Stynky Tudor

A group of us that ‘ave hijacked the Rabble Rousing > Pyrates as Living History thread, be talking about meeting up in Baltimore, Maryland some time soon. According to MapQuest that be at least a 4 hour drive for you. If that not be to far, you be more than welcome to join us. Or at least you can join us once we figure out the what, when and where. Actually I think we know the what, it be the when and where that still needs to be worked out.

Arr, a pirate I be as well.

Arr, it sounds like we all be in similar boats as it were, isolated pirates looking for a fellow hearted rabble rousers. This getting together be the making of a fine plan! Between the group of us, Capt. Cat, Capt. Flint, Dorian, MWCheryl and myself, Baltimore seems to be the central location. Is there anyone else? I be up for a 3 hour drive, I mean sail and probably an overnight stay. Who’s with me? What are we waiting for? Do ye want to drink or drive, I mean fight? Ok, just a cup of coffee be fine.

For the last couple or three Sundays I be showing up for the Sunday evening live chat but, there doesn't seem to be anyone else around and no conversations to join in with. Granted I be showing up on the late side of 10:30 east coast time... Has the live chat thing been happening and I'm just showing up to late?

Arr Mad Woman Cheryl, a bellow and 'n 'allar be sounded as soon as we can decide on a port or tavern to meet up at. You be not that far from Capt Cat in Virginia and Capt Flint be there close by in Maryland, I think I'll be the one taking the longest voyage. Anyone got ideas where to meet?

Aye, a demotion indeed.

Ahoy, I’ve just got to chime in here. I have to agree with DuCouer, Tim Roth in The Musketeer movie makes and excellent movie bad guy. Though there aren’t any Pirates per se, there are a few muskets fired or maybe they’re pistols. In any case, I think the fight scenes are really fun and way over the top. There’s a lot of jumping around and hanging off the sides of buildings and don’t forget the fight scene a top ladders. In fact I think that ladder fight idea was borrowed for a Xena episode. Anyway, I recommend The Musketeer, very fun, non-historical, silly.

Welcome a board DuCouer

Ahoy Capt.Flint, thank you for the Deer Creek information, I’ll be giving them a call shortly. As for your images, if they already be in a digital format, I’m not sure how to help you remotely. I know that I had some trouble uploading my avatar and photo album images, it be likely that my computer and router firewalls got in the way. Since I have access to an outside web server, I just uploaded my images there a typed in a URL web link, that seems to have done the trick. If your images not already be in a digital format, if you like you can send them to me parcel post, I’ve got a working scanner ‘ear and enough web space to host the images until you get things figured out.

Aye Cascabel, your toy box be full of fine arms and weaponry, really gorgeous pieces too. You mentioned that some of them be custom built by yourself. Is this something that you do for hire or just as an enthusiast?

Arr Capt.Cat, I see the cannon ball be shot over to me court now. As soon as we start getting week-ends with out so much rain, we should make plans.

Ahoy there Black Peral and Jacko, welcome to this here board.

Capt. William, I might just take you up on joining the Seadogges list serve and thanks you for the kind welcome aboard.

Aye, work in progress pictures be good enough fer now. Avast, get that scanner fixed or replaced, it would be neat to see those diagrams as well.

Arr Pirate Suliel welcome aboard, and that be a fine pirate coat of arms, skull and crossed swords you have there on yer web page. Any examples of that there exploding produce?

Arr Capt. Flint, thanks fer letting me know about that there wheellock program on the History Channel, I must have just missed it. Do you have any pictures of said flintlock? Do you have a web link fer Deer Creek Industries?

