Captain Jim

And on that subject, don't forget events that are not pyraty, such as history timeline events. I have gone to the Collier County Museum timeline for two years now and I am the only pyrate. I'm filling a hole where there was no war going on. You'll find that timelines have a tendency to be conflict-oriented and so leave out the GAoP. They feed me and sometimes provide a small stipend to cover gas and whatnot and I get to camp on the grounds with like-minded re-enactors from other time zones. It can be very interesting and put one in touch with others doing different stuff, like Buffalo Soldiers. Or the WWII guys with a (real, operative) Sherman tank. Consult your local museum to see what they do.

Happy Birthday! Much more pyratin' to ye in the next year.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Girolamo Maltraversi (1698–1730) Date: 1700–1730 Culture: Italian, Rome Medium: Silver Dimensions: L. 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)

Happy Birthday Michelle!

Oh, good Lord, how many hands do ye need to man the Hat?! I'm so gonna steal yer coat...

Oh, I think the presence of chickens makes it PC.

But Mission, meals taken in Taverns are period. At least until you get to the door, anyway. Just be all 17th Century on your way there and back.

Finally got a chance to read the web version. Excellent work, as always. It's one of those things that make the event what it is.

Happy Birthday to you and your musical kin.

Huzzah, mate. Hawaii is a great posting, so I hear. Good place to go visit, too.

Very cool.

Very interesting. I would have thought shipping something with so much "empty space" would have been unprofitable. Sheet tin would be easier to ship to a local tinsmith to fashion an oven out of.

May you have a good, long run.

Happy birthday Mr. Bagley.

I haven't yet pulled the trigger on a tin kitchen but am leaning toward the Dixie, simply on price point. I will post a review if I get one. As for camp, indeed board reflectors would be very accurate and I have used them in Scout camp situations. Aromatic wood (cedar or fruitwood) adds to the flavor of the dinner. They work, but not as well as a reflector. Decreases cooking time by a lot, or so I'm told and have read.

Sorry, that should be Dixie Tinworks http://www.dixietinworks.com/ .

Very nice, and I do like the cut-out for the spit so one doesn't have to learn juggling to remove dinner. $395 though. (Pssst! Dixie Tinsmith, $130. No cut-out for spit. Slightly different dimensions. Shhhh...get yours before they find out and raise the price!)

Planking scarfs are very common, especially if the ship/boat is double-planked as was often the case. Deck beams, not so much. I cannot recall ever seeing any that were not then supported in some way. I have seen sistered beams (beams side-to-side and bolted together). It will be interesting to see what other support the repaired Morgan beams will receive. Here's a decent picture of a hooked scarf, this one with wedges to tension the whole thing. Longitudinal stability would be excellent, but vertical and lateral not so much without further support, like a post beneath and planks above. This type of scarf would be very difficult to use in a repair situation because it would have to jockeyed into place with either lateral or longitudinal room to move. The plain scarf in the Morgan picture can be just jacked into place and bolted.

Welcome aboard, mate. Time to change yer name I think. Wait...if you do exorcisms you could always tag one of those wayward spirits to be your "ghost" salesman.

Oh, I've made bread with a dutch oven. The tin kitchen was more for roasting. Although I guess it could be used for baking, if a shelf was installed.

OK, had to watch "The Boy and the Pirates" simply because the main character's name is Jimmy Warren. Now since my Pyrate name is "Captain James Warren, based on my first and middle name, I just had to watch. Take my advice, don't. It's a bit of early sixties fluff involving a genie, Blackbeard and a little kid. Should have been called "The Boy and the Pirates that are Bad Actors."

More pictures here: https://picasaweb.google.com/105790969193820320615/Alafia2014?authkey=Gv1sRgCNiir_zJ6Ya1hQE#

I guess each of us will see (or hear) something that bothers us and that others will see as minor or inconsequential. It all relates, I suppose, to our individual interests and focal points in the worlds of history and reenacting. For some it is svelte vixens, for others language, still others it's shoes and clothing or inexplicably good health or dental work. To adequately dissect the good and the bad of this series to the satisfaction of all would require a scene-by-scene, cut-to-cut evaluation. It would take years. And that will happen, if the series is memorable enough, if it gathers the kind of fan following of Star Trek, Firefly or any great science fiction series be it in film or in print. Fans regularly go to great lengths to winnow out the most arcane facts and inconsistencies of those series. But there will be a difference here. The difference is that those programs and books were science fiction and not character-driven historic recreation with claims of accuracy. In science fiction the inconsistencies are internal; there are no "facts" against which to measure the content of those series. Want a transporter beam? No problem. Not so with Black Sails. If one were to create a series based on WW II submariners and install screen doors in the bulkheads, someone would likely point that out. I think the fact that we are already down to such things as ship construction is that we, as a group, really want this series to succeed, we want it to be our go-to history-geek series. We are asking quite a bit of a show meant mainly as entertainment. So, you wanna talk teeth? Fine by me. But those joints really, really bug me...

Alafia from the air. From the Florida Frontiersmen (the sponsoring organisation) website. The actual site is about twice this, but the rest is the woods walk rifle competition range and the modern camping area. There were over 1000 primitive campers and over 200 vendors.

A panorama taken on one of the main shopping streets, Lee Betz at Five Points (yes, the place is so big it has street names). If you're wondering about the lack of people, it was about 8:30 in the morning and about 40 outside with the wind about 20 knots. It got crowded later, filling up with what the locals call "flatlanders", their term for the general public.