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For pirates who want to prove their mettle, try this. Four people are going to try to recreate Captain Bligh's 4,400 voyage. Bligh had a crew of 18 in a 45-foot, open boat. These guys are trying it with 4 people in a 25-foot, open boat. Mark
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let's list the old girls. add the sites in as we run across them and i'll pin them into one thread. http://www.kalmarnyckel.org/ http://sealionprojectltd.com http://www.santamaria.org/index.php http://www.halfmoon.mus.ny.us/ http://www.tallshipbounty.org/ www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org www.historicships.org (constelation homepage)
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hey, she has been out of the news for a while. last i heard, she was left on the bottom for a while to help keep her intact. does anyone know anything about her? http://sealionprojectltd.com/sealiondirect.html
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from what i understand, the panels that were sewn together to make up a sail started off as about 20" in width due to the width of the loom... my question is.... were all looms about 20" in width as a standard, or were only the looms for eventual sail construction about 20" wide ??? it seems to me that looms could easily have been wider than 20" for any kind of cloth, but for sails, i keep finding 20" widths... if looms were wider than 20", but for sails, they were 20", then why ?? was the 20" wide panels necessary for retaining sail shape ?? or did looms only come in 20" widths ??
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I stumbled across this rental site of interest. Even if you're not in the market the photos are great. http://www.privateermedia.com/Boats/boats.htm Jas. Hook
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What is the opening and covering to cargo hold called? It often looks to be a grate or lattice of wood. I know these can be pulled up for access into the hold so that cargo can be lowered in on ropes. Curious about the historic name for these coverings.
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I don't understand either of these two routes. I understand that you take the trade winds to the West Indies, but aren't the Azores way too far north for the trade winds? I thought the trade winds blew about between 10 and 30 degrees, with the horse latitudes about 30 to 35 degrees, and the prevailing westerlies between 35 degrees and the poles. The Azores are at about 38 degrees North. Shouldn't they be in the westerlies? The detour to Brazil when en route to the Cape of Good Hope also matches with my memory. But the southern trade winds blow from the east and southeast, don't they? Wouldn't they be dead foul for a ship trying to reach the Cape of Good Hope from B…
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Hi, Can anyone help me out with some info on ships and sailing times in 1721? For a writing project I'm working on, I'm trying to figure out the best choice of ships to give a main character, a pirate turned pirate hunter, and to make sure I get the details right. I had the idea that the ship he uses was a warship he'd captured and commandeered for his own uses a few years back (so it could be something from the late 1710s). Whatever model or nationality it needs to be, it needs to have a balance between firepower and speed, and provoke a sense of "Oh f***, we've gotta go up against THAT?" I know sloops were more commonly used by pirates and navies alike, and pirate enga…
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the inlaws called and mentioned that in today's paper, there is an article stating that the whydah exhibit will be coming to the st. louis science center in may.... coooooooooooool !!
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Folks who attended the Hampton Blackbeard Fest last year will remember the red coats that graced us with their presence. They spread out a bit and are now called, I believe, The Naval MAritime Historical Society. Anyhow, I talked to xxxx last week and this is their latest venture. Go guys go!!!! edit* names have been removed till further notice. NORFOLK 4 FEB 2010 - A group of active duty and retired US Navy sailors is planning to cross Chesapeake Bay from Cape Henry to Cape Charles, a distance of 14 miles over open water, in an open boat powered by oar and sail alone. The event is scheduled for May 15 2010 and will be used to raise awareness for environmental issues in …
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The story and info here is very interesting in it's own right. The figurehead originally had a hand outstretched and the other held a nightingale. Being named Jenny and being Swedish I thought this was neet too It's an article and images so I'll just post the link. http://www.swedishnightingale.com/artikel.htm
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1. What is the difference between a jib and a fore staysail? That is, if you had a ship with three triangular sails forward of the foremast, and one person called them (from aft to fore) the inner jib, outer jib, and flying jib, and another person called the same sails the fore staysail, inner jib, and outer jib, is it just a matter of opinion, or is there an objective difference? 2. When were jibs (or fore staysails, if that was what they were first called) first introduced? Harland's Seamanship in the Age of Sail shows the Sovereign of the Seas in 1637 without a jib, and a 1756 warship with a jib. That leaves pretty well the whole GAoP in limbo. Would Morgan's sh…
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I need some historical information, and the knowledgeable people here seem to be the ones to ask. I need to know what would be the minimum crew needed to sail and fight with a 10 gun Bermuda sloop. Also, info on the specific make-up of the crew members would be very useful. Thanks
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On tall ships in the movies, there's always a door at the back of the main deck, in the bulkhead that forms the break of the quarterdeck, that leads back either directly into the captain's cabin or into other compartments. What is the name for that door? I know that doors are traditionally called "hatches" on ships, but calling the door at the back of the main deck the "aft hatch" would probably risk confusion with the cargo hatches cut into the deck itself.
