No... but I lived there for a bit.... in Jolly O'l East Anglia.
I uhhhmmmm aaaahhh ..... used to be pretty heavily involved in the living history/re-enactor scene. One of my websites is still up (though I haven't touched it in over a decade)... if you are into Golden Age of Piracy stuff.... you'd have to be a Gentlemen of Fortune to find it though
Blue Check'd linen has been used for centuries by Sailors/Navies (not all, but a lot). Even WWII Kriegsmarine ship/barracks linens were blue checked. So to me, even though the Vandy maybe a space ship of the future, the blue checked is a nice detail/throwback to the age of sail.... and I doff my floppy pirate hate to the developer.