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Capt. Bo of the WTF co.

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  1. Thank you for all your help, it is greatly appreciated sir! Bo
  2. This photo was shot the day I pulled it home from the Corps of Engineers' dry-lot. It still had all the grungy dried crud on it from being sunk in a muddy-bottom cove at the Marina for about a week, then stored in the hot summer sun in a large gravel lot for 6 months. I have since done extensive cleaning, sanding, and scraping. The bottom coat of paint looks like red-oxide barn paint but comes right off with just water... ??? Bo
  3. Ha! I hope he will continue to post "encouraging challenges" as the project progresses! I have about 60-70% of the scraping and sanding completed, and am about ready to begin removing some of the old caulking for replacement. Of course now winter has decided to arrive in Mizzourah so weather and temps are going to hold me up some on that, but still plenty of work to do. Bo
  4. I got some of that coffee in beans last year, which prompted me to stop procrastinating and finally bought one of those brass Turkish hand grinders so I could enjoy the brew. It is an historic demonstration in itself making coffee that way beside an open fire during living history events and reenactments! Bo
  5. The library computers are not up to speed today, but I did manage to get one photo downloaded before everything went south. Here she is, my Breezy: It really isn't as bad as it looks. Bo
  6. Working on my boat and trying to re-kit along the way. Still trying to figure out downloading of photos of my boat here at the library. New job has me working like I am 24 instead of 54, but todays' 20-somethings won't step-up and heave-ho so I suppose it is up to us old farts to keep the economy rolling.... Bo
  7. Trying to remember how to do this download trick....stay tuned! Bo
  8. Rained out from hunting on this, my 54th trip around the sun. This is the first opportunity I have had to get to the library in several months, so I wanted to send the annual best wishes to all my December Club compatriots, may the next year go as good as can be expected. Bo
  9. So sorry I missed out. Life and the new job kept me busier than a feller ought to have to be. I hope to back for this next year if we are still able. Bo
  10. The original sails are in very good shape and have been stored in a house closet inside a plastic tote for the last several years. I laid them all out and checked every square inch. They will be used for photo-ops. and training us lubbers as we "learn the ropes" & such but I will definitely feel more secure under the tan-bark sails. Work on the boat had to be put off for a week as my truck broke in two last week on my way to an event at Fort Osage, so I had to be USN HT shipfitter this week welding the frame back together. (Split in half above the axles on both sides). Oh well, at least nobody got hurt and it was repairable. Planning on getting a newer one after the first of the year anyway. I forgot to bring the camera with me darnitt, so still no photos, but I will get them up asap. Bo
  11. Thanks all. I have a bit more info trickling in. She is a Concordia Sloop with a Carvel type hull. Meeting the previous owner here at the library in a few minutes to pick-up more of the stuff that goes with her. There are two sets of sails, apparently the originals are Egyptian cotton and have never been used. The bark-tan main and jib are both red in color. There is also a complete cover for the deck I wish would have been used before it was so badly sun-damaged, but that was before she came to me. Oh well, I know what I'll be doing this fall/winter... Bo
  12. Anybody got a good source for caulking, brass, and bronze fasteners? There is no damage to the hull below the waterline as far as I can see at this point but some of the trim is loose and the nail-in fasteners are not going to hold in the present locations due to shrinkage. There is some damage to the starboard oarlock and splash trim where the idiots at the marina lifted her,(she was swamped and sank at her moorings during some of the severe storms we had this summer) but it isn't anything I can't handle. Other than a lot of scraping, sanding, caulking, and paint there doesn't appear to be anything that says she ain't sound. There are a couple places along the keel where the gaps are going to have to be fitted with some filler pieces due to shrinkage, but the wood is still pretty solid all the way down. She will never be as pretty as she was new, but then who is after 40 years of rough service? She didn't have a name when I got her, so I am naming her Breezy in loving memory of my daughter, Briona Sue, who passed away at age 5 1/2 on Christmas day 1993. Breezy was her nick-name and I think it a fitting name for trim little craft such as this. I hope to get photos up next week. Bo
  13. I have acquired a wooden sailing vessel after all my wishing; (be careful what you wish for...etc.), and I now have an 18ft boat built in 1972 by the (then) master shipwright at Mystic Seaport. She needs overhauled but she ain't rotten, just dry and needs some scraping, caulking and paint. It will be a lot of labor but it was given to me trailer and all, so the initial cost is not setting me back any. Cannot recall the style or period right off the top of my head, but she has lovely lines and will be a beauty when she sails again. Pictures to follow as soon as I can get to it! Bo
  14. Very cool! I am like the author and noticed how every kit has a spoon in it! Also, the early ones all have fire-steels, one of which is a design I last made before giving up the forge. Thanks for posting this , I really enjoyed looking at all the details. Bo
  15. OK, so I'll add horse racing to the mix. Depending on the cultural base of the citizens, horseraces were popular in many coastal settlements as well as interior. Spanish people were very much into the horse culture, while the French much less so. English also enjoyed the sport of horse racing very much. Finding references will be interesting though. I cannot remember reading of any horse racing in the period accounts of pirates and privateers off-hand, but there is R.H. Dana's Two Years Before the Mast from a much later period ca. 1830's of the California coast hide trade. He gives good accounts of the festivities which include horse racing, both as part of the festivals, and also impromptu ones instigated by drunken sailors ashore for liberty. If there are horses, men will race them! Bo
  16. Shooting. A.O. Exquemelling states that among the buccaneers their chief occupation between raids was target shooting and cleaning weapons. Buccaneers and pyrate types are often credited for their marksmanship over regular troops/sailors in period writing. The only way to be proficient with weapons is practice, and therefore competition is and was a key element in becoming so. Bo
  17. William Dampier also recorded the burial on land of a Captain Cook after leaving the Galapagos Islands. Cook had taken sick after a successful capture of some prize vessels and never fully recovered, died within sight of landfall and was buried with simple ceremony on land by the crew. Bo
  18. not sure but two in the area at the time were Howell Davis, and Charles Vane. They were also both killed in 1719. maybe this will help narrow the possibilities at least. Bo
  19. I think this is the post where the images I am looking for used to be. Any chance to recover them? Please??? Bo
  20. It is a crime to look that happy! Envy is not usually one of my downfalls, but....DANG! Good sailing to you and yours, and if you ever get the urge to sail in the Midwest, like maybe Truman Lake..... Bo
  21. We had one die in the dash of our car in the spring three years back... OK, no more details. Bo
  22. Does the horse know how to open the fridge yet? Bo
  23. Damn, that sucks! I tried all the usual searches and so far nothing. I only saw it once or twice and I'm not sure if it was here or on the old pirates forum Black John and Foxe used to run, or one of the other history/frontier forums. If I remember right, it was originally published as the border of a map of the Caribbean islands. My memory is not , however, the most reliable filing system. The search continues..... Bo
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