Bowditch Island (Emerald)

"Bowditch Island" redirects here. For other uses, see Bowditch Island (disambiguation).

Bowditch Island
Bowditch Island on the Emerald Ocean
Large island in the Stork Archipelago
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Information
Controlled by	Without Warning
Governed by	Grumbles
Navy color	Tan
Pets
This island has no pets on it.
Location
Bowditch Island Hinga Island Scrimshaw Island Scurvy Reef (Osprey Archipelago)
Outpost Medium Large Colonized Uncolonized Purchaseable chart Unpurchaseable chart

Bowditch Island is a large island located in the Stork Archipelago. There are three known routes from this island: Hinga Island, Scrimshaw Island, and an inter-archipelago route to Scurvy Reef in the Osprey Archipelago.

Natural resources

This island spawns iron, nettle, and wood.

Buildings

The naming theme of Bowditch is all things "Monty Python", including references to the British comedy group's actors, skits, songs, and movies.

Apothecary

Go Oil Your Beards (bazaar)

Happy Little Apothecary (upgraded)

The Herb Nerd (upgraded)

The Jordanian Apothecary (upgraded)

Keeps The Doctor Away (upgraded)

Painted Python (upgraded)

Pure Octane (upgraded)

Rogue Potions (upgraded)

Rose Elixir (upgraded)

Salves of Silly Persons (upgraded)

Scum-Be-Gone Spiced Rum (upgraded)

She's a Witch (upgraded)

Spiced Rum (upgraded)

Turn A Blind Dye (upgraded)

Bank

Happy Little Treasury (upgraded)

Commodities market

Happy Little Market (upgraded)

Distillery

Rum Away (bazaar)

An Unladen Swallow (upgraded)

Baby Drinks (upgraded)

The Beer Necessities (upgraded)

Bugger for the Bottle (upgraded)

Drunk (Upgraded)

Drunken Sailor (upgraded)

Handles & Heroes (upgraded)

Happy Little Rum (upgraded)

The Holy Ale (upgraded)

The Holy Grail (upgraded)

The Jordanian Distillery (upgraded)

Killer Rabbit Brewery (upgraded)

The Mashed Potato (upgraded)

Ministry of Swilly Walks (upgraded)

Night Out (upgraded)

Rogue Rum (upgraded)

Rum From Stein Twenty-four (upgraded)

Rum Riders (upgraded)

Senga Rums (Upgraded)

Skelly Rum (upgraded)

Estate agent

Happy Little Real Estate (upgraded)

Furnisher

The Dreaded Three Bedded Knight (bazaar)

Artisanal Woodworks (upgraded)

Baby Furnisher (upgraded)

Latin Furniture (upgraded)

Woodshop (upgraded)

House

Aural Shacks (right-facing shack)

Castle Arrrrrrrrrrggghh (left-facing villa)

Cottage Cleese Shop (left-facing cottage)

Doctor in the Row House (right-facing row house)

Floating Circus (right-facing pirate hall)

Idle Estates (left-facing estate)

It's Only a Mansion (right-facing mansion)

Live Organ Townhouses (left-facing townhouse)

Spamalot (right-facing gallery)

Swamp Castle (right-facing manor)

What the Cabins (right-facing cabin)

Inn

The Black Knight is Inn-vincible (upgraded)

Ironmonger

Furnace Moore (bazaar)

Arsenal (upgraded)

Balls for English Kniggits (upgraded)

The Balls of Brian (upgraded)

Balls To The Walls (upgraded)

Big Baller (upgraded)

Boom Lead Shot (upgraded)

Bows And Cannonades (upgraded)

Bring Out Your Lead (upgraded)

Cannonballs Do Migrate (upgraded)

Cutlass (upgraded)

The Dadao Parrot (upgraded)

Foil Me Once, Shame On You (upgraded)

Gold Monger (upgraded)

Hammered (upgraded)

Happy Little Swords (upgraded)

Hephaestus's Hammer (upgraded)

Holy Balls (upgraded)

