'Beer Belly' Bellamy

Aye thank you Mr. Hook! Maybe my provenance helps hereby. Outsiders say that being grumpy and frightening is a kind of a swabian cardinal virtue

Thank you all for the welcome! This afternoon I took the first picture of me in my preliminary wardrobe. Somehow I has to start. I have already talked to my tailor, but the development and the making of a whole new wardrobe will cost it's time (and it's - more specifically - my money). So I will need a preliminary wardrobe. Some I found in my general equipment and some was recently ordered. But getting a pirate the right outfit is quite a task, because I somehow lack a pirating gentlemen's outfitters in my neighborhood. So this has to do it till my tailor and I get along For comparison me in the Royal Wuerttembergian service last year in June!

Permission to come on board... soon I will be known as 'Beer Belly' Bellamy, outside the trade I am known as Christian. I am a native German although my father was from Greece. My interest in seafaring and ships started about 4 decades ago and it never really faded although I developed other interest too. Since I was a kid I was attracted to history in general and in special I was really into the history of Lord Nelson and the voyages of James Cook, I read 'Treasure Island', 'Robinson Crusoe' and watched what ever TV offered me in pirate movies etc. In the 1990ies I was about to get involved in reenactment, but I had no good start, because the guys I met in my area were more interested in costumed drinking than in real living history and I for me do not need a cowboy's hat to enjoy a good beer. Meanwhile I got married and raised two daughters and volunteered as head (and brain) of a nonprofit youthclub. We were the first to celebrate Halloween, which was back then rarely known in our corner of Germany. Later I got at least involved in living history as a royal wurttembergian engineer officer (around 1910), because our nonprofit youthclub was housed within the walls of an old fort of the fortress of Ulm (build 1842 - 1859) and I was interested in the history and functionality of fortifications too, since I first encountered remains of that fortress as a kid - in fact I had grown up some 100 meters away from an old bastion, so this was very early my kind of playground and adventure place. What Indiana Jones did on the big screen I did (at least in some kind) in real live, searching submerged vaults and long abandoned corridors. From 2007 to 2010 I managed and organized a yearly fortress fest ("Ulmer Festungs Fest") on which I showed and explained up to 500 visitors "my" fortress at only one weekend. But official Ulm didn't liked my commitment. Back in the 1980ies Ulm was one of the "headquarters" of the German peace movement and those kind of slags rule my city for about the last 25 years and they had no fun seeing me succesful communicate history in uniform and with a spiked helmet on my head. For them all military is evil, so they found a way to kick me out of the fort. All efforts I made since 2010 to get somehow back into the walls of our fortress failed, because those ex-hippies don't want me there. And now is probably the time to end this chapter of living history and set sail to new shores. It's time to hang up the "Pickelhaub'" and quit the service for the king of Wurttemberg and become a pirate and do business on my own account If you are on facebook please visit my profil: https://www.facebook.com/christian.gollmar for hundrets of pictures of my past... ...and when on your way on facebook just visit my future: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Captain-Beer-Belly-Bellamy/678172755622010?fref=ts Or you visit my old website: http://pionier-bataillon-13.de/ I am an educated joiner/cabinet maker, skilful in other crafts and well trained self-promoter, so I will do great on my new journey (hopefully) So if one of you ever get stranded on the shores of the Danube River just give me a call and the drinks are on me