Bos'n Cross

Im sorry to hear that Callenish, i do hope that all works out for the best for m'dear Salty <3 my regards to the lady!

Oy all, sorry wasnt able to finish them all in time(work and mta in the way) sorry, ill have to jump in another time

i still hate you for that coat Master Henry.......hhhhaatttteeeeee.....i DARE you to leave it laying about somewhere...........

Twas such a very good time all around! Was great to see all me olde friends again, and met some new ones......all around i think we all learned alot from this event....like laundry...lol..and that some people shouldnt wear the same hats...........HEY KIDS..LETS DANCE!.......see you all at fells point

It is apparently said that after Woodes Rodgers showed up, he accepted the kings pardon, iv found more references to his retiring as a planter after that, bbuutt the welsite of the above mentioned republic of pirates paints a different picture. Accoring to them, he afterward persued charles vane and other pyrates, and worked as a privateer in the war of the quadruple alliance and war of austrian succession, in the latter of which he was captured by the spaniards, and presumably died in captivity......i dont have the actual book(though now i might wanna get it) so id definatly like to see the sources.....any of you guys hear anything to this effect?

i believe the original question was answered, now were just enjoying ourselves/ learnin...lol and daniel now i concede that you are right about the rear on the snow being the main lolol now im not thinking things all the way through , iv gotten way to used to having a mizzenmast around lolololol.....indeed maybe 3 or more masted schooners were a 19th century thing, hhumm i dont even recall anything above a 2 masted schooner during the war of 1812......ill have to look around...

This be a snow, the trimast mentioned above is on the rear mast of the ship(mizzen mast) it doesnt go all the way up though.....not sure if you could really call a snow 3 masted because of that.......i dont think they were all too popular.....not even sure that we have any recreations of one today........

that made me laugh ssooooo hard, well done shay, bloody brilliant.......

i think i might actually watch this....that edward O'Keeffe is such a good looking fellow.....dont know about that other guy.....

No, snows and schooners have only two masts. Sloops usually have one mast, and although I've heard of sloops with two masts, I've never heard of one with three. Overlap, if it existed at all, would be negligible. Of course, the word "ship" is often used in a more general sense for any large sailing vessel with multiple decks, but in that sense 97% of the vessels would be ships, not 45%. as slight side note about schooners( i agree about snows though) schooners can have as many mast as you want as long as the forward mast (formast) is shorter than or the same height as the one behind it (mainmast), and they tend to be fore and aft rigged......just a little aside, for i work on a 3 masted schooner

i still vote the sloop....a frigate would be square sailed, which would take alot more people to man....as well as the fact that fore-n-aft rigged vessels( like sloops and schooners) are easier to man, maneuver, and sail ........... if your hunting pyrates...then you at least need to be able to catch up with them....if they are much faster and more maneuverable, then they might get away more often than not.............as far as iv seen, one of the reasons pyrates didnt scrap with navy vessels very often, was simply because theyd run off......most pyrate ships that were captured seemed only to have been because of the crew being surprized in a drunken stupor (roberts's crew, jack rackham).......

vverryyy nice mr.foxe....yee give us all something to aspire twards!

down among the dead men is a gggrrreeaattttt song......loves it soooo much.......

"Captain kidds farewell to the seas" was written right after his death,the "maid of amsterdam" is absoululy ok, as well as some earlier versions of "blow the man down" unfortunatly, most shanties that we sing today are from the nineteenth century , though many of those are probably based on earlier songs....we just may not have the proof yet....im sure there are others..i just cant think of them all now......hope it helps some.....

Happy natal Day!!......i swear birthdays happen too often for others.......but not often enough for me....

HAAPPPYYYY NATAL DAY MATE!.....you could give me a certain ticken weskit for your birthday...i love presents........

wow now thats a quick press gang........damn pyrates.....

does anyone have a link to that discussion/ is there any good documentation on said sword?...i must admit, i dont know too much about weapons....i spent so much time on the clothes......

90! very well done to ye mother! and mmaannyy more to her...i hope to keep a tickin that long!

aayyee the glorious smell for research in the morning.......hey callenish, who makes the top sword?

IIIIMMMMMM goooiinnggg!!!!......mr.cross well be going to fells point for sure!

damn...now thats a nice find......technically its still archeology and therefore scientific research! yyaayyyyy!

ill jump in on this round, though iv never done this....any excuse to draw lol

OH NO HE DIDNT!