William Brand

Welcome aboard! Raise a glass!

Thank you? heh. We're working with Rob on some custom lanterns for the Fort. These will be modified with a fe French artistic touches and color. Anyone wishing to donate can send $20 and receive one of the old, stock Pyracy patches in thanks. We've had three large donations so far and we're putting in lantern orders this week. The new lanterns will be unique to the fort, so there's no confusion about who owns what when we leave. Coincidently, participants are highly encouraged to mark the bottom of their lanterns with personal identifiers Thank you! It's like we come up for reasons to look things up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_gun

If someone wants to pay me to go to an event in Morocco, I'l go in chains.

Thank you. Thank you. I don't mind any redundancy in conversations on these details. It helps with information assurance. It's all good information. We should have plenty of room to accommodate the 'gross' use of your camp footprint. It's good to have lots of shade options against the expected heat.

Pyracy Pub Gathering 2024.

Please send me your tent footprints as you have them. Please include guideline space and awnings. There should be plenty of room, but it's good to know what will be in the mix.

I got a little light headed and giddy at the idea of an actual Watch Dog flag. Let me mull that over a bit. There are many more things we could use before that specific thing. Especially for Massacre Island. I'll send you a message about that soon.

"Where the hell is the Captain's Ste...?" Ah. Welcome back. It's strange to think that there will be three crew members of the 'Dog at Massacre Island. Long live the Dogs of War!

More pics!

Relentless! There will be so much seating.

More close-ups are in order.

Let us know what you need for clothing. Especially specific sized items like shoes. We'll help you watch for deals and finds.

Seconded.

As it stands, we currently have the largest crew presence at the event, which works well in keeping with its origins. We have so many crew members arriving from so many places. Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Ohio, Florida, and more.

It's great to see the techniques, trial attempts, variety and everything else acquainted with this project. Loving the images!

Just off the coast of Alabama on Dauphin Island.

We have 'elbow' room. You should definitely bring the 'kitchen/lean-to' tent for the shade. It's going to be warm. We want a careening/trade/open market kind of set-up. Think of the overall camp as a temporary set-up for the purposes of trading with the French ashore. the use of rough poles and local materials combined with loose cargo canvas and the like. Tents thrown in. We're avoiding unnecessary set dressing like ship wheels, skulls, etc. Just the pragmatism of sailors ashore and goods to be sold. We welcome bales, barrels, sailcloth, hampers, casks, etc. Goods and supplies.

Just a few details by way of update. We can confirm a few of the creature comforts at Massacre Island. First, there are bathrooms inside the fort. With the addition of attendees we're going to chase after additional portable toilets for our use outside the fort as well. This will cover the needs of attendees arriving early for set-up and break-down after. Second, there will be showers available within a short walking distance of the fort, so you'll be able to wash off some of the sun and sand of the event while staying there. Potable water spigots will be available inside and outside of the fort. There will be a limited number of cookfires, but the main camps will have them for cooking and atmosphere. We should also have access to the original fort bakery for making period breads.

I was genuinely surprised to see corn and rice rank up so high in account mentions. Barley and oats were mentioned much less than expected. Thank you for the details on these.

And...before anyone asks...there will be 'gate duty' whether they ask us to do one or not.

The badly stained ones make for good shirts and slops.

No. No adulting. We need more pictures.

We have enough members of the Mercury crew planning on attendance that we should have a conversation about our crew presence there. For example, who is bringing what...?

Excellent subject and specifically relevant to projects being discussed all over. Thank you!

It's been a number of years since we hosted an event and Massacre Island has been extremely generous in their offerings to host us at Fort Gaines. Because of this, we're setting a high mark for kit, clothing and campsites. We're hoping to make this one of several 'must attend' events, now and every year to come, so we're going to ask that attendees bring their best. This is not meant to imply any specific requirements that would keep you from attending. It's more about celebrating life at sea, cooking, black powder, stories, and all things of the Golden Age. We're primarily looking for streamlined and pragmatic set-ups for camps and kit. The kind of stuff that made Fort Taylor what it was in terms of atmosphere. Things we'd like to see... No modern tents. Just canvas tents. This can come in the form of makeshift careening camps of loose canvas, oars, rope, rough cut poles, etc. You are also welcome to bring standard wedge tents, bell end tents, etc. Costumes that err on the side of the day-to-day sailors, soldiers and townspeople. We'd love to see a variety of impressions from land and sea, i.e., sailors, marketplace impressions, various classes from poor to wealthy, soldiers of the age. etc. Cannons, muskets, swivel guns, pistols, boarding axes, cutlasses, sailor knives, etc. are all welcome. Some safety restrictions and peace-tying will likely be in effect, but we'll have some latitude not afforded at state run parks. Good mood lighting in the form of tin and ship lanterns. We're hoping to steer away from obvious modern lighting, even the tea lights, but we would like every attendee to have a good lantern for after hours safety and events. We'd like to avoid flying dozens of store bought flags and limit it to the flags of crews in attendance. We don't need a lot of skulls, thrones, and ship wheels, but would rather see very basic camps that are openly inviting for attendees. Especially camps with little details like tool boxes, cargo, etc. Stuff that invites questions about the age. We'll be sharing ideas for all of this. We want to help everyone with their set-ups, trades, fabrication, purchases and any other needs.