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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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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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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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Avast! Here be a fine ship being build, it be far away, overhere in the Netherlands, but this be a good place to follow the progression. Aye, a fine ship she be, we's proud to have it being build right in the place it originates: Delfshaven. If ye ever comes to Holland, be shure to check it out, it be in Rotterdam! 18th Century ship "De Delft"
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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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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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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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Anybody who might be an expert or knowledgeable please contact us helping to identify a wreck
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Since we decided wot we be wantin' in a ship a few posts down, now ye gets ta name it. Why be yer namin' 'er that though? 'Tis yer vessel, NOW NAME 'er . . .
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Too funny -- even hundreds of years after the GAOP, Spain still can't stand to see anyone else with their gold! Apparently everyone got the "Finders Keepers" memo except them.... BBC News -- Spain To Sue Over Treasure Find
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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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so anyone know anything about batteaus? I feel another project, someone stop me. Its so close to me yet my plate is full. something would have to go. http://www.batteau.org/
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Fire on shore - good. Fire onboard a wooden ship - bad. How was fire for cooking dealt with aboard the ships? What sources of info is out there for info on what was prepared and how. I expect lots of boiled salt pork and some type of bread. If any have some valid information please share or point me in the direction of resources that may have that information. thanks mates, Willie the rumrunner
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I am new to the world of black powder cannons. I am looking to buy either a 2/3 scale 6 pounder fronhern iron works, or the same version from dixie gun works. Both look the same except for th price. I want to find out out if hern iron works are steel lined as are the dixie iron works? Everything have read about herns has been extrmly positive and I would assume it is steel lined, but want to make sure before I purchae. Any help that can be offered would be greatly appreciatd.
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I know there was a thread about shipwrecks being found, so here's a new one.... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_...wreck_discovery "TAMPA, Fla. – Florida deep-sea explorers who found $500 million in sunken treasure two years ago say they have discovered another prized shipwreck: A legendary British man-of-war that sank in the English Channel 264 years ago. Odyssey Marine Exploration hasn't found any gold this time, but it's looking for an even bigger jackpot. The company's research indicates the HMS Victory was carrying 4 tons of gold coins that could be worth considerably more than the treasure that Odyssey raised from a sunken Spanish galleon in 2007, co-fo…
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Ran across something interesting that was bugging me about a mythbuster episode, the one where they test if you can slide down a sail using a knife. The problem was that they would have the knife pulled loose from their hand when they hit the reef band. Well I ran across the following bit of information in a book that I got my dad many years ago. I was checking out the section on sail construction and found the following. from "Historic Ship Models" by Wolfram zu Mondfeld Page 260; speaking of Reefs and Bonnets, ""The Bonnet came from the Mediterranean area ............and by the beginning of the 15th century it had displace the reef. The latter was reintroduced i…
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http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Construction...8buenosairesshi
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here is a news article about a ship that was found off the coast of Namibia http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/namibiaportuga...aeologyshipping
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Dutch in New York, who woulda thunk? Painting says: Kaaterskill Ketch, Hudson River 1645
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The master and commander thread wandered a bit, my appologies. The topic lead to the keel laying of ships. east coast v/s west coast style. To qualify as a tall ship lets say at least 100 feet on deck, traditional rig and a woody. (sorry royaliste, this knocks us both out- but we shall soon have enough for a Rosborough traditional rigged rendezvous!! huzzah!!!) So east coast we have so far Rose, Kalmar Nykel, Schooner Virginia, Pride of Baltimore I & II, Pride of South Carolina, anything from the Herreshoff yard over 100 feet.
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well folks, I have finally gotten off my duff and posted a couple new pictures of our project, LUNA. She is Royalistes sister. the pictures are looking forward, aft and down to the aft cabin. Now that the cover is over we were able to rip the rotten cabin and quarter deck off. now the fun begins!! To see the whole project visit www.colonialseaport.org of course, i used the camera phone so it looks horrible but you get the idea.
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I'm looking for information regarding the Atlantic shipping routes, specifically England to the east coast of America in summer, including prevailing winds (if possible). Thanks for any help.
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