'Beer Belly' Bellamy

60 views but no comment - is something wrong with my request, is it to odd? I just want to know to avoid future errors! Yours truly 'Big Belly'

Maybe one of my primary skills is to pattern (or talking big?), I think that is a good skill for an old pirate like me. You know, the looting ships business is more for younger lads, telling the tales is more appropriate for riper dudes. Unfortunately I am not a native english speaker. A few days ago I started to renovate me a chest (or a locker) to use it at future pirate encampments. While I was thinking how to alter an old wooden locker to my new needs I started to spin a backstory of this locker, how I got it, who the prepossessor was etc. And suddenly a muse was kind enough to me to make up a really nice story (at least I believe so). Now I would need a little help! I think general translation I could achieve, but as soon at it comes to english punctuation and sentence construction some problems occur, because it is way different than german punctuation and sentence construction and I am already infamous in making very long sentences at all, not even easy for germans to read. And maybe I could use some advise in period language too. I don't think I would like to have every second word an "Arrrrrr" or other comic pirat talk, but maybe a small dose of colorful language could make my story a little more pirate like. So would/could somebody help me with this? I would much appreciate it! Here's my text: "You probably all know Davy Jones!? Well this Davy Jones had a whole different life than that he is now known for. He was a shipmaster and eventually a part-time privateer. And one day I met him. I don‘t remember the exact year but it was a Friday, a Friday October 31st! A few weeks prior I had joined not completely voluntarily the crew of the then not as infamous captain Flint, as he now is. The ship I was hired, more likely pressed - oh you know those brits - on before was a three-masted square-rigged Bristol merchantman on it‘s way to the West Indies and this ship was taken by Flint‘s crew and they asked me to join - you could probably imagine how pirates ask - because I was a shipwright back than. At the day I should meet Davy Jones, Flint was hunting his ship for about half of the day till he could get close enough to start a short bombardment and finally board the other ship around sunset. We took all what was worth a honest pirate's sweat to carry aboard. Personally I took the shipmaster's own locker, because I was in the need of one, but I was noble enough to let him his undies, I just wanted the locker. As now one of the shipwright's on Flint's crew I had the privilege to choose so. So I came in the posession of Davy Jones locker, which I still have in use. That is much more funny now, if you reconsider what later became of Davy Jones. I state as often as a situation calls for, that I am the one who once robbed Davy Jones locker! Funny, isn‘t it?" https://pyracy.com/index.php/gallery/image/7831-badman-tell-mo-tales/

Thank you very much! This is a good start. Great references, now I could realy picture the scene! So I presume there were a prickyard needed around and a sawmill. I did search what kind of wood grows and were used in the caribbean: - Guaiacum (Pockholz in German) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignum_vitae) - Teak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teak) - Caribbean Pine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_pine)

An example for architecture in 1715: But this is a fort built by the french in northern America: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Michilimackinac

I would like to know how a pirate town would look like in the Caribbean, of which buildings such a settlement would be composed, what architectural style would have been common? Why would? Because I am dreaming of layout, even planning a pirate town, because such a project would drive me to learn more about this topic. Maybe someday there will be a studying model of such a pirate town. I am comming from the Wilhelminic reenactment (the era around 1900) and there are tons of books, pictures and photographs, there are even still lots of buildings to find nowadays. But I was very unskilled in digging out pictures or drawings of such stuff from the Caribbean from around 1715. Every useful comment would be much apprechiated and every hint to good books etc. would be much thanked!

A welcome from me too! Funny, I was just about to start a thread about "how would a pirate vilage/town look like". So keep your eyes open, it will start in a few moments (Edit!) Tataaa: http://pyracy.com/index.php/topic/19482-how-would-a-pirate-vilagetown-look-like/