YAR! AVAST!

So, for my birthday (which was last month, you still need to buy me presents), I got a Pirateology Pirate Ship Construction Kit that we sell at work. It's pretty nifty looking. If you remember those old balsa wood dinosaur skeleton kits, then just substitute "pirate ship" for "dinosaur skeleton" and you get the idea.
This is how it comes. It's six sheets of pressed balsa wood parts, as well two sheets of cardstock that have the sails. None of them are labeled. This is important. See that sheet of instructions? It has diagrams of all eight sheets with each part lettered and numbered.
The "instructions" are as follows:
1. Copy the numbers from the sheet onto the parts.
2. Remove all of the parts from their sheets.
3. Match the letters/numbers up and put the ship together.
4. Take a look at the picture on the package if you have any questions.

You can't see it yet, but I've already screwed up the construction. The 20 ribs that make up the hull of the ship are held together by the two planks. The fore and aft decks are supposed to go on before those planks, but I won't discover this until I've got the decks, rails, and masts assembled and in place. Luckily, no glue was involved, saved for the ladder piece that I broke later. :) (That anchor is badass! It's right around this time that we dropped anchor and went and got dinner.)

It's hard to see it because the ship is the same color as the counter, but there is a quarter inch gap between the side rails and the porthole section. This is the mistake from above. :) YAY MASTS!

See the candle in the background? That was bought at the mall when we had dinner. I think it is pumpkin.

And here is the completed body of the ship. It still needs sails and sail rope, but I needed a beer more. So it's on the counter still. YAY BEER!