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Sheesh I am a neutral good spell sword. That sounds boring even to me and I don't play D&D

guns knives games car parts (yes I am that redneck ) and Books lots of books

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Iwear old spice on a daily basis and used to wear a fragrance called Navigator before they stopped making it when I got dressed up. On women anything thats understated works well I hate chicks that smell like rubbing alchool....chicks that smell like whiskey on the other hand

WOOT I finally posted a quote somebody got!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry just felt a little odd.

Name of me ship huh Well construction of the Becky Lynn (a pram designed by Jim Michalack (the design's name is piccup)) should begin after Christmas. I call me tri hull fishing boat The tri Hard ( old joke tri hard not to laugh while I beat myself to death.) I haven't named my Jhon boat and the plans I've been working on for a flat bottomed pocket cruiser are called The Wood Duck.

murder ( my nickname/handle is HITMAN after all)

I'll take the lack of posts to mean no one knows the answer to either mine or Blackbeards quotes. To be honest I have no clue what his is either. Mine is from the movie Convoy. The hint it's my job apparently wasn't much help. Here's another quote for you. It's fine Scottish weather the rain is falling straight down

still digging through some of my papers for a better refrence but I did run across this little tid bit "charts showing magnetic devation were readly availble by 1701 for diffrent parts of the world." and that the first compasses were used only when the sun/stars were not visable because when they were out of familliar waters they couldn't trust the reading and didn't know why.

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Cook Out - Normally southeren rock and country (heavy on the Van Zant and Chris Leduex Every day - Golden Oldies Big Meals for friends - Classic Rock Holidays (Read Christmas) - Jazz and classic rockers sing the standards of the season

Happy turkey day to all! Hope it was great fun and that not to many of you will get killed in the annual raid that is the day after thanksgiving sale

kermit the frog

AWESOME!!!!!

I used to know when the magnetic deviation was discovered pretty early on actually and certanly before the GAoP. I'll try and look up the time frame if you want it.

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Navigation by means of Lattitude sailing and dead reckoning was common practise among navigators from at least the time of the Vikings and although I don't have sources for this I'd lay odds the Phoenicians and the Chinese had simmilar techniques. It was for a long time the only means of navigation at sea. longitude was "invented" for lack of a better word at the same time as Lattitude. They have always been a team just like pb&j. The problem with determing Longitude without a chronometer is that it requires a clear veiw of the moon and before the relase of works like The Practical American Navigator very well developed skills in trig. Pirates and the navies that chased them were in many ways quessing when out of sight of land. Now as for skill of the navigators quite frankley the fact that these men were able to get any where safley is damned amazing. Hell Galileo tried to devise a way to determine longitude at sea and failed. The seriousness of this is proven by the fact that parliment offered a prize for anyone who solved the problem. A great site about this and Mr. Harrison (who invented the chronometer) is http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc....355/viewPage/1 From Colunbus "discovering" the New World to the Spanish Armada crashing onto the rocks of England's west coast lattitude only navigation could easily be said to have been quite succesful and quite dangerous. Most pirates were by nature coastal hence these concerns ment less to them than say a good working knowledge of the reefs and bays in their given area of operations. The History channels Tales of the Sea series has an excellent program on navigation through the years you can buy it from them on vhs or wait for it to come on History International. On the subject of Jhon Harrison his chronometer and the trials of his winning the parlimentry prize check out the book Longitude or the A&E movie by the same name. I used to have a link to a sight with 14 chapters of the 1995 edition American Practical Navigator on it but I can no longer find the link. Hope this helps

Yeah that is the draw back with the NRA we do (or pherhaps I should say they ) have a members only kinda mentality. Wish I could help more but to be honest checking with SASS and the Blue & Gray may be your best bet from here. If I run into one of my renactor buddies with the Sons of Confederate Vetrans I'll ask how they go about it but It's rare that I run into them these days.

Not the only garbless member Capt, Keyes. My intrest in Pirates stems from my love of tall ships and history.

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Hand if the chimmney wont draw ain't no fix I know for it. The fire place at my brothers house has a chimney that wont draw and hence force has been nothing more than an ash tray of giant proportions. Any one know a bullet maker that has spitzer tip 30/30 rounds and or a good place to get parts for a Lee British Enfield Numrich doesn't have what I need.

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Oops. The answer to the quote is Harlem Nights between Eddie Murphy actor #1 and Richard Pryor actor #2. New quote You guys sure know how to ruin a birthday party! (hint couldn't resist it's my job.) Apologies for the repost and slowing down the thread but hey I'm only a member of the third most intelligent species on earth. lol... Happy Thanksgiving