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  1. Eyes ain't no match fer ya foxe when it comes to history but the two dablooms eyes got is from "under the black flag" by David COrdingly. He says Woodes Rodgers commanded a privateering mission around 1708-1711. And then went to the West Indies in 1718 to rid New Providence of pirates. Woodes published A book in 1712 "A Cruising voyage around the World"

    July 26,1718 Woodes was back in New Provence Having returned from England. He re-established order once again as Govenor up to 1720's. Was replaced deu to poor health and later reinstated and returned becuase his replacement was incompetent.this as in 1729. he died in 1732..

    :lol:

    does everyone already know that Rogers was governor of Newfoundland in 1715? 

    Woodes had gone to South Carolina fer his health before he died but It's

    a note in point that he was not just a govenor... He was a "govenor in Chief" so that means he was in charge of alot of territorty..

  2. I was workin on a cad drawing and this is what eye got So far.. Eye hope to cut a real sign outta aluminum wit raised letters. It won't be as colorfull, It will be something I might consider sending to the chromer though..

    PC030136.jpg

  3. I was a recent convert do to an introduction

    through my wife to ren faire 3mos. ago.

    I guess it's taken a life of it's own.

    Mid-life crisis could well as be

    a reason fer this insanity of wantin to act as

    a pyrate fer a day or two outa the year and build

    the cove in progress ect.

    I see it as more of a hobbie than an interest because now

    I want to learn navigation techniques. Iv'e been bit an bit hard.

    So much so I machined this today.... One is the computer graphic using surfcam and the other is the real deal

    comparison_anchorfincopy.jpg

    Now the Year is 2012 and looking back eye can say that what got me here was shear rebellion..However what has kept me? The excitement of the life and adventure of it all...Eye have met so many great people to boot! Back then Eye had no idea that one day eye would end up in Pirates Magazine let alone create a full feature movie short! Now on YouTube ! http://youtu.be/xmSeX-gghpo

    And now an Honory member of the Leviathan. It is funny to look back and laugh at myself with what eye would call very humble beginnings.

    I have come far in the Hobby turned life style. I find a lot of joy sharing with others, how to's and the rest is future history yet to experienced.

  4. and did they have a concept of longitude, but just no accurate way to measure it at the time

    Ealy maps sugeest longitude was already a concept.

    link

    More specifically the time line I found says:

    1760's was when the lunar tables became available and some guy named John Harrison invented the chronometer. Twas only then was we able to find longitude wit any accuracy.

    Eyes : just read all this in the lasty chapter of me book " Under the Black Flag" by David Cordingly pgs. 82-83.////86-87 has a few more facts too

    but ya got to look at the book. I don't wanna plagerize David.

    Otherwise eyes thinks ya answered yer own question already. East-West

    direction (longitude) was fer the most part an educated guess; fer maps of the tyme were'nt all that accurate. :huh:

  5. Rabble rousin sounds like ah great answer to the thread querry.

    Aside work/city college routine, I'm in the piratical decor mode.

    We found a nice fishin net to hang on the fence and a parrot to put in a window. We found a decent wall lamp thats not period but won't detract

    from the goal to give ya that erie-mysterious feeling of a pirates hide-out, where there be something changin around all the time.

    I also just got an antique map that we're gonna blow-up and put on another wall. The reprographics place does'nt have antique paper but I have experimented and found tea and coffee to work the aging miracle. The original map is from 1792. A little late for golden age. But whose gonna know exept ya scurvy dogs readin this rap. the map bears the actual names like hispanolia, and New Spain, ect. :huh:

  6. anonymously = oderless/ seas whats up eahh .. still workin on me taste though cause Eyes a bit wit out tack .

    4 : to change the direction of (a sailing ship) when sailing close-hauled by turning the bow to the wind and shifting the sails so as to fall off on the other side at about the same angle as before
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