User blog comment:Travis92/(SPOILERS) Retcon in DMTNT/@comment-996391-20170601163042/@comment-996391-20170602153147

1. Theere is no neeed for any woman. There is no '10 year faithfulness rule'. The curse was explained many times in DMC and AWE.

"Davy Jones cannot make port. Cannot step on land but once every ten years."

- Tia Dalma

"The Dead Man's Chest." "What do you know of this?" "Open the chest with the key, and stab the heart. No, don't stab the heart. The Dutchman needs a living heart or there'll be no captain. And if there's no captain, there's no one to have the key."

- Wyvern and William Turner Jr.

"They should be in the care of Davy Jones. That was the duty him was charged with... by the goddess, Calypso. To ferry those who die at sea to the other side. And every ten years... him could come ashore... to be with she who love him... truly. But the man has become a monster." "So he wasn't always... tentacley?" "No. Him was a man... once."

- Tia Dalma and Ragetti

"There was this chest, you see. It's odd. At the time it seemed so important. And a heart. I learned that if you stab the heart, yours must take its place. And you will sail the seas for eternity. The Dutchman must have a captain. Silly thing to die for."

- Weatherby Swann

"If Jones be slain, he who slays him must take his place. 'Captain... Forever. The Dutchman must always have a captain."

- William Turner Sr.

"Let someone else dispatch Jones." "Who? You?" "Death has a curious way of reshuffling one's priorities. I slip aboard the Dutchman, find the heart, stab the beating thing, your father's free from his debt, you're free to be with your charming murderess." "You're willing to cut out your heart and bind yourself to the Dutchman... forever?" "No, mate. I'm free forever. Free to sail the seas beyond the edges of the map. Free from death itself." "You have to do the job though, Jack. You have to ferry souls to the next world. Or end up just like Jones." "I don't have the face for tentacles. But immortal has to count for something, eh?"

- Jack Sparrow and William Turner Jr.

2. Jack had lots of trinkets over the years. It's not so impossible that he would change some of them.

3. You are right. The ship was damaged in OST.