User blog comment:Dandalore/Shirahoshi: friend or foe?/@comment-1463082-20110228040337

It makes a moderate amount of sense, and you know they will get a new crew mate this saga as has been the pattern, but also as has been the pattern only in the East Blue saga were they were recruiting crewmates every which way and Whitebeard war saga where they were seperated almost immediately after that.

Anyway, Shirahoshi would be useless to the straw hats. too big for the thousand sunny and the waters are too full of peril for her to swim along side the ship.