"Bananas! Bananas!" he yelled at me. "How stupid can you be?"
This was the captain yelling at me as he saw my packed lunch as I opened it after sunbathing on his old-style sailing ship. I was on holiday somewhere hot and had decided to take a days sailing on an old style brigantine - the sort of ship a pirate might have sailed. For a bondage kinkster like me it was like a second heaven to be surrounded by miles of rope, rope to climb, rope to pull, rope tied in knots and all that in a setting of old and seasoned timber.
I had nearly cried earlier when I learned that as I was the only guest they were going to cancel the cruise. Fortunately it did not take much of an additional "contribution" to crew funds to persuade then to take me for a trip, albeit maybe shorter than usual.
With this settled, we set off. I looked around the ship, felt the wind blow my hair and the warmth of many male eyes burning my skin. This increased when I stripped to my bikini and settled on a flat area towards the bow and closed my eyes to sunbathe. With my eyes closed I felt the breeze caress my body and heard the wind tease the sails. As I was feet first, so to speak, I also felt the whispy wind fingers run up the inside of my legs and evaporate on contact with the crotch of my swimwear. This was tanatalisingly real, yet ephemeral.
I knew that while the crew (six, I think) busied themselves the also watched me closely.
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At around noon I took out my packed lunch and that was when all hell let loose. I had just peeled the banana when the captain screamed at me. He continued shouting that bringing a banana on a ship was the height of bad luck and that it was a crime that needed paying for. As he and the crew crowded me, he gave me two choices. The first was to leave the ship immediately, but as we were a mile or so from shore this did not seem like a good idea. The second was to accept his judgement and to "pay" the crew "dues".
His eyes and tone suggested that I not mess with him, else the options might well shrink to one.....and I was not ready for a long swim.
"I accept your judgement and will pay my dues," I heard myself say rather meekly, and with this four crew members picked me up and carried me to the capstan.
This is the large wooden post into which bars can be inserted for men to push on as they pull up the anchor or possibly a heavy sail. I was planted stomach down atop the capstan, bare wood on bare flesh and my arms and legs stretched as if in a star. The men then inserted the bars under my arms and legs and I was tied using salty, smelly rope taken from the racks at the side. I was not just tied, but each limb was bound as if in a rope sleeve along its length, encasing limb and wooden bar, ankle to thigh, wrist to bicep. I was helpless, scared and loving it. I had only dreamed of being restrained in such conditions and now a piece of fruit had been the trigger.