Holy Chalice (upgraded)

Holy Foil (upgraded)

Ironic Humour

The Jolly Steel Co (upgraded)

The Jordanian Steel (upgraded)

Knight's Blade (upgraded)

Knives of Ni (upgraded)

Life of Balls (upgraded)

My Bad Balls (upgraded)

Phoenix Fire (upgraded)

Rogue Iron (upgraded)

Rusty & Trusty (upgraded)

Shoot Some More, Shoot Some More (upgraded)

This Falchion Is No More

Triumph of the Black Knight (upgraded)

Watery Tart Sword Distribution (upgraded)

Zero Shots Taken (upgraded)

Palace

Happy Little Palace (upgraded)

Shipyard

Happy Little Ships (bazaar)

Biggus Shippus (upgraded)

Brig Burger (upgraded)

The Flying Dutchman (upgraded)

Happy Little Frigs (upgraded)

Happy Little Masts (upgraded)

Jolly Good Ships (upgraded)

Prydwen (upgraded)

Ships That Say Ni (upgraded)

'Tis But A Scratch On These Ships (upgraded)

What the Frig (upgraded)

Tailor

Help, Help I'm Being Redressed (bazaar)

Fit on My Fez (upgraded)

I'm a LumberJacket and I'm OK (upgraded)

The Monkey Tailor (upgraded)

Persimmon Dream (upgraded)

Romans Sew Home (upgraded)

She Turned Me Into A Suit (upgraded)

Weavery

Bring Out Your Thread (bazaar)

Blessed Be The Weavemakers (upgraded)

Happy Little Threads (upgraded)

Happy Little Looms (upgraded)

How Not to be Seam

I Am Not a Loomy (upgraded)

Killer Weaving (upgraded)

Queef Thread (upgraded)

The Silent Mary (upgraded)

The Weaving of Life (upgraded)

Weaving Shrubberies (upgraded)

Dusted buildings

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Alpha (upgraded distillery)

Armament Clinic (ironmonger)

The Black Night (upgraded inn)

Biggus Briggius (upgraded shipyard)

Briggles, Fetch the Cushions (upgraded shipyard)

The Brig Side of Life (upgraded shipyard)

Bring out your Dye (upgraded Apothecary)

Bull Shot (upgraded ironmonger)

Burning Witches (apothecary)

The Christmas Workshop (upgraded Furnisher)

Chuck Farthing Circumbendibus (upgraded shipyard)

The Colonial (upgraded shipyard)

The Comfy Chair (furnisher)

The Dirty Falch (upgraded ironmonger)

Distiller Rabbit of Carbs'nGrog (upgraded distillery)

Do Not Adjust Your Balls (upgraded ironmonger)

Fish and Ships License (upgraded shipyard)

Forge of Eternal Peril (upgraded ironmonger)

The Golden Age of Baghlah (shipyard)

Hold My Rum (upgraded distillery)

The Holy Hand Frigate (upgraded shipyard)

Holy Rum Grenade of Antioch (Distillery)

Hypocrisy Apothecary (upgraded Apothecary)

I Drink, Therefore I Am (upgraded distillery)

If She Whisks The Same As A Duck (upgraded Apothecary)

Interesting Falches (upgraded ironmonger)

It's Swell To Have a Scimmy (upgraded iron monger)

I've got two Legs and Lacquer (upgraded furnisher)

The Knights Who Say Baghlah (upgraded shipyard)

Knock on Wood (upgraded furnisher)

Lady of the Rumless Lake(upgraded Distillery)

Lancelots Lances (upgraded ironmonger)

Lemon Cutter (upgraded shipyard)

Life of Iron (upgraded ironmonger)

Long Nasty Pointed Pleats (tailor)

Lyin' King (distillery)

The Mastiah (upgraded shipyard)

Monty Dhowthon (upgraded shipyard)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (upgraded shipyard)

My Barrels Explode With Delight (furnisher)

My Hovercraft is Full of Rum (upgraded distillery)

