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What I have seen effective for a "sap"/truncheon, is a well hardened Star Knot as shown in Hervey Garret Smith's "The Marlinespike Sailor". A great primer on rope and knot work due to the detail of his illustrations. Ashley's and the Oxford certainly have the numbers when it comes to sheer volume but for the basics and fundimentals of knotwork, you can't beat Smith's. His got some other great projects as well. Smith's "Arts of the Sailor" is another good reference as well. Although not period pirate, if you're going to be around boats and ships and using line, the more we know the safer we are! All the Best.

I believe that transport from ship to ship would have employed a wheelbarrow to move Sea Chests. I think it was in the beginning of Moby Dick, with Gregory Peck, when loading the Pequod this was in practice.

The most effective, easy to store and long lasting preventative of Scurvy turns out to be Sauerkraut. Like M. D. d'Dogge said, "pickled veggies" will work but the Cabbage has the most Vitamin C. I just thought about the daily sodium intake our preceeding shipmates must have had.

A Very Happy Birthday to You, Mr Cross! May you enjoy the Day and this new Year to come. May you have many Happy Returns of the Day!

Let truth be known! The "Tight" Sir d'Dogge finds his sleep in is usually in the overconsumption of strong spirits! Not to say he isn't the jolliest of comrades but I've yet to see him a'bed of many night but more likely in a state of collapse about the towns and camps we've been met in.

Honestly the line setting works much quicker with two people but you can get all set up in under 15 minutes. Does application of a Spanish Windlass help in this process? Also, rather than undo and re run, once slackened can you package it as a unit until next use?

Because it's your special day I shall convert my Flash Packet to an Ark and bring forth these creatures, Hippo, Birdies, two Ewes! And many happy returns of the Day! (speaking of the "funny farm")

Avast Ye All! This be the dwelling of Dutch, Bosun o th "Meka"II. 8 Guns, Brig o War homeport Beaufort, NC. So in my "Communal Garage" lives my home, the motor vessel "Patience", homeport Tarpon River, Florida. She is a 34 ft. raised pilot house, cockpit motor yacht. Hull built in East Blue Hill, Maine by Webber's Cove Boatyard and finished in 1968 by Lighthouse Point Marine in Lighthouse Point, FL. Hull is hand laid up fiberglass. The cabin and interior are African Mahogany. Powered by Perkins 6-354, 135 hp. 900 mile range. Currently restoring cabin tops. Deck replacement completed. I have been living aboard this boat since 1993. She's designed to "Drink six, feed four and sleep two!" The ensuite stateroom is forward and the remainder of the boat is salon and cockpit giving more than half her length for "living room". I have posted pics of her interior on my profile page. Oh Yeah! I have a rental climate controled storage in FL and another regular locker in NC! You can have but so much crap aboard before you go below your Plimsole Line!

T'is gettin' closer than I thought! 'Fore th' date's been move up by a week. The Invasion is not long in the loaming. Location: Clawson's Resturaunt, Front Street, Beaufort Time: 8:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Auction begins Cover: $15 in advance $18 at the door Further info: Liz @ (252)728 7108

"Put at the helm of an Exxon Tanker."

And so shall eye add me Tuppence! A Happy Anniversary o' yer Launchin' Oderlesseye! Sez Eye! Good on yer and enjoy yer Day!

Squire Hook! If'n th Sea Rovin' cruises inta shoal water, by th Law or th' Prizes, We'ns shall hack away at that main cabin and set that Gall'is frame jus' aft o' th Pilot house and with a PTO rig a Hyster! You can't hide a certain look can ye?

My Vessels. m/v "Patience" a Webbers Cove 34 built in East Blue Hill, Maine. She has been my home since 1993. "Key Lime" is a Joel White designed Shearwater. Built by my friend, Charles Curren, she is of the type of the boats of the Os River in Denmark.

Any Serving Mallets in the offing?

Avast, Shipmates! Does I spy the makings of a fleet? Wi' th Bateaux, "Meka"II, me own Os Riverboat and some others I be knowin' of, we just may have quite the flotila of craft. Perhaps a Topic of "Boats, who got'em?" will answer that question.