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Can any of you old shellbacks help a sailing novice write a realistic scenario for my novel? What needs to happen in this scene is that the captain makes a disastrous mistake that could destroy the ship, and the ship is only saved by the prompt action of the first mate (thus beginning to show the heroine that her contempt for the mate and attraction to the captain are ill-considered). Any scenario that meets the above criteria will work, but the scenario I had in mind goes like this. The ship is a heavily armed frigate-built East Indiaman-type merchant vessel named the Cynosure. It has twelve sixteen-pounders on the gun deck, twelve more on the main deck, and twelve t…
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http://www.sailtraining.org/documents/ASTAFlyer.pdf?PHPSESSID=d419658c63c1956ba44704831e1b5cce
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Saw this on another board I'm on and thought it might be of interest to some here abouts: From: Damian Siekonic <damian@privateermedia.com> Subject: [FandIWAR] 18th Century Paid Boat Event - "Battle of the Restigouche" July 9-10-11, 2010 To: FandIWAR@yahoogroup s.com Date: Friday, October 30, 2009, 12:35 PM Greetings Everyone, I have just returned from Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada where I attended a planning meeting for the "Battle of the Restigouche" event taking place the weekend of July 9-10-11, 2010. My company has been asked to assist with the programming, and as such have been given the authority to negotiate paid stipends for boats to attend. The…
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Found out today that the replicas of the Nina and Pinta are in my home port o' Pittsburgh, PA for the next week! I walked down from work and took a couple pictures...
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So, I have a foc'sle. and even cooler is that it is inside a reproduction 17th century ship! What I don't have is documentation either written or drawn about what this wonderful little area on the the vessel is supposed to look like. About the vessel, she is a 42 ton square rigged topsail ketch circa the 1670s. She's small, around 75' in overall length and 53' on deck. Used for coastal trading work here in the new world, travelling as far out from Charlestowne as Barbados and as far north as Massachusetts. Now back to the foc'sle, architectually she's not all to large, but has two larboard and two starboard berths and a ladder betwixt them that opens to the forward ha…
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Museum presents documentary about legendary schooner captain This was a great little article about a footnote in history that I felt people here would appreciate. I just wish the film would make it's way to Juneau! Coastie
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Anybody who might be an expert or knowledgeable please contact us helping to identify a wreck
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http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/fire-guts-replica-of-104104.html?bigName=&bigPhotog=&bigCap=Flames+consume+a+replica+of+the+17th-century+flagship+Prins+Willem+in+Den+Helder%2c+northern+Netherlands%2c+early+Thursday%2c+July+30%2c+2009.+Fire+has+destroyed+a+replica+of+the+17th-century+flagship+of+the+Dutch+East+India+Company.+The+three-mast+tall+ship%2c+which+was+built+in+the+1980s%2c+was+moored+at+Holland+Village+in+Nagasaki%2c+Japan%2c+for+many+years+before+it+returned+to+the+northern+Dutch+port+of+Den+Helder+in+2003.+%28AP+Photo%2f+Peter+van+Aalst%2f+Berber+van+Beek%29&bigDeclCap=Flames+consume+a+replica+of+the+17th-century+flagship+Prins+Willem+in+Den+H…
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It would be great if this boat is intact. Plus, if it's displayed in a water tank, it would be really great to see an old shipwreck without all the hassle of diving in deep, cold water. Grand plan for a sunken schooner in Lake Erie Coastie
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_REVOLUTIONARY_NAVAL_MYSTERY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US BOSTON (AP) -- Somewhere along an industrial stretch of river pocked with rotting piers and towering salt piles north of Boston lies the answer to one of the great riddles of the Revolutionary war. Where is the final resting place of the British schooner, the HMS Diana?
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There really isn't a forum dedicated to just watercraft, so I thought I'd try asking here, as well as in the thread in Crowsnest. I have a feller wants to trade a boat for some welding. I really don't need anymore projects right now, but this looks like a solid craft. It is a McKenzie Drift Boat, these were developed in the 1940's for drift-fishing the whitewater of the McKenzie river. They're getting more popular here in Missouri among the trout anglers on our swift rivers. I don't know enough about hull design to decide if I can make her sail without some massive leeboards. I don't have a photo, but did some search on-line and found the general history and specifi…
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