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Anyone know of any solid info on the following: Flora Burn, American East Coast, 1741 Mary Harvey/Harley/Farlee/Bo-barlee, banana fo farlee...the list goes on. 1725-26 Any like persons of interest along the American East Coast/Carolinas/Caribbean 1660-1750? (Besides the obvious, of course)

I wrote a paper for my History Seminar class about just this thing. Much to do between the gov's of VA and NC over jurisdiction, you scratch my back etc, you owe me a favor, oh and by the way, the goods are going to be re-routed to MY colonies economy, thankyouverymuch. You know, politics. See Gov Eden's involvement in the Tuscarora War-it's connected.

My daytime alias is working alterations and I've scored MASSES of old plastic shank'd coat buttons of various sizes from the '70s. They all look like they've been imprinted with a sort of woven design and colored to resemble a leather. I mean to cover them in just these sorts of ways! Thanks, Cross!!! PS: If anybody wants some, PM me with a desired size and number, there's BOXES of these things at work!

I was so happy to meet you, Michael, Kate, Greg, Maria (and even more thankful you were my DD Friday night :) Can't wait to see you all again! -Betsy I gotta get a more piratey name.

Shoot me a PM about this year! I'd love to help!

Hey Scurv, You know I'm always in for a pirate party in the Old North State. Hit me up on FB if something gets going, I'm always happy to lend an organizing hand!

(If this is the right place to post) I am offering hand-knit socks of Fisherman's wool at a comparable price. Knitted to custom size. Hand-spun available, but quite a bit more. Please enquire for details.

So, yeah, JC is the MAN ON THE BALL finding every image of this dress I've found and several more. Bought the silk for this....Four months ago? Still haven't cut a darned thing out. Kate and Mickey: You'll remember me from Searle's...Miss Red I-Don't-Fit-This-Corset? Yeah, built the corset to go under this dress. THEN found out the dress has the corset built-in. Spitfire: Those pink stays are the V&A Museum stays that Kass built her pattern off of. PS: Not built for the short-waisted. Forgot that part. The pattern says to make two rectangles for sleeves, no contouring, they just tie on. I'm on this project with you Michael! Well, as soon as I get those stays shortened...

ON THE PRIOR SUBJECT OF STAYS: I've actually taught myself corsetry. If memory serves correctly, when the more rigid, full-torso stays went into the "Boned Sportsbra" version the Jane Austen fans are familiar with, there were women who actually had to keep wearing their old stays because 1) their back muscles had conformed during early growth and 2) they relied on the extra support for heavy lifting chores. Think of the backbraces the folks at Home Depot wear-there you go. If you want to be portraying a woman of some respectability in public, you must wear stays. Imagine not wearing your bra (for some, this is less noticeable than most, but still).Yes, they're hard to make at first. Yes, they're unusual and uncomfortable, especially if not fitted properly. *Proper fit is KEY* However, they can be made of reed or cording, a la the Elizabeth I Effigy Corset (See Drea Leed's research) and it can be quite a bit more forgiving that steel or heavy duty plastic. SOMEWHAT SHAMELESS PLUG: (please let me know if I should post somewhere else) If someone could get me a quick hold on Mantua Maker's copyright/vendor information (anybody see anywhere on the pattern how many you can make/if you can make for money?) I would be more than happy to custom fit as closely as possible a set of stays. Corsetry is a dying artform in some reenactor circles, and I would be more than happy to promote it.

Nothing against a ship I don't know personally, but I've heard it described maintenance-wise as an ungrateful teenager. Doesn't matter how many times to tar the shrouds, it still hates you.

Nonperiod: Own a Southcoast 22. Plans in the works to reinstall water pump on the Evinrude6, outfit with electronics, and recondition interior. Period: Worked for a company that owned a 17th century sloop, great little thing, possibly trailerable, and flips in two halves, sloop-rigged. Heard it cost around $100k to build (using the finest of woods and techniques, of course). Would probably be the most efficient to take to events, set up, sail about, take down, trailer home. After working on the Kalmar Nyckel and still not being able to correctly identify half the lines on the foredeck (nobody ever ask me again where the sprits'l bowlines are!), I'm all for something that doesn't cost six months' of "vacation" time to service.

To my Tiller friends: Anybody ever used a tiller on a boat over 30'? It's a royal pain. Hated steering on the boat I served on. 'Course, it did have a cantankerous hull design. I guess the whipstaff is out of the question?

How does one secure camping rights onsite?

Oooh, shnazzie...yeah the more pictures I see of the "action" downtown, the more I'm thinking I need to go in drag next year. Boys get to have all the FUN!

Oh, it was yesterday. Looks like I won't have to!!!!

Not a wench auction! I'll do ANYthing for Olde Beaufort Towne but THAT!!!!

One thing David Cordingly's book "Under the Black Flag" talks about is the fact that often, pirates didn't plunder your average merchant vessel for "treasure"- they were taking naval stores like tar and pitch to repair their ships because they couldn't officially make port anywhere except places like Nassau and Port Royal which were known for being places pirates frequented. The significance of naval stores is not only important to the local economies of, say, my home state of North Carolina, but because of the value of goods rather than gold. Taking gold at face value is one thing- trading goods of small value to places where they are of larger value (IE the Triangle Trade) is critical to understanding the driving force of economics in piracy and maritime life.

TAYLOR'S NAVY! Be startin' up outa the Raleigh, NC area. Go see our meetup group! I can't pimp this enough!

This may be my greatest peeve of all! I hate it when I am driving in the left lane, already going 5-10 mph over the speed limit, and someone (usually a male barely into his 20s) comes up from behind me at over 80 mph, flashes his lights, expecting me to either 1: increase my speed to match his, and thereby increasing my culpability in breaking the speed limit) or 2: get into the right lane, so he doesn't have to inconvenience himself by obeying the law and prevailing speed of traffic. I would love to be able to talk to him, to hear his argument for my breaking the law so he can drive the speed he feels like driving Aye Aye to that one! I had a guy in a corvette pulling to the left to flash his highbeams in my side mirror! What a jerk! Left lane does not mean "however the heck fast I wanna go".

LUCKY s-o-...I still got another semester. And oh yeah, GRAD SCHOOL,YUCK! Good luck with yer job hunt.

Hey Kate, where'd ya get them gorgeous stays?! I want me some!

The GAoP is the period between the end of Queen Anne's War (I'm fairly certain, it was one'o'them Dutch wars) and basically the Take-Down of Blackbeard when Spotswood decided to make himself King of the Pirate Killers (and spent about a year convincing the Real King that the Take-Down of Blackbeard by Virginians was totally legal-he actually had no real jurisdiction in Ocracoke or anywhere thereabouts.) I'm sure you're all aware, but just to re-iterate, the Golden Age of Piracy started with all of England's Caribbean Privateers who were given letters of marque against the Dutch, French, Spanish, etc. because of all the wars over colonies there were dropped when all the wars ended. Sort of like if WWII ended and nothing was done for the returning GI's. You get a lot of pissed-off professionals.

Nav tools on a ship...Who knew?! Yeah, when it comes to documented pirate ships, the only thing Whydah's got on the QAR is that they have a big old honkin' bell that says "WHYDAH" on it. Take THAT New England!! (oops, I'm sorry. didn't hurt ya , did i???)

A Pina Colada. Floating in a Bahamian Tide Pool.

OH SO MEAN!!!! Speaking of which, the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary. Probably not even under the right spelling. (is that the right spelling?!)