User blog comment:J Fan/Before going On Stranger Tides/@comment-3574741-20121227230731

Well I'll start with the easiest one, Gibbs.

I believed Gibbs stayed in Tortuga and wrote his own  guidelines. He was bent on retiring from piracy (as says in the book) but then changed his mind to find Jack.

Jack's new look is a bit more complicated. The last time the audience sees Jack before OST is in his dinghy. Perhaps by being under the constant Caribbean, Jack's hair became to become a bit blonde. As for his clothes and trinkets, I can't imagine even Jack Sparrow surviving in a dinghy for long. Jack must've been picked up by a passing ship. With having no money on him, Jack must've traded his own clothes and trinkets to make the sailors to save him. Now on land, Jack stole himself some other clothes and trinkets but not before reciving a nasty cut on his cheek from whoever he was trying to steal from.

As for Barbossa, I can only guess that England was very desperate. Perhaps the Brits were betting that the pirate, now older, decided to reconcile for his sins with service to the crown.

Perhaps in Blackbeard and Angelica's case could mirror Don Rafael and Esmeralda or  Angelica, not wanting to live a normal life after meeting Jack Sparrow and decidied to find her father.

What do you think, mates?