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Pirate primer puts language to some good context. If you liked it you might try "How to Speak Pirate" by Telfer, "Well Blow me Down" by Old Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy or "Piratitude: so you want to be a pirate" by the same authors. IF you like biographies I really enjoyed "Empire of the Blue Water" about Henry Morgan. I just finished On Stranger Tides and was blown away. It is a fantastical pirate zombie ghost story with Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, and soon to be Jack Sparrow with the new POTC 4 based on the book. I loved "Flint and Silver" and enjoyed "Pirate Latitudes a post Mortum published pirate adventure. I actually reviewed them in my blog if you are interested. I am receiving a couple soon to be published pirate books one from a friend and one from a new acquaintance I plan on reviewing soon.

I bought a 100 yards of 10oz duck canvas last summer, made a 30' x 20' rain canopy and am working on some viking tents (finishing them after the pirate ship is build) Anyways what I was getting at is the canvas is only resistant depending on the slope of the canopy. If water has time to accumulate even shrunken and pre-soaked 10 oz canvas water will soak and drip through. When I changed the slope of my canopy to 12' to 8' and double secured the poles to keep the canvas taut, this untreated canvas shed the water beautifully without bleeding through. Depending on what you are building and how it is built you may not need to treat it.

Hello, I just discovered this wonderfully pyratical forum and thought it queer to toot my own horn. Actually I just wrote a couple articles a bit back on female pirate wear for my friends and wanted to spam it hear. It's just a lovely glossary guide with photos and descriptions. You can follow the links to the full articles. I am not female and have only been period reenacting for so many years so please feel free to stick and bleed me for my inaccuracies. How to be pirate: The women’s guide. Part 2 This next part is how to look the Belle of the ball while still owning your rowdy empowered piratitude without selling yourself out for some stock online costume made of pleather, plastic, or pleats. To many of you seasoned and stylized swashbucklateers with gorgeous garb already this piece might be as a stone skipping across the water, but stay attentive for we will delve below the surface in articles to come. A female pirate of the era often dressed as sailors or captains, but in today’s pirate scene the sensualization of the sailing garb is quite acceptable. So to play the part in this parlay we must first dress the part. To begin we will learn the lingo and start at the bottom where a pirate keeps her booty. It wasn’t until the sexual revolution of the 1970s that women have been able to use their undies or small clothing to flaunt there sexual prowess, however in 16th century women started wearing Petticoats under their skirts to accentuate their female form. The petticoats or underskirts – are a wide skirt worn underneath clothing to visually widen the hips and accentuate the hourglass figure. Bloomers – Women’s baggy underpants fastened to just below or above the knee. Pettipants – another term for longer bloomer often made of cotton or lace with ruffles running down the side of the legs. Pettipants or long bloomers with a skirt hitched up, side or jagged cut, without showing excessive skin can really strike the difference between saucy tart and Victorian puritan. Corsets –Containing stiff “boning” the corset is worn to shape the torso into the hourglass figure. Historically, women larger healthier women were considered more attractive because of their child rearing potential. As society progressed and food sources became more readily available a thinner torso with wide birthing hips became the sexual standard. The corset, or quilted waistcoat, also known in many circles as a traditional torture device often aided the Victorian ideal of women fainting. Practically speaking a good corset need not be belted to full wait reducing lung diminishing capacity and should not be worn for extensive periods of time. Bodice (Boddess of the goddess) – Alternative to the corset, but worn exterior to the clothing in is the bodice. Laced in front or behind the bodice lifts the bust and shapes the figure. Often Bodices have less boning then corsets allowing for longer more comfortable wear. Among Renaissance faire-goers, the bodice dress or Irish dress is quite popular over an all-purpose chemise, for the dainty more alluring but less provocative of styles. Chemise – The chemise is a body length sleeved shift worn under a corset or bodice. How to be pirate: The women’s guide. Part 1

Well I am sure you are familiar with review sites for pirate culture like: The Bilge Monkey or The Pirate King especially has a nice nautical layout. Miss Scarlett Harlott has a fun romanticized feel certainly worth a gander. I've created a pirate blog on piratitude to chronicle my crew's backyard ship building: the Blundering Buccaneer's Big Black BlogSpot. A Piratapeadia (wikipedia) Caribbean experience that you are suggesting sounds intriquing. Keep us abreast.