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Still considering having KnitKriket do another Whalers Cap... if it gets colder.

I have order M'lady's new pc outfit. Maybe a gown or frock coat in time for the Salty Ball.

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No photos = imaginary boat!

Giggle... Tough crew here.

'Happy Birthday to ye matey!

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Welcome aboard Rick and Joel

Joel - Keep a weather eye out for The 6th Annual Pirates Salty Ball in Manchester CT.

Ahoy Calicojack -

A splendid affair indeed. Starts Fiday night with the ball and runs through Saturday and Sunday.

If you book in the Crowne Plaza Hampton Marina it's a one stop anchorage - hotel/ball/parking/fireworks and the festival within easy walk.

I haven't seen any date for 2016 but check Hampton Parks and Recreation (757-727-8311)after new year, they're the current organizers of the festival and tickets are ordered through them. Think end of May for the weekend. If I recall the tickets went on sale middle of March this year.

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Welcome Aboard the Pub,Calicojack.

From downstate 'n offshore, waving a hand.

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Breezy... sounds great.

West Marine or Hamilton Marine for parts,kits and paints.

Try 'Island Cutter' for a stern board.

Splendid news!

Oz -

New story or a continuation of the past characters?

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I thought that you might be a captive of Crown Prince Ludwig's party in Bavaria.

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'appy Birthday to ye Mister Christian!

Welcome aboard Mister Stokes.

It's interesting that so many rope working tools ended in the Thames' mud.

Jib -

I've no first hand knowledge but with the humorless employees of airlines and the TSA, I'd consider shipping it via FedEx to your hotel.

It'll cost you but you know where it is and not on a bureaucrat's list of 'look what I've found today'.

Slap.

Bo -

You're not alone on this one. I enjoy these events but I'm still a bit quiet around strangers especially when with the wife. She is a bit of a wallflower at these event and I don't press participation if she isn't comfortable though she has gotten better having met some of these folks.

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Welcome back Bloody Bill from ye voyage. Returning back to ye home port is a joy and a welcome.

BCarp -

Splendid.

What was the event/invasion?

Brit.Privateer -

Thanks, an interesting read... it could be expanded into an events table top display.

Me mind be not as agile as it once was but I recall some pubber posted in regards to Black Sea pirates awhile ago.

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Ahoy Mr. BaidaK -

Update - Search postings by pubber named Hermann in 2013

I'm finding more and more that 'consistency' is key. For example, I've been to some events that lean strongly toward history as a presentation and with that comes amazing encampment setups, trials, battles, live music and food cooked right in camp. When events like this start to loosen a set of standards, whatever they may be, the mode of dress becomes loose and indeterminate, and with it go so many things. Safety. Historic variety. Sailors. When a festival has more captains than sailors, I seldom enjoy them.

Agreed...

The last one I attended is becoming a carnival. Very little piratey left, it looks more like a rein-faire gone amuck. Shows and music run together and historical displays get less and less.

I understand the fund raising value of the event (a museum) but polyester clad pirates, funnel cakes, battery operated bubble-blowing guns, belly dancers and home improvement hawkers seem to take the edge off the reality.

Welcome aboard BaidaK Enjoy your stay at the Pub.

Hummmm... a Cossack kit, now that's something you don't see every day.

Rummy Wench - I thought Nixe or Loreley would be more suitable.

Just finished "Everyday Life in Early America" by David Freeman Hawke. Covered some interesting things I never new about colonial life. I never knew that the main farming technique was to cut a ring around a tree to kill it, thus the following year it will produce no leaves and create no canopy allowing light to reach the floor. Planting was then done around the dead tree. Little effort was made to remove the trees since the task was labor intensive and oxen a rare beast. The book also describes the labor that went into the creation of a saw mill and later a grist mill. Well written and an easy read.

Or to start an orchard on the site of an abandon privy.

A lot of insight into the lives of the early settlers... it is a wonder that they were successful at all.

Jib -

Book sounds interesting, I ordered it through the south american river company yesterday.

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All this musical talk...

The best inprovised instrument I've seen played recently was a gent tapping along with a Captain Thighbiter tune at Hampton's Blackbeard Festival (2015).

The guy was banging two empty Budweiser aluminum bottles together. Not very pc but it worked.

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