Capt Thighbiter

Yup for sale for sure. The guy who owns her is on Long Island. In fact, the Bounty will be in Port Jefferson Ny, here in the Island, Nov 6 & 7 as some filming takes place on her. Port Jeff in turn has declared a Pirate Festival on that weekend and all crews are invited to come up and be a part of the mayhem. Contact Ye Pyrate Brotherhood for more details. O' course, we are performing too, if that sways ye one way ( or t' other).

Our thanks to The PLankhoue Crew, for being such good hosts; The Sons of the Sea, for a superb Sat night feast and great company;

the Crew of the Archangel for being good audience, even when we strayed into the classic Rock tunes!

Duncan and the Crew of the Vigilant, for lettin' us amatuers fire long guns ( even though my Master Gunner, Mr. Cannon, forgot the powder!).

An altogether great weekend, and we hopes to see all next year!

If one had a tractor trailer available, how cool would it be to literally bring all the stuff that would fit into a ships hold? Bales of cotton, barrels of molasses, logwood plus all the spars, masts, rigging and ropes, to show this off to patrons!

Dam, the crew of Vigilant AND Archangel and the Plankhouse crew? It's gonna be Fells Point all over again!

Just remember, tonite is last night of Roshashanna (sp?) and traffic is gonna be extra heavy.

Ahoy mates, twill be a good 'un, as The Brigands host the Fri nite festivities, including the crowning of this years Margret

( see the event website on exactly who she WAS and IS). Sat is expected to be no less entertaining and with a great site such as this, steeped in history and stuff, is right up yer alley for Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Stupid duplicate post!

Alas, The Brigands were in negotiation to perform at the St Louis Pirate Festival, but tis not to be this year, at any rate.

Have a bloody blast and tip the crather o' rum for us lads!

Scurvy Ye can use our tune "Flemish The Rope", an instrumental we wrote - on our Pirate Scum CD. Snappy litle tune that sounds very piratey.

I want one!

For a trigger mechanism , try using a fire sprinkler solenoid, kinda like a dump valve. IT actuates very quickly, to release the CO2 the same every time. Then you can just regulate the pressure it sees and get some pretty good repeatability on your shots.

My brother made a CO2 rifle with a air tank, thats what he used.

WHy did I not see this at Rock Hall? Oh right, too busy playing music!

That's an accurate lil bugger, but I believe someone on the GBO cannon forum makes one smaller that uses BBs for ammo.

A caution to all: All cannon, regardless of size, can quickly become a pipe bomb instead of a cannon , unless designed and made properly.

OK we have 5 new tunes so far for our 6th venture into recording, the working title for the CD is "Ship Happens", also the name of one of the tunes. What think you of the name? Too risque, for us? Bear in mind our other CD titles:

Meet The Brigands

Bloody Seamen

Pirate Scum

X

Inner Buccaneer

As usual, we perform the new stuff for a season, and then record it, so release will not be til Yule or thereabouts.

Any news Silkie? The writing has commenced!

This is great info folks. I need the name of the guns on the Nykle, if anyone knows them.

If a given crew has not named thier gun, sorry, we can;t have any 'un named' guns in the tune. They may get lumped in one catagory ( such as all them other guns).

We are wrting a new song, titled "The Guns of Hampton" and we need help from the crews that fired at the Blackbeard Festival. We neen the names of your long guns and the names of the crews who fired them. We have some but not all of this.

Thanks in advance for everyone's help

Capt T.

Great seeing some folks from here at Blackbeard. I appologize if we didnt see everyone, holy cow, were we busy.

Also have to appologize to the Camp Mom for not making the Sat Nite sing, which I really did want to go and record. We were waylaid by Crudbeard and..... rum.

Hope all got home safe and that you had a good time!

AHoy Dutch, Capt Sterling, we'll be seeing ye at Blackbeard in 2 weeks! Scuttlebutt is that the Festival is much expanded for this year.

Let's see - two motorcycles, Roadstar and 535 virage (Butch Cannon's), washer, dryer, table saw, camping equipment, workbench, sound equipment collection from playing in bands for 35 years, Spray painting equipment, riding leather collection, lawnmower, weed whackers, overhead storage with HO train board, trains, buildings, boxes with 1000's of HO scale trees, old books, boxes of the ex's old shitte, boxes with half filled oddball liquors, but no cars and no boat. Old dinghy in the backyard.

Seek ye the crew of the Black Rose II - though they be more rennfaire pirates then anything, a good crew and active.

www.blackrose2.com

Ahoy Guvnah, good ter see ye here! We be going to Jacksonville/St AUgustine in Nov, fer the St Augustine Pirate Gathering, so I hopes ter see ye there!

Foxe, I will take a look see, can't remember just where I read that. This being Twill, you are justified in asking the question.

wasn't there a line about "have you ever seen the captains daughter?

That would be a Thighbiter lyric, I do believe? Captain?

Ah, Guvnah, good to hear from ye again. Alas, while we use the lyric, tis not of our own creation. I believe this is a 'rennfaire' added lyric, not part of the traditional lyrics for the tune. But who knows. "Drunken Sailor" has been around a long time, being at the height of it's popularity around 1710 or so. In the interim period, there is room for almost anything to have been sung to it.

Could the slope be related to the desire for any water that got on board and did not exit via the scuppers eventually drain into the well ( bilge)which was located at the center of gravity fore and aft? also, leaking water left to its own devices on a flush deck ship could trickle down into the hold, where valuable cargo maybe affected. Cargo held in the high ends of the curve wouldnt be as likely to get wet ?

It's probably a combination of factors that is the reason for them. But those high focsles and poops must have increased the ships leeway big time.

Well Mate, I assume you mean for next year? As any organizer will tell you, a good festival takes about a year to organize, fund, find site, entertainment, camping(?), vendors, deal with local ordanances and laws, get insurance, security, restroom facilites, etc, etc, etc.

For music, you may want to consider The Brigands, thebrigands.com. Performing at pirate festivals, faires, boat burnings and up and down the East coast from Maine to Florida, written up in the all pirate issue of Renaissance magazine, featured on Bilgemunky Radio and Renn Radio, almost weekly, and featured in Pyrate's Way Magazine. Performed for A&E entertainment ( The History Channel ). Check out the website, music and videos.

Good Luck, mate.

English is one of the hardest languages to learn and one that borrows from almost every European language. There are Dutch, German , French and all of the Latin based ones. Even some Scandanavian and celtic ones too! All rolled together and cooked for 500 years on a relatively isolated island.

Studying the entomolgy of English is like studying European history. Every culture that invaded England left its language mark.