The Naughty Chemist (apothecary)

Norwegian Flue (upgraded ironmonger)

Philosophers' Pub (upgraded distillery)

Pining For The Forges (upgraded ironmonger)

Redneck Sweat Shop (upgraded weavery)

Rum (upgraded distillery)

Rum and Soldiers (upgraded distillery)

Rum for your Life (distillery)

Self Defence (upgraded ironmonger)

Shoppe Of Armaments (upgraded iron monger)

The Shroud of Turin (upgraded weavery)

Sit on My Balls (upgraded ironmonger)

Spice of Brian (upgraded distillery)

Supreme Executive Cannonballs (upgraded ironmonger)

Tim The Decanters (Distillery)

We Demand A Haberdashery (upgraded tailor)

Whizzo Quality Ship Assortment (upgraded shipyard)

Witch Village (Apothecary)

Your Father Smelt of Elderberries (apothecary)

History

Bowditch Island was originally located on the Sage Ocean. In the middle of the eastern rock wall surrounding the forest in the middle bears the inscription reading "This island were fashioned by Belgarion."

Bowditch is named for navigation pioneer Nathaniel Bowditch.

There used to be shipyard shoppes entitled Chuck Farthing Circumbendibus and The Colonel, however, these have since dusted or been renamed.

Blockades

Bowditch I, 2007-06-02: Hardcore Explorers colonized the island in a four-round sinking blockade against Eternal Glory and Honor Above All.

Bowditch II, 2007-11-24: Hardcore Explorers defended against Raving Notion in a 3 round sinking blockade.

Bowditch III, 2007-12-08: Hardcore Explorers defended against Raving Notion in another 3 round sinking blockade.

Bowditch IV, 2008-03-29: Undeclared took control of the island in a 3 round non-sinking blockade.

Bowditch V, 2008-04-12: Undeclared defeat the attack of Azarbad the Great and his flag The All-Consuming Flame in a four round sinking blockade.

Bowditch VI, 2008-04-26: Undeclared again defeat the attack of Azarbad the Great and his flag The All-Consuming Flame in a three round sinking blockade. The BK still had one strength left at the end of the blockade.

2008-04-29 Bowditch was transferred to Hardcore Explorers by Undeclared.

Bowditch VII, 2008-05-03: Back to Basics take control of the Island from Hardcore Explorers in a four round non-sinking blockade.

Bowditch VIII, 2008-06-14: The island was successfully defended from the attack of Shadows Of Sage in a three round sinking blockade.

Bowditch IX, 2008-08-24: Good Grief took control of the island in a three round sinking blockade.

Bowditch X, 2008-08-30: Hardcore Explorers took control of the island in a three round non-sinking blockade.

Bowditch XI, 2008-12-20: The island was successfully defended from the attack of Illium Eternae in a three round non-sinking blockade.

Bowditch XII, 2009-02-14: Dirty Deeds took control of the island in a three round non-sinking blockade.

Bowditch XIII, 2009-03-01: The island was successfully defended from the attack of Wild Twisted Fun in a five round sinking blockade.

Bowditch XIV, 2009-03-21: Shadows Of Sage took control of the island in a four round sinking blockade.

Bowditch XV, 2009-04-18: The island was successfully defended from the attack of Gretchen Goldfang and her flag Jinx in a five round sinking blockade.

Bowditch XVI, 2009-05-02: Good Grief took control of the island in a three round sinking blockade.

Bowditch XVII, 2009-05-30: Good Grief successfully defended the island in a three round blockade against No Parking.

Bowditch XVIII, 2009-08-22: Good Grief successfully defended the island in a five round sinking blockade against Black Veil.

Bowditch XIX, 2009-12-20: Blades of Sage won the island in a three round non-sinking blockade against Good Grief.

Bowditch XX, 2010-01-17 Blades of Sage successfully defend the island in a four round non-sinking blockade against No Parking.

Bowditch XXV, 2013-11-17: Proud To Love won the island in a three round sinking blockade against Illusion.