blackjohn

I have an excuse. The Pirate Brethren's mail list celebrates its 10th birthday today!

Interesting. I find the various state and local laws governing alcohol sales to be very interesting. How does that compare to Canada?

but why spoil good rum by putting it in cake?!?!?!? Well... I guess one could save the good rum, and use the "bad" rum for the cake...

and another 'nother one... Fred Travalena... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Travalena

I wish you the best of luck. I know it's not much, but if you ever need any charts, I'd be happy to give you whatever you need. Coast Pilots too.

Btw, is this a yearly event? We are seriously thinking about visiting next year, though it may be closer to the beginning of September than the end of it.

If I lived closer, I'd be all over this!!! Have fun!!!

rum... and bacon.

Drinking this as I type. It's pretty good. I prefer a little sweeter. Maybe I'll go back for seconds and taste more closely this time around

Congrats! Here's to many more!!!

I've pointed everyone who posted there to the thread on the Pirate Brethren's forum, with a note asking that, in order to preserve my sanity, they do me the courtesy of letting me know their intentions to attend, etc. The more the merrier, but I'm not a fan of surprises and walk-on reenactors. With walk-ons, you never know what you might be getting, from both a historical accuracy perspective, and more importantly, from a safety perspective.

If you plan on attending as a reenactor, and you haven't contacted me, you should probably do so. I don't want to discourage you from attending* but I'd rather not have people showing up out of the blue intending to participate, and expecting to have an allotment of camp space and firewood and what have you. Also note, discussion on this event is taking place here. To keep my sanity, I'm not going to be discussing it here, or on skirmish, frontier folk, the brethren's mail list, or any of the other places I post or lurk. Yrs&c, Blackjohn *Well, I might... it really depends on how accurate you are. If your stuff isn't up to snuff, then I am going to discourage you from participating.

That's where we are doing the planning.

An oldie but goodie... Scurvy Hanna from 2004.

Hence the origin of "kissed a girl and made her cry."

You sort of have it... with "Order Arms" the musket is carried in the right hand, the hand grasping the cock and trigger guard with the trigger guard turned forward. Because the hat is worn over the left eye, the right peak is well back enough that it doesn't interfere with the hat. On "Shoulder Arms" the musket is carried on the left side, the hand grasping the butt, cock in tight, trigger guard pointing backward.

You obviously are in need of a bigger hat!

That may be the case during the Revolution War. From what I remember, there are orders being issued from on high telling the officers to tell the men to turn their hats around the right way. The men were turning their hats around backwards, then dropping the back (now at the front) down to form a visor. Cocked hats don't offer much shade when worn right. And soldiers being soldiers... sometimes take to doing things the practical way over the "by the book" way. And as a grunt in the line, you really do have to push the limits of jaunty hat wearing! The position of a soldier under arms is such that his left eye is over his waistcoat buttons. With the left eye over the waistcoat buttons, a hat worn centered on the forehead would make for a very difficult "shoulder arms" due to the peak on the left hand side being in front of the shoulder. So the hat is worn with the peak over the left eye, and at a very jaunty angle.

So there I was, standing on the deck of a ship, and I wanted to check the sails. I looked up, and what did I see? The peak of my hat. So I turned it around, and then it dawned on me...

Unless, of course, she wants to do it for her own personal satisfaction. There are people out there who are like that. Shouldn't they be encouraged? Go Abigail go!

Loyalist's has a 12" barrel. That's not too huge, compared to the 16" on the English lock. http://www.loyalistarms.com/doglokpistl.html

Yeah, I know my group has talked about it often. I wear my grey hat backwards now and again. I'm pretty sure I picked the habit up from Foxe, who was the first person I recognize having pointed it out as appearing in illustrations of sailors from the period. Fwiw, you see it in at least two RevWar illustrations of British soldiers.

Wig curlers. Nice.

Awesome!

The phrase "better to burn out than fade away" suddenly entered into my mind.