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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 40li wt. one halfe ditto of twenty penny ditto. two thousand five hundred of ten peny nailes. two thousand of six penny ditto fouerm of pump nailes of sorts fouerm of Lead ditto of ditto fouerm 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. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3 ... =217401146 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

Thank you all very much for your insight. Hawkyns, Does this mean that as it appears in this picture that I could wear this doublet say in theory at both Jamestowne and Plymouth?

Ok, so I turn my query to those of you who are more familiar with the fashion of the early seventeenth century. The mannequinn in the picture was clothed in a suit based on the 1628 wreck of the Vassa. Can anyone tell me what the style of jacket/ coat is? what is it's time range? and the one big question, what if any are the closure's on the jacket? Thanks in advance. yrs. and co. CJ OHLANDT

Mr. O'Keefe, In agreeance with all others fine crafsmanship indeed. Do you mind me asking where you got the hinges? yr hnrs hmbl srvnt CJ

Just a brief question pertaining to that glorious little contract. Any thoughts or opinions on using a striped ticken weave that isn't blue and white? I know the contract doesn't mention color, but do we have any primary sources stating the most common color of ticken? Or would it have been to the discretion of the man issued the patterns? Also horn as a button material? HOw far back do we have documentation for horn buttons? Thanks! yr hnrs hmbl & obdnt srvnt CJ

Greetings to one and all, my name is CJ In theory of few of you know who I am, at least I've met or at least talked with a few of your number. As far as a crewe, I am not formally a member of any pirate crewes and owe my allegiance above all to the vessel I work on. She is the ADVENTURE and is a reproduction of a 1670's trading ketch in Charles Towne SC. But I am not a terribly interesting topic, good to be here finally. yr hnrs hmbl & obdnt srvnt CJ "The health of men is concerned in their clothes" -Sir William Coventry 1663