Dread Pyrate Greyhound

I do tons of pirate artwork, and i just wrote some pirate themed poetry, i definatly would like to get on on this. take a look at my gallery on deviantart, and tell me what you think. http://edward-smee.d...rt.com/gallery/ let me know if you plan on using any of my works.

I made to Blackbeard fest in the 2010 season and had a blast!!! don't think i saw you guys though... unless you were the privateers camp. Since i spent most of my time elsewhere at the festival.

This is a pretty entertaining show, I used to watch it before we cancelled the cable. I also remember a guy bring in a blunderbuss... so of coarse they went out and shot it! It was so funny cause it didn't work the first time.

"Absent chicken coop"

The year that the Great Lakes Medieval Faire had a pirate themed year, where pirates were playing oppasite king Aurther, There was a pirate captain on cast name 'Captain Tiberious Dirk' of the galleon 'Enterprise' and they have puns like that for characters' names every year.

Welcome mate! I know from browsing the web and looking at sites that no quarter given has a tremendously extensive merchants page on their site you may want to take a look at. http://noquartergiven.net/merchant.htm

Thanks for all the help mates, I think I've figured out the type of hat I'm going for,

My ship is the 46 gun galleon 'Sea Reaper'. When a French Marqui brought a fast, heavily armed war galleon into the Caribbean and started meddling in the Governor of Tortuga's affairs with the Buccuneers, The Governer Struck a bargain with Greyhound. Greyhound hunted down the Meddling Frenchman and boarded his supperior vessel and made her his own. He then refit her for pyracy by painting her black and red with Gold trim and dying her sails red. Greyhound also placed carvings and images of Death about her hull, the most glorious of which was a Grim Reaper merman Figurehead. Here are her specs as far as i've been able to figure them, minus length sail area, and all that. Captain: Gabriel Drummond alias, Greyhound Affillation: The Devil's Brood, The Brethren of the Coast Ship Type: French War Galleon Crew size: 200-300 pirates Armnement: 46 bronze cannons, Masts and Rig: 4 (square-rigged and fore and aft and square rigged on mizzen) I have actually written a song about the Sea Reaper. Also, while we're on the subject of ships, i do ship commisions, So if anyone wants a really nice picture of their galleon/ frigate/ sloop/ whatever to hang in their house, I could draw it for a price. i do have a few pictures of ships I've drawn in my gallery, if anyone needs an idea of my style.

Captains fulfilled the duties of priests on board, as clergy were consided bad luck, and someone had to 'Commit their bodies to the deep' So in theory, Captains were priests, but like CaptainB said, It wasn't legally binding. ships and the Sea were a whole other world, i would think the marriage would only be considered binding on board ship by other men of the sea. so if pirates were married (ex Anne Bonney & Calico Jack) they were of the sea and to them the marriage was binding, while the rest of the world most likely considered marriage at sea a sham and outrage.

Thanks mates, I'll check these out.

Not quite historically accurate, but it is a fairly nice ship.... and the bronze cannons are beautiful peices.

I took a look at their site, and couldn't none of the hats seemed to fit. ya know? ya have to find the right hat

My Connundrum began when I decided that I would portray a buccaneer active from the 1660s to roughly the end of the 1680s in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. He is a gentleman pirate so naturally he needs to be at the hight of fashion for this time frame. I will probably get a hat from Jeff MacKay as I have talked to him before. But I need to know my options and what is most accurate. a bicorn with the front turned up is ideal, but would make me slightly resemble Captain Teague, which I don't want. A bicorn with the side turned up looks good on me and gets away from this problem but I'm pretty sure it was more common to earlier decades of the 1600s. A tricorn is definatly out because as far as I know, they only came around in the 1690s. I wouldn't mind wear something like Barbossa's flat hat. and I am also a huge fan of any and all of the hats from "The Man in the Iron Mask" If anyone can give me some advise on the proper hat a gentleman would wear in the 1660s-1680s, I would appreciate it.

The End The sun has risen, the sun has set Their gallant deeds we shant forget The final king has gone at last The sand has fallen from the glass On Guinea's sweltering Coast The last king of the sea has gone to hell to roast He was the best of the Best, But now he's gone to rejoin the Rest Black bart, was the last of his breed Who on the trade of nations did feed He was the very last to fall But before he did, he acheived it all he looted and stole, just like his mates But after four years, now he shares their fate Now, like them, he rests below Down to Jones they all did go The last pirate has died, tis true Rejoined in the Locker by me and you The Golden Age is over at last And gone are the theives before the mast Their legacy will live on howe'er The pirate age will be remembered forever For though they are long and gone They are now immortal and a hundred times as strong

My best guess... Sloop of war would have taken about a month to a year. while a frigate would have probably taken 2-3 years.

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I have found that tying the hair back with a strand of hemp rope works excelently. Simply wrap about a foot of hemp around the tuft of hair a few times and tie a bow. I did this for a while and was emensley pleased for two reasons. 1. Rope will be found on a ship, this is historically plausible and very likely 2. If made tight enough, and wraped enough, the friction of rope on rope will keep it tied the entire day.

To me, what makes a pirate is what's in his/her soul. the lust for freedom, adventure, and to make your fortune on your own terms. Feeling a rolling deck beneath your feet. Casting your cares into the sea and the Devil take tomarrow! Living for the moment, and thumbing your nose at society and everyone who'd try and restrain you from being who you are. Living simply for the sheer thrill all this will bring is what makes a pirate. But perhaps the great pirate Black Bart said it best when he proclaimed, "A merry life and a short one shall be my motto"

Sand.

Since pirates of the Caribbean came out, it has apparently become a given for anyone dressed as a pirate to make a "Why is the Rum gone?" refference. That was such a funny scene.

I thought dialogue and acting were fine. Though in general i don't judge movies for the same reasons i don't like people bashing my favs. The only time I'll judge a movie is if family members drag me to something juvinile, or if I fallow a series and I find a sequal lacking.

Train.

There are lots of reasons a good movie won't be successful, wether for bad reviews, or poor box office numbers, maybe both. But some pirate movies were really good and don't have a good reason as to why they failed. Prime examples and personal opinion: Cutthroat Island and Treasure Planet. Thoughts anyone?

All my friends have a thing for pointing replica pistols at me, that's when I realized if I was to be able to use improv and get myself out of it, I would needed something to say.... this is what I came up with: Come now, we're both Gentleman o' the Sea, Surely we can parley some terms? Got a whole bunch I wrote for other occassions too.

That bites.