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I just got back from Cozumel. It was a beautiful trip. Not sure if there is any pirate history there, but great diving.
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I'm in Southern California and I am so jealous of a friend of mine who's tall ship sailing right now. I was wondering if anyone knew how I can get aboard a tall ship for a week or two? Where I can go? I know about the LA Maritime Institute, but I wondered if they'd let me aboard one of their "youth" programs. Perhaps this is a question better suited for the Tall Ships festival next month. :) Oh well, any help is appreciated. Captain Wolfy Wench
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Yup, we're back from our week-long excursion to the East Coast. Our original plan was to plow through the land-locked states from Milwaukee to the Hampton Roads area in Virginia, and then toodle southward to our final destination of St. Mary's Georgia. I started off the day of the trip making a last-minute run to the bookstore to get some reading material for m'self and the missis. Many thanks to all those who posted their recommendations - alas, none of the top-picks were to be found, so I was left with just my wits and luck to pick an appropriate book. I ended up getting her "The Sea Wife" by Holly Cook, which I'm told turned out to have a decent story, though just a h…
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Just returned home from a 7 day cruise in the eastern Caribbean. Hit Little Stirup Cay, St. Thomas and St. Maarten. While I was only able to spend a few hours on each of the Islands it was incredibly fun! Anyone else enjoy a cruise or two?
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I'm going on two back to back cruises on the S/S Norway on the week of Septembe 21 and 28. The ship stops in Philipsburg, St. Maartin as well as St. Thomas, and I'm wondering if anyone here may know of any locations of Piratical interest that I should try to see during the 8 hours I'm in those ports? [On the side nite, I wanted my first cruise to be on a tallship, but a regular steamship cruise liner will suffice. LOL.] Also, BTW, if anyone else is going on that cruise on either of the two weeks I'm going, shoot me a line, so we can meet up and share a pint of rum. LOL. Morick Towain [Edit: Oops. I made some errors, including spelling and what one of the ports I'm …
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Greetings mates, Me wife & I be going to Curacao in late March, and I be wondering if anyone in this lot has ever been there. If so, what highlights to see & do, and what to avoid. Thankee kindly !
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Finally, this pirate will get to go on a cruise. Was supposed to go on the Norway last September, but the ship's boiler blew up in May of last year. Then, we were going to go on the Rapsody of the Seas, which had a port call in Key West, with several options for tallship sailings as excursions. That one fell through. Finally, it looks like I'm going on the Carnival Elation going out of Galevston on the week of February 8. I was looking through the shore excusrion lists that Carnival has on their website, and found one that REALLY cought my attention in Cozumel: "Caribbean Pirates Lobster Dinner Cruise". It looks like the ONLY piratical themed shore excursion on the entir…
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Dante's is a wonderful experience - a fondue restaurant where in one section you can dine inside a ship's hull over a pool of alligators, in another you can listen to a live jazz band, in another saddle up to a ship's bar, in another area the motif is of a port town... truly a pyrate pleaser. It was darker and moodier (a little better) but then burned... so it's been reconstructed/renovated, and they did a great job. Check it out next time you're in Atlanta... http://www.dantesdownthehatch.com
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In my many years on the ocean, have have been to many places and seen many interesting sights. The Admiral and I are currently landlocked,(but not for long) I want to find the ocean locations members have been to. My personal ports of call include St Lucia, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Cancun, Bahama, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, Harbor of NY Cape Ann, Ports of New Hampshire. In all of these ports, I have spent time under the sea searching for my gold lost in a previous time.
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Well, I just got back from my cruise on the Disney Wonder... and by "just got back", I be meaning some time last week. The entire journey, including the drive from D.C. down to Fla, was amazing. We stopped over at Myrtle Beach for a night. We left in the pre-dawn hours and our GPS took us on a strange and somewhat scary adventure through the coastal back roads of South Carolina. You know in movies how you see a dark scary swamp with lots of spanish moss and water all around and then there's the one run down shack sitting by itself...? And then some guy in a top hat and his face painted like a skull come out? Yah, we saw that place. A few times. Seemed to keep going…
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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/06/12/yachting.quiz/index.html Well, do you have the Ocean Sailor's Attitude? Could you do it? Lets see wot yer made of!
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Yes, I need to know how many months (average) building a ship lasted in the Age of Sail... I know it might depend on the ship's size, but let's say a frigate... or a sloop of war... something average.
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Advice and suggestions for a trip to the DR.