Ahoy! Mr. Bagley. T'is meself, Dutch o' the "Meka"II. Me Compliments an hopin ye be o' good health an cheer for Spring hath come, Huzzah! I be wantin t' tell ye that th' portmanteau be a thing o' beauty! I bin growin used to our powder monkey, "Slow Match" keepin me stowed t' the plimsol wi' me charges that I got nuthin fer shore use but me haversack! Now a craft sech as the likes o' your'n be the trick, Aye!

What sez ye, Master Hook? We'ns get a'holt o' one o' them Sea Bright Skiffs an break that record! A hunnert year be too long a spell ta' be standin anyway! Jus think, wi' all the proper gear, why it will seem as to be a paddle across a millpond! Well, What say ye?

In the List of Vessels there were several "Sea Bright Skiffs" that were modified for their purpose I guess of an earlier appearance. These vessels of the New Jersey Coast were quite outstanding in their own rite. They were used to fish in the Atlantic off the Jersey Shore launched and retrieved off the beach often in some weather on the return trip. The Skiffs that were listed were from a well known maker with a fine reputation. Hence many built, built well, many survive. Here's the Hit! The Story of George Harbo and Frank Samuelson. These Norwegian Immagrants were fishing clams in Jersey and selling them at the Fulton Street Fish Market in Manhattan. Realizing there wasn't room for growth in this industry they got word of a challenge by the publisher of the Police Gazette that anyone that could crross the Atlantic without steam or canvas, he'd award a prize of $10K! They decided to win this prize, then earn fees for lectures and endorsements. They took a Sea Bright Skiff and modified it with two floatation chambers, two rails on the bottom for righting and dry chambers for food and clothing. They had three pairs of spare oars securly lashed, three pairs of oil skins and lamps and oil. They set out from the Battery and began a Voyage of Fifty Five Days of Capsizing, Near Collision, Near Starvation and No Cruise Director! They Made IT! The boarded a Steamer and not too far from home the steamer ran out of coal! The Capt ordered every piece or wood burned. Rather than give "FOX", the Sea Bright, to the boiler's fire, they put her overboard and rowed the rest of the way home! The Publisher stiffed them on the $10K but gave them Gold Medals and they never recieved the notoriety they deserved. Their record Still Stands! Those of you that enjoy Sea Music, "The Ballad of Harbo and Samuelson" by Gerry Bryant. Those of you that enjoy reading as I do, I'm going to find a book I just learned about, writen by a decendant named Davis. I will Post more as I find it!

"What's your 'day job'?" Well, I own and live on a boat built in 1968. The only thing that works on an old boat is the owner!

Avast ye Buccaneers Bold, Ye Pirates, All. Hear me well, in the Old Towne of Beaufort there be an Auction! Of what, sez ye? I tells ye, Sez I. Wenches, lad. The finast. Buy one, two or more! What gets ye, sez ye? I tells ye, sez I! Ye buys Dinner and the Company of one of these most Charming and Aluring Ladies what ken only be found in sech a fine place as this. So come ye, one or come ye all. Fer it's a time we shall be a'havin'! Here it be, an I tells ye straight. Ye comes to the Olde Towne o' Beaufort on the twenty first day o' May at 8 pm at Clawson's Resturaun and heres wot we do. We present the Finast o' Ladies the Towne 'as to offer. No Hags or He-Shes, but right fine ladies. Each one with a treat from one of the fine Victualin' Establishments in our loverly Towne. Now, ere's wot ye do; ye bids agin all other Pirates bold, Buccaneers and Scallywags an 'im wi' the biggest purse wins that particular Evening's entertainment. Ye must be here to bid and to collect yer Prize. Ye may collect yer Prize at the Pyrate Invasion in August if, say ye wuz to come here from another port just fer th' festivities. Bein' any futher inquiries, ask'em! May on the Carolina Coast be rifgt beautiful and th' Auction be a ball! So gather yer dubloons and make weigh for Beaufort! If'n ye be havin' any questions, message me.