jollyjacktar

So, I don't really know where to start.

I used to really really really like sea chests...or boxes on boats or whatever. I even built a few to haul all my dunnage around in for living history events etc. Then all of sudden I thought about the sporadiac and on again off again career of a merchant seaman of the late 17th century. I soon realized that lugging around a sea chest was just too damn cumbersome. Besides dragging this chest all around whatever town you happened to be in, New York, Charles Towne, Bridgetown you still had to get it to the orlop or foc'sle deck of the next ship you got a job with. So I experimented with taking what I kept in my sea chest and packing it up a little differently what follows is as of now the best way I've figured out how to do it. Any questions, comments, concerns or snide remarks about this process please pass on, I'm always trying to make this even better. Without further ado.

At the bottom of hatch to the foc'sle ( you can see my pack here slung over my shoulder)

Arising from afore-mentioned hatch (See how easily me and all my stuff fits through such a tight space? :-)

Off of the boat and on to the Ordinary ( or in my case today the museum)

On the Floor of the Museum Now I've taken the strap off (It's just a piece of small hemp rope) and started to unroll the oilcloth exterior

The Bulkiest part of the whole kit is my Barbadian Redware bowl/cup and it sits snuggly in the top of the hammock roll

Unrolling the hammock, and some close up shots of the parcels that are packed up inside of it

Those same parcels unwrapped

A twist of tobacco in linen bag / draughts board and deck of cards/ Knit purse with 1610 crown and reale pieces and silk ribbon / small wool bag with flint, striker, slowmatch, dice, small knife, pipe, broken pipe to talk about archeology / 1635 Broadside "Neptunes Raging Fury with my wax, and sail twine folded inside

Small Deerskin case with lead, snips, and sail needles

Go Check out Part 2!

Yours & co

C.OHlandt

10.CJ and the Snotties

*Cue Air guitar and pyro*

Just wait for the tour, Our next date, March 19th Jamestowne VA

I know this is late, but on top of the block and tackle demos I'm going to be bringing up my "trade" props to discuss the Native/Colonist/Barbados trade happening in the late 17th century.

Yours & co

CJ

Shepherds pie traditionally uses sheep, mutton or lamb, and cottage pie is beef, both with a tattie topping and sometimes with cheese in or melted ontop of y'mashed tatties, mmmmmmmmmmmmm.........real cheese, not that stuff that can be used for resoling shoes and comes presliced 'tween ikkle bits of plastic film or the stuff that comes in a can but real, preferably unpasturised, cheese.

So I guess when you use bison, it's Frontier Pie?

As far as bison meat goes, I know that bison were still kicking around the southeast during the 1670s. Not only did the colonist in Charles Towne SC trade with the natives for the meat but the hides were one of the more valuable pelts form the area

@ Foxe and Hurricane,

The Famous Fight at Malago is my favorite fallback tavern song but it's not one most people are gung ho about joining in on....

Now as far the the existence of shanties in the 17th century there is a quote from a Dominican Friar Felix Fabri, the text was written in 1493 and published in 1498, about one of his many pilgrimages, I've got the whole manuscript on a flash drive somewhere, but he makes references to sailors doing all kind of singing. He mentions Helmsmans singing songs while watching the compass and talks about older sailors ( he named them mariners) leading songs during work, this last bit I found so interesting becasue he uses the phrase "in concert" which I always took to mean in the call and response style.

Yours & co

CJ

Thanks a lot Greg! I've really enjoyed getting to wear mine. Means a lot coming from the guy who supplied my monmouth that I've wore for nearly as long as the purse.

Yours & co.

CJ

Pending Payment, the purse style "A" is sold.

Turret and Stripe patterns are still available. And of course if you want a Style "A" one I can make it up for you upon ordering.

Thanks

Yours & co

CJ

I have been wearing a knit "gunnister style" purse for over a year now and every time I've gone to an event, someone wants to know where to get one. The original purse was found on a body preserved in a peat bog in Gunnister Scotland, and contatined coins that dated the body to the late 17th century. I am now pleased to offer three styles of this knit bag all knit with 2 ply 100% wool yarn. Price is $35 a piece. If you don't see a style you are sold on then feel free to contact me and we can try to work out a color/ design scheme that works for you. Style "A" is closest to the original bag and is made of mixed grey yarn with patterns in dark brown and red/purple. The other two are based on simple geometric patterns and colors available in the late 17th century.

So without further ado... pictures

Purse A

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Purse B (with a Turret pattern)

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Purse C (Stripe Pattern)

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Yours & co

CJ

CJ Ohlandt with the Crewe of the Archangel

So I apologize for the lateness of my reply, but I don't own a computer....

This event was an absolute blast, from taking the explorer out on Friday Night, the Skiff Race on Saturday. Even watching Reggie and I completely botch the hawser relay was funny in its own way. Thanks so much to Dutch and the CSF for hosting an event that I would love to co0me to again whenever I can. Personal Thanks to Pern for allowing me to help re-make the standing rigging for the explorer, and of course to Captain Sterling for letting me fall in with the Angels.

As far a ticks go (knock on wood) Haven't seen one yet. and very few if any mosquito bites. I personally think it has something to do with me not wearing shoes for 3 straght days.

