User:Barnacle bill the sailor man/sandbox

Personality
Barnacle bill the sailor man is a man who is interested in sailing. He also enjoys messing with people subtly. His favorite topic is the Africa Squadron which tickles him pink since the squadron was made up of mostly sloops, which are his favorite type of ship due to their bow shape which is not usual to the period. His favorite fruit is the mandarin orange due to it's tang. He lives in an apartment trading stocks for a living after his boatswain venture foundered in the waves in the North Atlantic. He is a very pessimistic man, he acts this way because of the failed business operation.

Childhood
Barnacle Bill's childhood started in 1991 on June 17 to Daniel and Danielle Schleisinghauser. His early days found him nearly drowning in a particularly deep tide pool on the shores of Hatteras Island, after this blunder he realized that his true calling wasn't a sailor, but a boatswain instead, he spent his mid childhood learning the parts of ships, particularly large container ships. As soon as he was able to, he used funds from his college fund to pay a former merchant marine boatswain to teach him boatswain things.

Golden age of Barnacle Bill.
He claimed this boatswain school thing counted as experience and it actually worked, he was employed on a tanker called the "GOLDEN STAR" which needed a boatswain. After failing to close the anchor hatch during a storm as they lost the bolts to close it, water began pouring in causing severe flooding in the lower compartments. After an hour of nearly foundering, the listing became too great and a great wave came over the deck which made the captain order the crew to abandon ship. The boatswain was the 2nd to last person to get off, just before the captain. Thankfully, a nearby coast guard cutter rescued the crew and took them to a coast guard base near his hometown. After the sinking, he used his money to buy a small apartment in a suburb in Raleigh. He lives there currently and plans to buy a house and get a reliable job.