Capn_Enigma

Thank you Patrick, Morgan, Ed, Gentleman for your kind words. I appreciate it. GOF: Yes, I made the astrolabes. They incorporate even more work than is visible at first glance, as each astrolabe contains a number of plates for different latitudes. Morgan: Since I thought this might be of general interest, here is a pic of the backstaff with the measurements in centimeters. Most of the measurements are multiples or fractions of inches, but as I live in the metric world, it was easier for me to measure them this way. Note that the backstaff is 1.3 cm (half an inch) thick. The measurements are no absolute, each instrument was individual. For more information, I recommend that excellent book "Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings" by Dennis Fisher that has already been mentioned. With all my instruments I have used only materials and techniques that were available to the 17th century craftsman. The backstaff's parts are held together with mortise- and- tenon joints and bone glue. Oh, and Ed, while we are talking about materials: I don't think so... The frame is walnut, arcs are cherrywood and the sights are mahogany, so you'll have to up that a bit, I'm afraid. - unless you're talking a bag of doubloons, of course!

Here are a few pix of some of the instruments I've built: Backstaff Astrolabes Horometer

Glad you didn't say "... strip them to the waist, cover them in chocolate and leave them to the ants!" Hey! Where's that torture thread when you need it?

Maybe, but at that time, chronometers were not widely used on board a ship. Granted, there is always a slim possibility, but until proven otherwise, let's not complicate matters and just assume that, generally speaking, none were used. Technically perhaps, but the backstaff is an improved version of the cross-staff. If you mention it, one should also mention kamals and latitude hooks, in reverse chronological order. Even the astrolabe was not in much use during the GAOP, much less the quadrant. I mentioned them just for the sake of completeness. The backstaff was the instrument of choice for the discriminating navigator.

Neither sextants nor octants were sed during the GAOP. Neither were chronometers. Quadrants, astrolabes, or backstaffs only.

Dat mean you no canna find a ting onna list cuz ya no canna use Ctrl F for searchin. An itsa bad ting, dat, boss.

An internet list, be it complete as it may, amounts to nothing if the Ctrl- F command to find anything is suppressed with an anti- copy Java applet that takes the intelligence of a 9- year old to bypass. And particularly not with such a long list. My 2 Pieces of Eight.

Looks like we got a Darwin Award possible here!

Marie, I see you have already met our dear friend hitman. Here is a link to one of the threads he was disscussing.

Sink your savings in a boat!

Robert Englund. David Warner. (but then again, this has already been done).

There are lots and lotsa threads on the authenticity of earrings here on this board. Why don't you just read them first before you post yet another one? There is a search function, ye know?

Is this the same as "The Fish- Slapping Dance"?

If you want to buy the MTI soundtrack, then there are always offers for it on ebay. Question is, if you get it any cheaper there than at amazon. Other possibilities include garage sales or flea markets. BTW: I made a mistake in my above post. It should read:

Yeah and BTTF II had a cliffhanger, too: The DeLorean had been struck by lightning in mid- air and Marty McFly was left standing in the rain until the received the letter from Doc Brown that he had been teleported to the Old West. The time till the next movie was not as long as with Star Wars II to III, but all was not well at the end of BTTF part II. I have seen POTC2 twice, too, and will probably see it at least once more.

If you are really looking for a probable progenitor of Captain Jack Sparrow, my money would be on Kurt Russell's Captain Ron anytime. Dreadlocks, same somnambulistic attitude, walks unscathed through the greatest calamities with a mixture of ignorant bliss and grandiose cockiness. And, surprise, surprise: Captain Ron is a Disney movie, too.

First question: Of Course. Second: Very much so. Third: Out of the 17 titles, 8 are instrumental, 8 are vocal as sung by the actors/ Muppets and one is by John Berry as heard while the end credits are shown. I listen to album every now and again, and I am sorry, but I can really find no similarities with the POTC2 album, not even in the title you mentioned ("Treasure Island") from the intro of the MTI movie.

Again, it seems as if you had been misinformed. You can buy the MTI soundtrack at amazon.

Then you should not write Non sequitur. It is not for me to point out why and where they differ, but for you to point out why and where they are alike, which you failed to do.

I am afraid that you have been misinformed. The Muppet Treasure Island OST and the POTC2 OST are very different from another and they have practically nothing in common. Although Curry upstaged most of the Muppets in MTI, his performance does not remotely compare to Depp's in POTC (neither 1 nor 2). Curry played a very sinister and subliminally threatening Long John, while Depp's acting was light- footed and light- hearted, even in POTC2, where his character was more multi- layered than in part 1.

No evidence, no nothing. Thought as much. I rest my case.

The 23 ft. launch of HMAV "Bounty" could even support two masts. Here's a replica. Doesn't look much bigger than Jack's boat. (Note the swivel gun near the tiller!)

No, it's the only book I have on anything. What an exceptionally stupid thing to ask. His wife did perhaps not lead an extravagant lifestyle, but while he was alive, Morgan himself did. In short, in the best of buccaneer tradition, he squandered most of his money on alcohol, as he was a heavy drinker, gave some more away to bribe influential patrons during his stay in London and even bestowed some of the loot upon churches in Jamaica so that he would get a decent burial (a lot good it did him - in the great earthquake of 1692 the sea swallowed his grave and the adjacent church ). Says who? That settles Exquemelin's credibilty. I have yet to see your key witness. Will you ever present anyone? Start quoting eyewitnesses to back up your allegations. Without that, your apologetic pleadings are, excuse the candor, worth exactly nothing.

Your exclamation mark key is stuck... again.

That's right Patrick, the Panama raid yielded much less than what Morgan had hoped for. While 500 men had sacked Porto Bello and bagged 215,000 Pieces of Eight (=430 PoE for each man), the Panama raid saw about 1,200 men but netted only 200,000 Pieces of Eight (=160 PoE (!) ea). According to Exquemelin, Morgan kept a major portion of the spoils for himself. He then took a French leave, which more likely than not was a wise move, as he was about to be lynched by his fellow buccaneers. In all probability, Morgan had also Panama set ablaze, as the buccaneers felt all too well in the city and even intended to occupy and fortify it permanently as a base for Pacific operations. Morgan was quite aware that by the raid alone he had called the wrath of Spain upon himself and in order to avoid a grave and continuing politcal crisis, he made Panama uninhabitable for the buccaneers.