Bos'n Cross

Maddogge and callenish.......who will we flog for this contest? Theres the cousin of the captain ( bless em' for caring about the boy) theres a few brain cell fried so he might not feel it................ oh, and your goin down gentlemen, so long as the victim is pale, the spirit of the past will keep me goin strong...FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!

nope nope nope thatll do fine sir, i think youv done enough work on my account! Thank you!

im afraid of patrick without pants..........quite afraid.........

master roberts, shame on you for trying to take away a black mans right to whip someone......shame...........Thank you silkie, dont worry i shall try my best to spare your cousin the cat, hes to quiet a boy to be whipped............matty.......i hope you dont break any of my rigging or ill have to show yee what youv gotten into..........

i loves the smell me self, ill have to get some to use at black beards lol....on a side note i though we were doing the antler handel?...........

wonder who thats for......

.....i think i shall say thank you for that.........though captain of the marines has a nice ring to it..........lolol oh dear i realize that my self and the good marine captain may be at ends...i doubt he has any care in his head for our ship or its care...i remember a hammock...and sleeping....alot of sleeping....... i shall do my best to make the title count...ill be handing out whippings like candy.........

.......this is much to my interests......

i am ssoooo jealous of all your projects WHERE ARE U GETTING ALL OF THIS!??!! i guess ill have to steal that mallet later........some of us "were" pyrates after all.....

about to go to harbor fest..........and helping friends get kit together.......and wondering about adams serving mallet..............

tteeeee lol theyll smell like tar! and what a beautiful smell it is.....

Aye its was quite a pleasure to have him as my assistant, i vote we teach him the wholes demo lol, im sure we could use his help in finishing up the explorer!.............black man and burning crosses, never mix.........too many ghost costumes around..........

looked like a wonderful time! Well done mercury crew, great news article!

so many crews in this wide world.........and i joined the guy related to robbie........... somehow the tree house story(if its true, and not all in his head) makes a bit of sense.......or does that mean im going crazy........

i wonder how long it would take me to worm, parcel and serve that much rope...........its almost frightening to think of...........

i do love that i just keep on rowing.....almost like nothing were happening...........

im not sure if captain pern is comming again, but im gonna make a rig similar to his(he had it at deltaville), and do demos on weather proofing line and care of rigging/ standing and running rigging, and a bit of fancy knotwork

Iv done a bot of looking around, and i think at least the reason for the sterns being narrower and higher at least, was to help deter boarding, and in the event of close ship combat, to give archers and later musketeers a good platform to shoot from. It would seem that through out the 17th century as cannon(guns) became more in use, the stern and forecastles were lowered as the risk of boarding was reduced. I also believe that the curved shape at least in part may have helped in draining and preventing pooping, but i still like the gravity idea as well lol

well as for malcom x, it seems that the ticks dont like that negro blood yyaaaaayyyy!....i must say that i was quite glad to see some younger people about, keeps me from thinking that im THAT crazy...now i have sewing to do........ hope everyone will be ready for blackbeards!

......not AAAALLL of use were watching it.......i couldnt see where the heck they were talking about..........im now gonna re check for ticks........

the boat at black beards was the Kalmar Nyckle, which is a pinnace(though very similar to a galleon), and indeed the decks to slope, and so does the forecastle (though i never though it was enough to be uncomfortable)........indeed the lower decks also slope as well.....over all on most ships the decks all slope towards the center of the vessle...as to why, im not enttiirrelly sure....i believe it has much to do with weight distribution and attempts to lower the cnter of gravity on earlier ships...but im sure someone has a better answer......

.....did you get my hammock order?.........

any comments about the wig should be directed at our marine captain....Maddogge...... i shall bring the absinthe to this high society get together!