Thanks to everyone again

Yours & co.

CJ

Yes Captain, I'm available for (I hesitate) anything you need.

Yours & co

CJ

To Do list:

1: Pack my snapsack. CHECK!

2: Roll hammock and blanket. CHECK!

3:Throw hammock and snapsack in truck. CHECK!

4: Drive to Deltaville. On Wed.

I'm getting excited. Can't wait to see you all!

Yours & co

CJ

Think on it this way dutch,

I only get to come out for one maybe two events (outside of Charles towne landing) per year. Deltaville is my one this year. It can't rain. it simply can't.

Yours & co

CJ

Cran Henderson Ohlandt Jr.

or CJ

Cran Henderson, was my grandmother's brother (on my dad's side)

As far as I have heard Ohlandt means "Of the Land" in German

Madiera is a wine, and a porringer is a piece of pottery that acts as both a cup and a bowl :-)

27th of May,

Coming soon. I prefer Madiera out of a porringer if you must know.

Yours & co.

CJ

this is just fantastic, awe-inspiring. How long did this take?

Too bad you didn't have the time to make it out to Charles Towne Landing. I work on the 1670's trading vessel there.

While neither of these songs were chanties per say they were both very popular amongst seamen of the late seventeenth century. One is "The Famous Fight at Malago" (1666) and the other is "Neptune's Raging Fury; or the Gallant Seaman's Sufferings" (1635) You can find documentation as well as tunes online. I want to say I found them on a Californian University's site. They had scans of Samuel Peyps' ballad collection and have almost all the items scanned online. If I can find the link I will post it. Now on second thought both of those tunes while ballads could be used as windlass or capstan chanties.

Yours & co.

CJ

Hey I am really interested in coming to this event but would really appreciate being able to find a ride or carpool situation. I live in Charleston SC. Anyone planning on coming from the south? Thanks!

For Cross;

The Carolina was a two hundred tunn frigate that left Portsmouth in 1669 on a voyage to the colony that would soon become South Carolina, Carpenter’s Stores are as follows

List is taken from “The Shaftesbury Papers” I left the spelling and formatting of the original list

Carpenter’s Stores

three new Augers

one cross cut saw ould

ten pounds of thrums

one pitch Ladle one Iron Loggerhead to heat pitch

Eight hinges nine Ring boults

foure port hinges three puttack plates

Six iron bound dead eyes two eye bolts three chaine plates

two double Hookes three Reaming Bolts two Iron Wedges

fiue port Hookes one boom Iron for ye boate

Two iron Clamps foure bolts three Iron hoops

Two port hinges one Iron Saucer for Capstan

two pump hookes foure pump bolts.

one Iron Driuer one hoock for ship side.

one boome Clasp six bower pump boxes.

eleun upper boxes thre chaine boxes.

one foot and halfe square of pumpe leather

seuen paire of hinges and oaches

three paire of Cross Gametts & one paire small hinges

one halfe bag of sheating nailes about 40^li w^t.

one halfe ditto of twenty penny ditto.

two thousand five hundred of ten peny nailes.

two thousand of six penny ditto

fouer^m of pump nailes of sorts

fouer^m of Lead ditto of ditto

fouer^m of foure peny nailes

two thousand of scupper nailes

three hundred and forty peny ditto

three hundred of thirty peny ditto

foure hundred of twenty foure peny ditto

I was thinking today about windlasses and that got me thinking about a topic I really don't know much about.

Anchors.

And a little more detailed about what and how these monsterous iron hooks were kept attached to the ship. I once read somewhere (I'm not sure if this is right or not so please correct me if I am) that for every foot of water you have in depth you are supposed to have nearly 4 to 7 feet of line on the anchor cable. If that is the case then in roughly one hundred feet of water, you'd be looking at employing an anchor cable upwards of 700'. Ok so now what constitutes an anchor cable? I've seen the term cable in period refer to any large diameter line, roughly 1" or larger in diameter. Would it be practical to have a "cable" over 700' in length or would it have been more practical to have several different sections that were capable of being pieced together to form the larger whole? Was it common to be using chain as part of an anchor cable during the later 17th century or just line? Finally if you were to have a "pieced" anchor cable how would you then accomodate the cable passing through one of the forward housings?

Thanks and any information anyone can shed on this topic would be splendid.

Yours & co.

CJ

I am a historic interpreter/educator for the state parks of south carolina. More specifically I am the program specialist for the ADVENTURE, which is a reproduction of a 17th century coastal trading vessel. So I get to wear the funny clothes every day that I am at work.

yours & co

CJ

We use a two ended lintstock at the seventeenth century historic site I work at. I know the area that holds the slowmatch is in the shape of two wolf's heads. I can see if I can snag some pictures of it today if I can make it out to the magazine.

yours & co

CJ

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 hatch, some room forward and aft of that and thats all she wrote.

Anyway here is a picture of what it looked like completely empty.

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I would love to find some documentation about how I could dress out this area on the ketch, but if all you have are "period suggestions" then I'll take those as well.

Thanks in advance

Yr hmbl srvnt

CJ