Arr Jarmaica, Having worked a little in entertainment, I understand what it is to miss one’s mark, not come in on cue and have nothing happen as scheduled or according to plan. The intension of my comment was not meant to be grousing and was just meant as a comment. As for getting involved and lending support, I couldn’t agree with you more. Even though we had left our tricornes at home, in our none period Elizabethan Sea Dog garb we were stopped several times for picture opportunities, directions to the bathroom and asked about the day’s scheduled events. Looking to get more involved, we all got a kick out of people talking to us as though we worked for the festival, we were just taken back by it a bit. In fact at one point when we had wandered a ways from the festival, I found my 13 year old daughter giving driving directions to a family in search of the festival. Like I said, we all had a blast and will definitely go again next year.

Aye, piracy has been happening long before recorded history to be sure. My point wasn’t that piracy started with the Elizabethan Sea Dogs, but was just my opinion as to what time frame in history I think should be considered the “Golden Age of Piracy” while also lending support to the relevance of pirate costumes at renaissance period festivals.

Arr Capt Weaver, I've got a strong interest in wheellock weapons myself. I've only done a basic search on the internet for them and like kits, haven't had much luck finding more than a couple sources though. There be a program or two on the History Channel about early firearms, but they always seem to gloss over the wheellock, going straight from hand held cannons to the flintlock. Would mind taking some "in process" pictures of your wheellock construction and sharing them with the board, or at least me if no one else is interested? And wow, that book sounds amazing! Any chance you can tell us what the title is? I would love to see copies of the diagrams?

Aye Capt. William, New Orleans be a fine place to form a pirate'n crew. Do you already be part of a crew presently? Or just be looking to form one in memory of brother Laffite?

Great Cat! Got any ideas on what we should to do next? The Virginia Renaissance Faire in Ladysmith is just finishing up it's last week-end, this week-end. With all the rain, the faire site has been pretty muddy and with more rain predicted... I hope it's not a total wash for the organizers. (no pun intended) I know there be a Renaissance Festival in Maryland sometime in the summer, maybe we can meet up there. Oh hell that's too long to wait, we should just make plans to meet somewhere.

Thanks :-P

Well technically Virginia isn’t landlocked either, but I do be inland a fer bit, just north of Harrisonburg and JMU. According to Map Quest, I be at least a couple or three hours away from the Chesapeake, Alexandria, Baltimore and the like. Being originally from California, sitting in my carriage for stupid amounts of time doesn’t seem undoable when done in the name of fun. After a spy of CaptCat’s profile, I see that the crew of the Matriarch be in Alexandria, Virginia as well. We should all attempt a sort of gathering of our own, maybe a point in between.

Obviously I can’t write a coherent sentence either... Anyway, you know what I ment. Ah ha! I found thee edit button and fixed me typeo in me previous post.

Pirate Charity, I see a lot of posts here that reference clothing patterns and it looks like a couple people have even hijacked your thread and started talking about hats. ( Now people, please try and stay on topic *sigh* ) Ok, if you’re looking for some great visual reference, there’s always the classic pirate drawings and paintings of Howard Pyle. I’ve done a internet search but, can’t seem to find a good one-stop repository of his images online. Some time ago, I a saw a great coffee table type picture book of his works, it was awesome and out of my budget. At the time I just thought that I would go back and pick it up later or maybe wait to see it on remainder, well I think we all know how that turned out. The couple books that I have purchased of Howard Pyle’s works have been disappointing. The graphic plates look horrible, poor quality black and white reproductions, dark, muddy halftones that look like bad Xerox copies. You should also check out NC Wyeth, he was a student of Howard Pyle and did some great pirate themed paintings as well. If you’re looking for something a bit more accessible, I think the “Elite” books series of Sea Dogs, Buccaneers and Pirates, illustrated by Angus McBride are great. Unfortunately, there’s only a small handful of MacBride’s illustrations in each book. I still think they are well worth it, if not for the illustrations then for the history and information. In fact Osprey publishing, has a whole slue of related period books. http://www.ospreypublishing.com/ Elizabethan Sea Dogs 1560-1605 http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_deta...e=S0153~ser=ELI Buccaneers 1620-1700 http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_deta...e=P9123~ser=ELI Pirates 1660-1730 http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_deta...e=P7066~ser=ELI