Matusalem

Good grief! ( in the words of Minnesotan Charles Shultz' cartoon character Charlie Brown). I would only imagin Garrison Keillor must be aside himself.

East Coast/New England/Nova Scotia maps ...if I could only get a repro, I'm doing up a room in nautical artifacts for the ol' home.

Vapor (s)

Ginormous

I heard, from a number of sources, that it was cocaine addiction. I'm not doubting your word, It's just what I heard

bURT rEYNOLDS

Via my trusty Tardis, I'd have to return to Gallifrey from time to time.

Get yer hands on one o' these: 300 year old bottle with seal These are bottles John Lennon sang about in"Glass Onion" Glass Onion Check out #55: Glass onion rum bottle

Just in case you would ever want to know what ships were named, FYI, I found this handy site: Pirate Ship names

White: Gelcoat (enamel surface) Yellow: Fiberglass roving (the cloth material impregnated with resin) If you see real chicken wire, then it's a previous patch job. All i can say is examine the situation from a hole in the deck. You are best working from the inside, not the outside of the hull because you will never get the structural rigididy. Basically you need to get new fiberglass roving to overlap a hole about 6" to 12" depending on the size of the hole. Have 5" electric grinder handy, you will need it. make sure you lay your roving down with an air roller (basically looks like a paint roller but much smaller). You will need that when laying the fiberglass with resin. The air roller will remove air bubbles and give a structural bond to the hull. Air gaps will structurally weaken your patch job.

A New England tradition, btw.I tried to explain this to some college friends of mine. When you are in NJ, you ask for vinegar for your fries and the waitstaff looks at you puzzledly. You're in Rhode Island, and the waitstaff will ask if you want vinegar for your fries but not the ketchup. They didn't believe me until we were at a diner in providence. Now...at this moment: bowl of popcorn and a glass of Maudite beer.

^Definitely old movies. Some new ones if they're good or interesting. Bogart, Brando, 50's sci-fi, etc. <I knew my weirdness once I was able to recite every line in Lost Boys . The script is asbsolutely horribly cheesy. Jami Gertz!!! FYI, Now Corey Feldman/Corey Haim have a tv show now. V Were you ever a fan of Depp movies before POTC?

Hmm. I didn't know why I woulda ever missed this one, today is 7/28/07. I worked as a boatbuilder for Shannon yachts and The Anchorage (Dyer boats) between 1987 and 1990. I would say: first determine whether the deck and hull are connected through fiberglass & resin -or- by a caulking compound. If they are bonded together by resin, then I highly would suggest not separating the two halves unless you have a proper tool such as a 4-inch diameter diamond tipped blade, whcih I used to use at Shannon, and I suppose I could cut it but not very precisely. The blade would run horizontally down the flange. Pain in the ***. If they are connected by a marine caulking, like SikaFlex, try a chisel & hammer and dousing the gap with acetone, then keep trying to separate them with the chisel & hammer, ad keep pouring in the acetone. Keep in mid that asolvent only works if the material you are trying to dissolve is made of a likewise chemical base (quoted from my step-grandfather who wis a retired chemistry professor at the US Naval Academy) . The only other altenative I suggest is to cut a 5"x5" hole in the deck witha saber saw, save the piece, and do your work. You are doing patchwork, right? After you've done your great masterpiece of patchwork, whatever be the case, attach some small 3/4" inch strips 2" to the edge of the deck hole as amounting flange and epoxy the cut-out piece to those flange strips. Then fill the gaps with resin paste (resin with glas beads or glass fibers), which has the consisitency of toothpaste. Sand till flush with deck. Spray gelcoat. let dry then sand. Use an oscillating 4X4 sander start with 150-200-400 grit till you reach 1500 or 2000 if you like, then buff with compound and you will never know you cut a hole in the deck. Hope this helps. Email me if you like.

Thai

Bowie

^Nay! We need the damn, planet, captain! (....er, that didn't make any sense, did it?) < I now realize the following people are STILL alive in spite of everything: Etta James, Kirk Douglas, Paul McCartney, Fidel Castro, Jack LaLanne, Keith Richards, Jerry Lee Lewis, Harold Camping (the Bible expert), Osama bin Laden (maybe/maybe not), Diane Rheims (NPR), Michael Jackson, Senator Robert Byrd, George Burns (in animated corpse form), Meinhardt Rabbe (original Oz munchkin) V WHat was the last amazing thing you saw?

That...is just awsome. Proof, once again, that pirates were real, not some characters made up in a paperback novel you buy at CVS. Too bad it wasn't done up more so. Having not been there (roadtrips through the carolinas on I-95 notwithstanding), I'd get the sense that this gets lost , in the civil war history of Ft. Sumter , or at least confused with. Salem, Mass has that particular issue also. Most people think of the 1692 witch trials when it was more so a prime maritime & shipping port. I have not the heart to tell the pagan brethren for fear of breaking their hearts. Those folks look like they are having too good a time.

Same with Vodka , Gin, and whiskey...the marketing became directed towards yuppies, and put in slick bottling. I forgot to post the original site. Ministry of Rum Incidentally I recall a school field trip, when I was 11, to the Maritime Museum in Mystic, Connecticut, and we students couldn't believe that sailors were fed a daily ration of rum from a huge tankard aboard the ship. We heard that and then we had more respect for sailors

Ed hamilton and his Ministry of Rum.Time Magazine article In the past, I have posted on his rum forum, and Mr.Hamilton responds likewise and very informatively.

Cinnaminson, New Jersey (we have weird names in this state) Cheesequake, New Jersey

Ya know, if you were having hot chocolate rum, you could easily turn your finger into a pin cusion by nights end....not that you'd want to, er...hot chocolate rum....pin cushion. Sorry, it's past my bedtime and I'm not making any sense.

Jasmine

I know that Boca Grande "aka Gasparilla island" is claimed to be named after Jose Gaspar, the pirtate celebrated in 'Pirate Days' up in Tampa, however there is some dispute if this actually true, here's a link from the Boca Grande internet newspaper: Jose Gaspar My parents have a house where the Myakka river meets Charlotte Harbor, and directly across it is a cove called "Pirate Cove" and I am very interested how it became named as such.

Didja say 'crews'( a deep Davey Jones accent)....or 'cruise'? Day cruises? Those don't sound like day cruises. As for pyrate cruises stateside yes, I can give you a good list (Fl, Va, RI, etc). As fo' de eye-lands....don't know much other than I heard something of a pirate excursion in Charlotte Amalie, USVI, I'll check into that and let you know what I find. People, help me out here. Other than the multi-day Windjammer pirate-thingy cruises out of St Maarten/St Martin, i don't know much. Even my latest issue of lattitudes & Attitudes magazine didn't say much. Hurricane season is fast approaching, don't say I didn't warn ya.

.....so much for the Coke & Mentos remedy today. Saturday, I sailed into St. Michael's, Md. and ate crabs: Nothing beats that Old Bay seasoning, my taste buds were burning.