A retired carpenter from New Brunswick recently utilized his tradesmanship—and some free time afforded by the pandemic—to build a pirate ship from an old boat and salvaged furniture. Bob Winslow took eight months to build the ship before recently setting sail on her maiden voyage at Skiff Lake in June. The boat, which he named “Menacing Manner,” drew its inspiration from a 13-inch model which he’d bought two years earlier. The mock-up represented the Mayflower, an bygone ship that once carried some of Bob’s ancestors to North America in 1620. He purchased the $5 model at a secondhand store to serve as a reminder of his heritage, before curiosity inspired him to make his own ship based on its likeness. “I would also like to add that it is built out of two old beds, water beds that I got from people’s scrap,” said Bob in a YouTube video posted on …