Shipwright
Of Wooden Ships & Sailing, Construction, Maintenance, Repair & Rescue.
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I be on the look out for the gems out there that be available but not as well known. Do ye know of one and would like to share ye experiences about it? I especially be looking for someone with experience on the Elissa out of Galveston. Anyone, Anyone?
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The Age of Sail Maritime Alliance is a 501©3 not-for-profit historical and educational organization that was formed in 2008 to help organize and support 18th and early 19th century living history maritime events. The ASMA utilizes period boats and other maritime resources to help teach and portray this facet of our history, and a great emphasis is placed on nautical skills, practical seamanship and safety. Membership in the ASMA is open to all living history maritime impressions from the Seven Years War, the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Anyone interested in joining is encouraged to read the FAQ section of this website. Each year the ASMA sanctions a number…
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-When ship hull copper plating was used? If my memory serves me right there is plating on cutty shark’s hull and (I am not completely sure) HMS Victory’s hull, but how old copper hull plating is?
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I haven't seen it mentioned here yet, so I figured that I'd let everyone here know. The historic schooner Adventuress (1903) had her wheel stolen while she was in port in Olympia, WA on October 7th. She was able to borrow and retrofit a new wheel to continue on her educational sailing schedule. Obviously, for historical reasons, she wants her wheel back and Sound Experience, the non profit organization that runs her, is offering a $100 reward and the promise of no criminal charges filed. This theft hits home a bit for me, as Adventuress was the first boat I ever sailed WAY back in middle school, which led me to volunteering on board her and other tall ships and eventu…
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I didn't see this posted on the site before (did a search and nothing came up). Also, if this is the wrong spot for it (or if I missed it somehow and this is a repost), moderate this as needed. There is a new Documentary on the recently found wreck of Henry Morgan's vessel. It's called "The Unsinkable Henry Morgan": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZhfKpaCZWM
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OK, I was scolded at FTPI last year for calling rope 'rope' and not 'line.' Now I find this in Alexander Hamilton's A New Account of the East Indies (17th - 18th Centuries): "...every Thing in the Ship fast, our Yards lowered as low as conveniently they could be, and our Sails made fast with Coils of small Ropes, besides their usual furling Lines." (Hamilton, p. 485) I take it rope may have been called 'line' when it was attached to the masts and sails (or It may not have been. In fact, I have no idea.) However, he also calls the stuff rope in the same sentence. So I am thinking I was wronged at FTPI, when looking for what was small coils of whatever-you-want-to-call-it…
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Greetings, I am new to the site. For a lecture on family history research I am seeking two images. Line drawings will work fine. I need one of an old sailing ship / ship of the line becalmed on a flat sea, and one of a smiliar ship being pulled by a longboat. Any advice on where to look? I have tried doing google image searches but have not found anything appropriate. Thanks in advance for any assistance Paul
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Once again, i am struggling with the design for my personal flagship. I tried drawing it again tonight, only to realize, that as far as the decks go, what i wanted to do with her design is very difficult to achieve the 'sweet spot' as far as where one of the aft decks end, and another begins, and the bulwarks and rails. I also remembered if would have made the ship a 3rd rate, this sweet spot woul've been achieved... any thoughts? I also don't know if any of you serious re-enacters/festival goers command large ship of the line flagship. i have only ever met two people who do. I'd be fine with commanding one if it's not that uncommon, but if it is, I'm going to have to …
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Yes, it's me and my lack of English technical vocabulary, so I'd google... if I knew what. Therefore, I am asking you instead, please tell me some metal pieces (or fittings, or how they are called) which a tall ship might need after being damaged by a storm... I don;t want elaborate, complicated metal things they would need a chandler's shop for... but rather small, albeit necessary ones which a blacksmith can make. Thank you in advance!
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Hi has anybody made calculations of pirates ship types? (like 45% gaop vessels were sloops, 15 slavers....etc.) my investigation leads me to point that there were most of small sloops, plenty of brigantines and some early schooner in gaop but few bigger slavers like the "Whydah" or QAR. Some pirates in gaop used even warships like Black Bart.
