting position before we could get to him. Mr Cook and I got split up, so we were on each side of him, unfortunatly the idea of demasting him backfired, as Mextli held his sails at a reasonable state, which could not be said of our hulls, I were down to half in structure and Mr Cook were about the same, so we had to disengage and decided to run for it, as we were clearly being soundly beaten right now. We set full sails once again, to try and outrun Mextli, but he had made full repair on his sails, and caught us with sterns to him, Mr cook, who were sailing behind me, started to take a heavy stern beating, which would only lead to his ship sinking, he were down to final defence, when we decided to do a desperate starboard maneuver, to get me between Mextli and Mr Cook, it succeeded well, and I had been full repaired, and engaged Mextli in a broadside showdown, Mr Cook got his ship battlefit and started shooting at Mextli's Stern and port, while I stayed at his starboard side, Mextli could see he were starting to loose, and did some heavy maneurvering, and managed to slip past us, and run for it, as his ship were better outfitted for speed, he dissapeared in the Horizon.

The Result:
Win by Pirate fleeing.

Could also be a draw, as he had us on his knees 1 time and we had him.

Lessons Learned:
COMMUNICATE, we didnt do any communication at the start, and it was luck that we both had the same idea of demasting him.. it was first when it really were bad, we started to communicate, but that also resulted in a turn around on the event and we actually turned this into a small victory, by pirate fleeing, so communicate, or else it will go BAD!