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Do you mean pirate era? One can try the *Triangle trade Route* for starters, though it involves the slave trade. Are you referring specifically to merchant vessels? I don't know much else just yet but I'm going to find out. The Triangle trade: This was a cycle: Ships left England or the east coast of America loaded with rum & sugar, sailed to the Guinea coast of Africa & traded the cargo for slaves, sailed to the Caribbean and dropped off the slaves and loaded the ships with sugar cane, and sailed to the east coast America to make rum with the sugar cane, then the rum would be used for the next slave voyage, thus continuing the cycle. Perfect model of a commodity industry. As for pirates, they would just go wherever merchant vessels were present. many of the famous pirates had a number of freed slaves as part of their crew. Rum is the currency of the Triangle trade. Triangle trade Triangle Trade Triangle Trade

no problem, mate Your place looks like a lot of fun. Well done!

Another Wanton house, the 1697-built Wanton-Lymon-Hazard house. Those Wantons, they make a fortune being sea merchants. You want GAOP era houses in a pirate seaport? This is it.

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You might want to contact Milton Bradley, As for the title, I ArgMatey .

Not a problem. many of the pages of my old sketchbooks, I used Krylon spray mount and adhere the the drawing right on to the page. you can always peel them off if need be. The scrapbook or sketchbook page itself is not my favorite medium particularly because of the said quote above. FYI don't ever use 3M Super 77, that stuff's permanent! I'm actually about to hit the streets of Manhattan real shortly. I saw a street vendor selling hand-hewn leather-bound sketchbooks somewhere in the vicinity of Broadway & Prince Sts. His loot is ideal for this project.

I spoke to Blair yesterday, and according to him, my order was in the process of being shipped from the factory to their place in N.S. If you have an issue just call 902-479-0967 and ask for Blair. Me being in the shoe import business, I started asking questions like "do you have the factory invoice?", etc. , and of course his response was like "oh yeah, they'll be here anytime, ....etc". However, me being of a fool, I didn't ask whether they were being shipped by container ship or air cargo. So...if anyone calls Loyalist Arms, please ask them their method of shipping. I am hoping that the Emma Mærsk, or whatever ship it be, was not intercepted by pirates somewhere off the coast of Somalia. The shoes are made in India.

All these pirate history books use the terms G_d D__m You! Y filth D_g as if they were foul language. How does one go about saying "dog"? it can't be the same as today's "yo, what up dawg"?

Soo locks? ...Link

casketchrist, Howard Pyle...good artist, though I question his total accuracy of the period since he was around in the late 1800's. Someone posted somehting a hile ago to the effect that buckes were around 1¼", based on the shoe found on the Whydah wreck (which I ordered). ...and reenactor purists are going to hate me because I requested smooth side out. I'm on the telephone with LAR this second , but I'm getting a voice mail, so I will call back.

This sounds like something Royaliste would be familiar with. I suppose you could PM him. I believe he has done exactly that with his ship. Anyone who can manage to get a vessel from Michigan/Ohio & possibly Chicago or Milwaukee to the Carolinas knows his stuff. I never even knew of the Intracoastal Waterway from Lake Erie across NY state to Hudson River until he mentioned it a couple of times.

Merchant vessel = Food I just got a copy of Pirates of the new England Coast, which is a great book of a slightly re-edited version of the 1922 George Francis Dow book. It has most of the famous names you know. Without getting into passages & excerpts from the book (mainly because the book is not with me at this second) , I can explain in a nutshell, that Pirates primarily fed off the ships they plundered for the main reason they did not want to be spotted on land. Making port any where could prove fatal once the locals witnesses alert the authorities of who's in town. They'd find merchant ships loaded with flour, livestock, veggies, sugar, wine...and of course, rum, take it for their own consumption, then sink the merchant vessels so there is no trace. It's so much safer to hide out at sea and wait for a vessel to plunder than land somewhere to procure victuals & subsistence, and get spotted.

...and that's why we had "Pappy" Boyington. say, anyone remember the tv show Baa Baa Black Sheep?

That's just awwwesome! Fantastic pics. Any shots with the boat heelin' the water till the sea is over the toprail? I'm unfamiliar with the Aldebaran b/c I'm on the opposite coast, but I found this Link Ain't she a beaut!

