William Brand

The best part of any good conversation with friends and fellow pirates, and friends who ARE fellow pirates, and pirate friends who aren't fellows at all, is the moment when you first divide from the topic at hand to those tangents that lead one or many willy nilly down every road of thought and every segue of distraction to places both funny, revealing, tragic and to uncomfortable pauses only filled with observation about uncomfortable pauses. Thus is life and good conversation. We don't see enough of it here. Not like we once did.

I know it's been over a year since I bothered, but I'm hungrier than I expected to be, at nearly one in the morning, and this looked very good. Morrocan Lamb bites with preserved lemon chutney and roasted garlic hummus.

He looks great in uniform. Actually, either uniform. The best to you and yours!

Some threads just need to be bumped from time to time. Mister Ohlandt has a great example of sailor's kit. https://www.facebook.com/cranohlandt/media_set?set=a.544267254075.2067643.217401146&type=3

Welcome aboard! I'm from the States.

Did any member of the crew actually attend the Fort de Chartres: 43rd Rendezvous event? I shouldn't list it if it wasn't attended by anyone of us.

Glad to have you aboard!

Actually, I think I'm less right, because you see such "minor defenses, fortifications, built or established outside the principal fortification limits, detached or semidetached" on drawings of warships sometimes. If you've ever seen a warship with its weather decks covered in what looks like walkways and extra walls, but built above the working deck, I think those are what they mean. I've seen what they're talking about, but I can't find a picture at the moment.

I've always understood 'outworks' as any significant structure used for protection, safety or defense, such as bulwarks, taffrails, and any number of solid wall enclosures used for protection on the weather decks, but I'd love to know if I'm anywhere near the mark on this.

I'm glad it sold. I really, really wanted it, but I've no float money at the moment. I will own one eventually.

The St. Louis Renaissance Faire is ongoing and Put-in-Bay is coming up quickly. There are also some new events posted to the community calendar on the Pub, for anyone seeking something new in their neck of the woods. St. Louis Renaissance Faire - May 18th-June 9th ~ St. Louis, Missouri Put-in-Bay - June 28th-July1st ~ Put-in-Bay, Ohio

Fantastic find! I'm already archiving it. Thank you!

"GOODNIGHT, CAPTAIN STERLING!"

I have found no period reference to walnut ink. Oak Gall Ink, Soot Ink, & Carbon Ink were used in Europe, but European walnuts have less tannin, so walnut ink is a product of the New World and the Orient. The North American Walnut was used to produce ink for writing and the printing press, but the question remains. How early was it used?

speakeasy (n.) "unlicensed saloon," 1889 (in New York "Voice"), from speak + easy; so called from the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police and neighbors. The word gained wide currency in U.S. during Prohibition (1920-1932). In early 19c. Irish and British dialect, a speak softly shop meant "smuggler's den.""

I was surprised to see it in such good condition. It's a great find.