blackjohn

Ah-ha! Finally got around to researching this and found the same things as you. Pretty cool stuff.

Odd... Baltimore is a big place, with acres of space available. Did he concentrate his search on downtown alone? There are other venues... large hotels outside the city, including stuff there at BWI. Being an old Con-goer, I know the high end sites versus the more out of the way places.

Decisions decisions... having been to both more often than I'd care to relate all I can say is, they are both REALLY cool. And this, from a guy who has vowed to NEVER do Civil War! Williamsburg is cool, to us, for obvious reasons. You know, if you are so inclined you can go to a tavern in period clothes and hunt for the hard to find road where they strung up Blackbeard's crew. And so many other things... Gettysburg, on the other hand, has this... solemn quality. Even somber. It is just... impressive. You look out over that landscape and your mind's eye can see those men marching that great distance under withering fire... or you clamber about the rocks and you wonder what a hellish nightmare it must have been... the whole place is just full of that bizarre feel associated with a battle... and who knows, maybe you'll even see a ghost... Also, Gettysburg has two attractions for the pirate reenactor. There is a great 18th century tavern in town. I enjoy it just as much as the taverns at Williamsburg. And... Dirty Billy's Hats! Yes, one of the best hatters we have is right there in Gettysburg, waiting to sell you an amazing hat!

Cheeky Duchess! Ahoy there, dear moderator... least I suffer more slings and arrows, wouldst thou be so kind as to place thine finger on the "Edit Topic Title" button. :angry:

But hey, the more you do they easier it gets, right???!!!??? I found it much easier today to ride the exercise machine for 20 minutes. My mind didn't scream nearly as much as it did yesterday. They say it only takes two weeks to create a good habit.

It's cool that that works for you. Maybe it has something to do with maintaining a healthy weight as opposed to getting back down to a healthy one. I've noticed, during those times when I was in good condition, my sneaky little mind would take the "better than nothing" and eventually corrupt it to... nothing! Tricky thing, the mind.

It's a great purple too! (Greg partially obscured by smoke after firing Scurvy Hanna's blunderbuss)

Ok, that was tough. Not from a physical standpoint, but from a mental one. My brain kept shouting, "no, no, no, let's do something else." But Star Wars Episode 1 was on HBO, so I watched it while I pushed/pulled/pumped the excerisce machine. One day down... who is next with a success story. I see Rogue Mermaid signed her life away.

Cool. Solidarity!

I'm not sure if "guezo" is an early/alternate Spanish word for bone or if it is something else??? Checking Jim's database of online historical charts, the earliest we seem to have for Key West is 1850s. http://historicals.ncd.noaa.gov/historical...als/histmap.asp Keyword search on Key West. I'll see if I can find something somewhere worth sending your way. Worst case scenario, you could reverse engineer a modern edition of a chart. I think the public would get a kick out of if.

Sure. I thought you might find it interesting or maybe useful in some way. If I could find a period chart of that area for you I'd send it your way. Not that my vote matters, but I like the idea of a bermuda sloop with that name. On the other hand, I'm also fond of the name Merry Christmas. Hmmm... you are handy with a pen and ink. If I send you a copy of a modern chart, do you think you could copy it/turn it into a 1720 version?

You may find this of interest... http://keys.fiu.edu/gazetteer/00000338.htm Fwiw, technically, Key West is not in the Caribbean. From an international boundary perspective, if memory serves, it is actually in the Atlantic.

Fascinating. I'm certainly going to look that one up!!!

Thanks. It actually does, but my situation is as follows, over the years I have come to realize I don't even want to do mock combat. I want to be able to *hit* the other guy. Preferably hard, or at least in a way that my opponent and I can say, "yeah, that was a kill shot." Ymmv, and that's ok. Jack, thanks. I'll check out the website and get his info there.

It has been two months since I last wore my pirates clothes. Considering the amount of feasting and drinking, and drinking... and drinking... that I have done since then, I'm sure I'll be in for a shock when it comes time to get dressed for the next event. (Mmm... rum belly...) Thus, in the spirit of threads long dead, I am creating the newest edition of an age old favorite, the weight loss thread. Here's my promise to you. Since coming to the pub is a treat, starting tomorrow, I will deny myself the pleasure of coming to the pub, unless I have done a minimum of 20 minutes excercise beforehand. The first place I post will be here, which should help me turn this into a good habit. It should be simple, really. Get up, work out for 20 minutes. Log in. And after two weeks, it'll be a cake walk. Who is with me?!?!?!