I concluded the painting was done to specifically entertain the people who happen to be depicted, and not just some "random" painting of Sea Captains in Suriname. I don't know who the guy vomiting while his arse is alight, but the man in the chair with the vomit in his pockets is Joseph Wanton. It is iportant to point out that these guys in the painting are rich merchantmen and have gained decent fortune from sea ventures enough to gain political power, thus the governorships of Joseph Wanton, and his brother Gideon (see the green house below). Newport has always been one of the top pirate ports in North America primarily because the populace & local officials were so friendly to protect them. Money & fortune, as usual, has something to do with it. Kidd, bellamy & tew were quite comfortable here. My only interest in putting up these pictures is not to promote myself (as I am unimportant), but to make the whole pyracy thing as tangible and real as possible.

O such a day! I wanted to find out more about New Providence in the Bahamas because of it's significance during the Golden Age of Piracy, and as I scrolled down the wikipedia site, it mentioned Esek Hopkins, which then led me to the painting and mentioned that the entire table is Rhode Isanders That being said, Esek Hopkins was a privateer captain (please note the uniform) during the F&I war, which explains why they were in Suriname in 1755, and brother Stephen Hopkins, owner of this house in R.I. (which, by accident I walked by but fortunately I took these photos). The house has actually moved about 150 ft up the hill from it;'s original location, same street but on the other end of the block facing Benefit St..This is one of those actual "Washington slept here" locations :

Anybody recieve anything yet form Loyalist Arms? Shoes? I know these things take time with custom orders, sourcing, etc. I ordered a pair in the first week of April. I am about to make a phone call

I saw that site too! A lot of the pirate books cretit the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich in the bibliography section in back. I also believe David Cordingly works there as well. Oh, well....next time i'm in the UK, that's where I'm going!

That is a valid question....one that I would care to join in asking because I have had the urge to purchase This jacket (F&I era). Honestly, in spite of all the illustrations & and engravings I have seen of late 17th and early 18th century seamen, I question the practicality of a knee-legnth waistcoat while on board a ship, particularly in tropical climes. Not that sailors didn't wear them, but I always felt that a gold-trimmed silk brocade waistcoat with the fancy embroideries a la King Louis IV era seemed like wearing a business suit while working on a lobster boat. The Captain...a different story.

Self-kedging....without the anchor? OK, everybody, HEAVE!......HEAVE!........(boat slips off after heave 5X)

Hey, how 'bout a quote from the pyrate of all pirates, as William Teach, a.k.a. BLACKBEARD wrote in his personal journal, as found by Cap't Maynard and his crew after they killed Blackbeard and rifled through his ship: Such a Day, Rum all out: ___Our Company somewhat sober:___A damn'd Confusion amongst us!___Rogues a plotting;___great Talk of separation.___So I look'd sharp for a Prize;___such a Day took one, with a great deal of liquor on board, so kept the Company hot, damn'd hot, then all Things went well again.

I would like to welcome all our brethren on American shores a 'Happy Fourth of July". and non-Americans included (Come on you UK people!don't be such miserable sports even though we silenced your guns 232 yeas ago). I was fortunate to have been invited to my ex- next door neighbor's classic New England clambake, these clams clams ("steamers") came right from the very shore you see here. These one have the necks on them. The chowder was great too!

EvilTiny, it's far more easier to make the holes the same dimension as the strips. What I did is nothing extroardinary in the marine world, it's pretty standard, except some manufacturers use gang saws to create the slots. Teak grating

Steak! In the book, "A General History of Pyrates" by Daniel Defoe (the one edited by Manuel Schonhorn), in the chapter 'Of Captain Burgess', the top of pg 509 reads "I shall, only take Notice, that Captain Miller, being decoy'd ashore, under Pretence of being shew'd some Trees, fit for masting , Halsey invited him to a Surloin of Beef, and a Bowl of Arrack Punch; he accepted the invitation, with about 20 of the Pyrates. One Emmy, who had been a Waterman on the Thames, did not come to the table, but sat by, muffled in a great Coat, pretending he was attack'd by the Ague, tho' he had to put it on to conceal his Pistols only". Surloin...if one reads the chart one sees in the grocery store with the dotted lines on the steer, you know where it comes from. Except in those days, I'm sure the meat was fresh slaughter.