capn'rob

Tis true yer shot an on the mark! I just love the word too! The Salt shelf, I'll leave out there a bit.

I love this stuff! Here's a few to start. "Parbuckling" and "Salt Shelf". Have at it!

"Mr Kimball is it a tumor?" "It is not a Tumor" Wait, that was Arnold Schwatzenaggar in Kindergarten Cop. Sorry!

Bravo! The work looks just superb. The details as well. An inspiration to a 4th generation Tailor that's done nothing since quilting in 20 years!

Aye, Mr. Hook. Spare the "Rope's End" and spoil the watch!

Avast, Sir Master o' the Royaliste! If'n ye takes th' time t' look in th' deeps o' Mr. Hands post ye'll see he been nay missin th "Clok Strop"! In Modern Navy and CG the "Cordage" didn't become some of the aforementioned items yet in years gone by certainly did. Yet there be more!

Aye, Manrope! a must 'ave! "Painter" doesn't have "Rope" in its moniker.

Aye, Aye Mr. Hand! T'was a surprise t' me as wot Mr. Morgan Tyre wuznt one wot come up wi' that one as 'e makes 'em!

Aye, Mr. Hook. As Capt. L.J. Silver would say, "Smart as Paint."

Bolt rope on a sail. A "cocked hat" sight! There's one!

So often I hear in a very authoritarian voice "there are no ropes on a vessel." True, once brought aboard most rope when put to use becomes a line. Most line with a name for the purpose it serves. There are , however ropes aboard. So here's the game; what are they?

p.s. You can recognize the sections of masts that are Slushed. They are not painted as are most that have yards on fixed cranes.

Pork Barrel (as in politics) probably came from the same source as slush fund. See http://www.straightd...n-of-slush-fund Mark The cook would hide what he could because the "Slush" was important to the raising of Yardarms. Sailors were sent aloft on the topmasts with a bucket of slush and worked their way down applying this lubricant to those segments of the masts where yardarms were raised and lowered. The topsails were the primary sails. Prior to the mid 19th century they were of the longest hoist with several reef points. In foul weather you did not want that Yardarm fetching up against the mast. In later years with the coming of the Clippers, the sails began to reach for the Sky. From the T'Gan's'l or Top Gallant Sail, Rose the Royals, Sky sails Star Sails and just to make more speed, extend the yardarms with "Stu'n's'l Bones". Yards that extended from the yard itself and would set sail that extended the width of the square sails greatly. Steam put an end to that all too soon. There is one Clipper Ship in operation today that sails with guests. It was built in Holland and Christened the "Amsterdam". I've been aboard of She but just in port. That's what I got.

Here's my "Tuppence". In 1979 I had delivered a boat to Hawaii from Panama via French Polynesia. While living in Hawaii a South American Training Vessel called at Honolulu. A Beautiful Ship, I don't remember her name or hailing port. While in Hawaii the sailors were so well behaved that it was quite noticable. I mentioned this to a friend of mine who had been living in Hawaii many years and he explaned. It seems some years before on their last visit the Honolulu Poliice arrested a sailor and charged him with rape. The Captain asked that this sailor be turned over to him as he was responsible for the Ship and her Crew. The Police did. The Captain let loose, steamed a few miles offshore and Hung This Man From The Yard Arm!!! I started to behave just because the Ship was there! The other "Penny" regards Flogging and should be a half pence each. I'm trying to remember the source but "Flogging Around the Fleet" it seems I saw in a movie or read it but certainly recall mid-day. I also think no one survives that punishment. My other pearl is about Flogging in the U.S.Navy. Commodore Uriah P Levy fought many courts martial, antisemitism and slander yet managed to rise above and make it that as free men we are not put to the lash. He bought Jefferson's Monticello and saved it from ruin then donated it to the Citizens of the USA. That's what I got on Flogging and the quick drop with the sudden stop!

Aye, Hurricane! But only for Export!

Me Compliments, Captain Sterling. The Dutchman be right, he be. 'Tis an event that was missed last year and felt in the coffers. 'Tis quite the Entertainment! As to the Dates, this year's are posted on the Forum now and will be August 13, 14 and 15th. Captain Sinbad is hoping the Crewe of the Archangel will be joining us once again. Certainly I am as well!

Aye! And wouldn't ye know it! They gone and changin' the date! I asks t' when, sez I. In May, sez they. When in May, sez I? Whence we be a'tellin' ye, sez they! A fine thing, eh? Shipmates! As soon as it hits the Scuttlebutt, ye'll be knowin' as well! Avast and Belay wi' yer grumblin and 'a growlin, fer it be here soon. Upon th 14th o' May be the Wench Auction Day. Gather up yer Dubloon, Crown, Silver or Gold bar and come ye, all!

Bear in mind that the great covenience of Split Topsails didn't come around until the second half of the 19th century.

Avast! Shipmates. I just got a package wot contained me new Hat! I ordered a "Jack Tar" Tarpaulin Hat from Hat Crafters. Very pleasant to deal with. Sent it out in got it in 9 days! It is exactly what I wanted and then some!

One more thing. I checked my Birth Certificate and I'm actually 59. You've put me as 58. although, it does make me feel a bit younger.

Hmmmm..... Makes me kinda wonder how the MERCURY crew got it's name !!!! Maybe it's NOT the name of the ship ??? >>>>> Cascabel It was that saucy little trimmy rigged Doxy!

I have a large and varied collection of Chanties, Forebitt and Traditional music in recordings and repetior. A favorite is difficult to pick however the disission would have to be "A SAILOR'S PRAYER" by Rod Mac Donald. Not the Traditional tune known by Tom Lewis from the U.K. another great tune. This is a song writen by a dear friend of mine. Beside Rod the song had been recorded by Gordon Bok and now several bands that do Ren Fest though I don't get the connection, Rod get's his royalties. I have found it on YouTube but I'm a bit of a techno Dullard and couldn't get it posted here. It's done by Rod, some Ren Fest Group, some group in a noisy pub and an Irish Trio that do it justice.

Here's my take on it. The Ship's Boat, most likely carried on deck, would dry out. Dry planks shrink. That would let all the seams leak enough that bailing would not keep up or ahead of. By sinking the boat, all planks would fully swell and at the same rate and the caulking wouldn't be disturbed. You wouldn't do just the bottom planks for if there was sail or they would jury rig something, you'd cover heeling. In New England after a winters storage, the planks of our wooden sailboats would shrink so we would launch them, get them to the mooring and leave them for a week. A deep breath then furious bailing and there you are! Tight as a Duck's Butt! In cases where a boat has machinery and can't be sunk, depending how dry the winter was, you'd begin with garden sprinklers under the boat. Then hang them in the launching slings over a weekend. "Dusting" the slip is another method by which the launching slip is cast with sawdust or oatmeal to temporarely stop the seams. That's what I got. Dutch "X" his mark