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Captain Kidd's Adventure Galley, brand spanking new out of Deptford, was so leaky that he had to abandon her in Madagascar in 1698. In 1612, Thomas Best's Red Dragon, only a couple of weeks out of port and in calm weather, broke her main yard. Examination showed that the yard was made out of hemlock and was rotten, "which sheweth the badnes of the tree, the want of care in Mr. Burrell [the "great shipbuilder of the day"] and of honestie or skill in Chanlar." During the 1620-21 expedition to Algiers, the English vice-admiral wrote that of his six royal ships, three were completely unfit for sea, "being very laboursome and unable to carry out their lower tier of ordnance…
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Found this and thought it was worth sharing.
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Ahoy all, The Colonial Seaport Foundation is in search of wooden spars to complete the rigging of Luna, our reproduction 18th century Bermuda sloop. In light of recent weather events there may be destroyed boats with wooden masts and booms remaining. We are also looking for stainless steel rigging. The spars we are looking for are a boom 35 feet long- most likely this will be a mast refitted, and a 27 foot bowsprit, again most likely a mast refitted. We can arrange for shipping anywhere on the east coast. If anyone has any leads please let me know. Thanks, Dutch www.colonialseaport.org
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I really want to find some sort of cross-section diagram of what the interior of an 18th century sloop would look like. The closest I've come so far was courtesy of another thread on this forum: https://pyracy.com/index.php?showtopic=12831 Unfortunately the scan is just small enough I can't make out any of the legend text, and there's no indication what book the image was pulled from. Does anyone know? And if not, does anyone know of an alternate source that might have something akin to this that I could browse or buy? You can find all sorts of cross-sections of the big ships, but there seems to be precious little detail available on what a Sloop was like below dec…
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I am doing some research for my next article and I was hoping to enlist the help of some experts and maybe start an interesting topic. The question, then: What were some of the largest pirate ships that we know of and how many decks did they have?
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Hope the crew is alright- Coast Guard responds to vessel in distress 160 miles from hurricane's center PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard is responding to a distressed vessel with 17 people aboard approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras N.C., Monday. Coast Guard Sector North Carolina received a call from the owner of the 180-foot, three mast tall ship, HMS Bounty, saying she had lost communication with the vessel's crew late Sunday evening. The Coast Guard 5th District command center in Portsmouth subsequently received a signal from the emergency position indicating radio beacon registered to the Bounty, confirming the distress and position. An air crew from Coa…
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God Bless them http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1665339
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- Foxe. Has the Golden Hind replica a wheel and if it does have one (like I have seen in some photos), Why? During 16th century there were not ship’s wheels (not until c.1700-1715 when they started to be common in larger ships). Is the reason so simple that it is easier to steer ship with wheel and authenticity was less important than functionality? Btw the ships wheel is often error in movies like Cutthroat Island (which is sets in 1668)... Source of this information: There is plenty so this is definately truth. Here is one source but there is more... http://blog.handcraf...the-ship-wheel/ If some did not know that during even in Gaop wheels were rare..... but man…
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reclaiming a ditty bag and a half of silicon bronze screws from an old wooden boat... these are various lengths and sizes... lags bolts, carriage bolts, and regulatr bolts are in the mix... any boat builders interested ?? lemme know
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i plan on trying to do some woolding on a small mast, i have found some instruction on how go about it. there is one or two things i'm not sure of. the first is the instuctions say to put a leather button under the head of each nail, is the button a washer in shape to keep the rope from working up the nail and freeing itself, or something else? the other is the nailing method as you progress along, my instuctions say "every turn when hoved tight is fastened with a leather button and nail, each nail being regularly below the other to the middle turn, and then above." can anyone break this down for me. thanks, also i don't have an illustration, one would be great.
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slow night at work. i happened up the clips while looking for something else. It's a neat drill, i'd love to be able to run this at an event. Please disregard the coasties safety issues.
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Yesterday I visited the Batavia dockyard and the ship itself. I took a whole bunch of pictures and figured you might wanna see them... Their in my gallery https://pyracy.com/index.php?/gallery/album/555-the-batavia/ So cheers!
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Of the current tall ships that are in operation on the rivers, lakes and seas, which ones would/ could have been seen during the Golden Age of Piracy? I thinking along the lines of the Lady Washington (although I'm not certain she is designed to exhibit the GOAP time frame). Most of the tall ships I have encountered tend to be designed to appear closer the the Napoleonic times.
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I was wondering was fluyts used by Dutch in other places than the Baltic? ( tax avoidance on the Øresund was reason to flutes' odd shape) If someone don't know what the flute is here is nice pic of a model
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