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want some time to relax with yer mates er take a rest from civilization... ye be wantin ta go to tortugas, ye gots good scuba thar! plus ye can see the fort up close an personal. Hell, i even heard the ole timer give a belly of a laugh(ye'll know who i be talkin of when ye get thar) really tho, good vacation spot
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So, I have a work obligation which will take me to Petra and Amman, Jordan, and then to Cairo, Egypt. Yes, I will try to get to the Treasury and along the Siq in Petra; and I certainly intend on getting within focal range of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx (Ahhh... I have been inside buildings even older!). And I totally promise to post some photos here upon my return. But, any suggestions from the Pirate crowd? I will have precious little free time to sight-see, but I will be frustrated beyond belief if someone out there knows of a Jordanian or Egyptian pirate connection and does not reveal it to me before my trip. I am aware of all the touristy must-see stuff (alth…
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https://editions.covecollective.org/place/execution-dock Execution Dock Execution Dock was the site of a scaffold in Wapping, London, in the modern borough of Tower Hamlets. It was historically used to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers. The last executions were in 1830. In London Labour and the London Poor edition: Phase 1 Of the Mud-Larks. (Volume 2): "Execution Dock to the lower part of Limehouse Hole, there are 14 stairs or landing-places, by which t…
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A group of us are going to head to the Pumphouse on June 12th in full pirate garb and eat & drink out on the deck. 9PM Anyone is welcome to join us and of course if you show up in something less then pirate garb, we'll toss you into the river!
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Ok I need help here. If I can't get help here please direct me to somewhere else. I am looking at repairing a very old and neglected Dolphin SR sailboat. I have to get the top and bottom molds apart. How would I do this without causeing more damage?
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I just purchased a Fortune 30 cutter here in Alaska (30' LOD, 33' 6" LOA, 10' 4" Beam, 4' Draft). She's a pretty little fiberglass cruising boat with a seperate aft cabin. I love the look of wood, but in this climate, it's a pain and very costly to maintain. So, I settled on a fiberglass hull with classic looking lines. To me, she looks a little like a coastal or fishing sloop from the early 1800s. But with the added safety of a 20hp inboard. Currently, her name is Pacific High 1, but I'm looking to change that to Sanctioned Mistress. Yes, I know it's supposedly bad luck to change a boat name, but Pacific High just doesn't suit me. I'm a good enough sailor to deal…
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Here we be on the new ( new to me) boat, made sail and only used the trolling motor to ramp out....storm blew in. Now I just need to name the boat!! She's a 1972 Macgregor V-21...21 foot long, sleeps 4 (gotta learn to spoon!) 24 foot mast and moves along quite nice! And yupper, I flew the colors!!
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For many months after not getting into the schools I applied for I've been searching for something to do, and I decided the ideal thing would be some kind of volunteer job that would allow me to learn scuba diving and boating, in some warm country where people speak English, while preferably doing some kind of environmental care work, and if possible not having to pay a fortune for it. Sounds nice doesn't it? The problem was that I didn't know where to look for such a thing, and the ones I found that somewhat matched my ideal criteria were all in loverly places like the Caribbean, which sadly does cost a fortune to go to. However, the new year brought new hope. I'm no…
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Yo Ho Ho...Can't wait to go!!! I be goin' to the Folrida keys in April. I must say that I'm as excited as a shark in a chum dump! Any a ye mates got any pointers fer me and me bride? We be drivin' the land tug and throwin' camp along the way. (cheaper that way) All yer info will be greatly appreciated! If yer along the way, maybe we can meet up for a pint!
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My best friend and I are throwing around the idea of a road trip sometime this winter. We'd like to go somewhere in Florida. She's been before (but not since she was 13) and I've never been further south than Virginia. Where would you good pirates recommend that two 26 year olds wouldn't be gett'n themselves killed? I want to go somewhere near the beach with a fun nightlife.
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Ifn any o' ye are goin' ter be in the neighborhood o' Rhode Island this Saturday mornin, there be somethin' goin on in Jamestown wot I think I should alert ye to. There's this race, and the rules are that ye have 2 hours te build yer vessel outta non marine materials on the town beach, then launch it and sail it on a downwind course. Tis hysterical! THere even be a prize fer worst example o' naval architecture. While it don't necessarily be piratical, tis all abou' creativity, so's ye can make it as piratical as ye want....
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I had to tell about this, if anyone is near Holland or travels there by chance, there will be a huge event of 4 days in Den Helder with 70 ships. The largest in the world and the ones just below there as well as historical ships etc will be there. Here's an English discriptian of the event: http://www.thetallshipsraces2008denhelder....t.aspx?tabid=89 And here are the ships: http://www.thetallshipsraces2008denhelder....71/Default.aspx I'll be posting pics for sure, I'll be going two days..when they arrive (ships in full sail) and when i visit them. I've got a camera with 10x OPTIAL zoom now so it should work
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