I believe this link has been posted on the forum once or twice in the past, but here it is again: http://www.imacdigest.com/axe.html

You must have contact info for him... I'd love to invite him to our '07 events!

Thanks for the plug. Fwiw, a very large percentage of the Pirate Brethren spent a very large percentage of their reenacting time doing medieval. Most of them are more than happy to bash each other with whatever may be at hand. Me? I found I have a bad habit of wanting to stick people. My main interest today lies in trying to find better and safer ways of sticking people without it looking too modern. As an aside, here's a link to a movie of Scurvy Hanna and Palmetto goofing around with swords.

I think I met him once last year... seemed a decent fellow. It is unfortunate that he's in Maryland, that the Pirate Brethren is in Maryland, and we've never really crossed swords... errrr... I mean paths.

Sadly, it looks like chances of seeing it on the big screen are gone. Amazon has a "notify me" page for the dvd. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JPF...PFB/imdb-adbox/

That whole red state/blue state thing rears its ugly head early on, eh?

Great big list here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon

Quoting the Marine Chart Division's Nautical Chart Manual... A bare rock (islet) is an extremely important positional reference for the mariner since it can be seen at all tide stages. A bare rock near a submerged rock also serves as an excellent natural marker for the submerged hazard. Islets shall be shown to scale, when possible, or by the standard islet, or bare rock, symbol (K 10) for small-scale representation. Elevations associated with these features shall be shown in slanted type (6 pt. Swiss Light Italic). When applying rocks that bare to small-scale charts, the cartographer may have to exaggerate their size in order to retain the feature. The minimum charting size for a bare rock (or islet) is 0.65 mm by 0.5 mm. This size limitation is imposed to avoid charting “dots” which could be misinterpreted as imperfections on the chart reproducibles and consequently removed in the reproduction processes. Where bare rocks clustered together prohibit complete representation at chart scale, those considered most threatening to navigation shall be charted. However, two or more bare rocks should not be merged into one symbol if they can be shown separately with some distinction. :) From the NCM Vol 2, Definitions: CAY (ALSO KAY, KEY). A low, flat island of sand, coral, etc., awash or drying at low water; a term originally applied to the coral islets around the coast and islands of the Caribbean Sea. A key; a comparitively small and low coastal island of sand or coral. Pronounced "key." The spelling "kay" is common in the West Indies. ISLAND (ACCORDING TO COAST SURVEY USAGE). A land area (smaller than a continent) extending above and completely surrounded by water at mean high water; an area of dry land entirely surrounded by water or a swamp; an area of swamp entirely surrounded by open water. ISLAND (ACCORDING TO GENEVA CONVENTION). A naturally formed area of land, surrounded by water, which is above water at high tide. ISLET. A small island. QUAY. A structure of solid construction along a shore or bank which provides berthing for ships and which generally provides cargo-handling facilities. A similar facility of open construction is called a wharf.

Many years ago, when I was but a lowly private in the army, one of our corporals had "connections." The exact details of these connections were a mystery to me then, and in fact are still a mystery to me today, but the lay of it was this... he got his hands on rum, lots of rum, and he passed it along to the regiment. Usually this rum was "from Jamaica." But once he brought some very special rum... rum recovered from a shipwreck... a shipwreck that had been buried for close to two centuries... it had been uncovered by a hurricane... someone recovered some bottles... and with his connections our corporal obtained one. That was the smoothest, most powerful rum I have ever tasted. Amazing. This is just one of the many fascinating opportunities that have come my way through reenacting, and truth be told, among all the these, the 173 year old rum ranks only in... the top five! :)

Hey blackjohn...if you're looking for any of the "older" new figures, LMK. I broke my collection up when they came out with a fig I couldn't get except off eBay and now they're just sitting around. (This offer excludes all droids and imperial officers, both of which I still collect from time to time. Any protocol droid is MINE. Colonel Wullf Yularen! Whoo hoo! I knew Hasbro wouldn't let me down! ) Sure, hit me with a pm or something and we can talk about it... thanks!