Capt. Sterling

hmm the fellow with the cat, somewhat hard to tell from the angle, but the main character's hat certainly does not look like a cocked hat worn backward. The fellow on the oars, now his hat obviously looks like a backward cocked hat.

Umm main character’s hat does look like tricorn why not it has 3 sides and all ( it is actually

really similar than in one admiral in one picture.....)

Hmmm in all honesty, t'is hard to tell if there are three corners on the main character's hat, although, granted maybe he's wearing it sidewise....

hmm the fellow with the cat, somewhat hard to tell from the angle, but the main character's hat certainly does not look like a cocked hat worn backward. The fellow on the oars, now his hat obviously looks like a backward cocked hat.

At this point, aye, even tentatively. Come the end of May, I will be able to better know how to commit the crewe. We have a weekend together and will be able to discuss matters face to face.

Best of luck with it.

Does this mean you're not coming?

My most humble apologies for having kept ye waiting...I missed this completely. As of this date, I cannot possibly answer either way.

ah, in that case, blows my theory right out of the water....

Hmmm what about looking up styles of hats that are specifically Russian.... maybe that may have influenced the outcome of that particular hat? I know Peter the Great was trying to emulate western styles, but perhaps he had Russian craftsmen producing that particular piece...might be a place to look....

Er.... ain't them blue tinted glasses s'posed ta be a treatment fer Syphalis?

I have never seen proof for any such thing for GAoP thus far. (If I do, I will be sure to post it.) I did find something about a commanders and knights wearing green tints for sun glasses in Malta (and no where else yet); the original quote for that can be found here. Of course, I am reading medical texts and this may well be an individual response. Still, you would think with all the various texts on syphilis/lues venerea that someone would have mentioned this if it were common.

Hmmm the idea of blue tinted lenses as a treatment for STDs seems to have been something that comes up during the Victorian era... IF I had more time I could get ye some info from a grand debate on another board that took place several years back...but... any how, fwiw didn't have anything from our time frame posted there....

FWIW the Ft. Taylor ID pod was based on the wooden tokens that were used at coffee houses...

Since when do pirates knock?

Did anyone else just pee in their pants at the 1666 depiction of an 'anatomie' with an hourglass and a dart? No? Just me?

Now Foxe t'is but a shaft embedded in a bush.... of roses...ahem... or some sort of flowers....

Happy. Birthday and many, many more.

Happy birthday

Oi Grymm, any idea when the pockets in the back skirts started making an appearance?

More Hogarth, an etching from Industry and Idleness

The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn

So why is the guy in the lower right hand corner selling fruit? Is it for eating or throwing? (Just curious.)

Actually could be both, but odds are for eating, unless oranges at the time were a relatively inexpensive item. If ye really wanted to throw something, ye could most likely find something dirt cheap on the ground. Hangings were big affairs, quite the "holiday" atmosphere, so one could imagine folks taking the opportunity to sell to the crowds.

Next big event will be held in Foxe's kitchen!

Thank ye Foxe!!!!!!

Edward Cooke not only wrote one version of the voyage BUT two because in the first volume, seems as if he didn't think reporting on Selkirk would be as interesting as it was...seems Rogers version showed that not to be the case...

This is from 1770s but it is interesting and still quite close to Gaop and it represent buccaneers

http://jcb.lunaimagi...2~2&mi=5&trs=13

This has same date but I wonder that captain cook means I think it should be rogers since Serkirk did not meet cook

http://jcb.lunaimagi...~2&mi=75&trs=83

Those two images are from an interesting book called (believe it or not) An historical account of all the voyages round the world: performed by English navigators; including those lately undertaken by order of His present Majesty. The whole faithfully extracted from the journals of the voyagers. Drake, undertaken in 1577-80; Cavendish, 1586-88; Cowley, 1683-86; Dampier, 1689-96; Cooke, 1708-11; Rogers, 1708-11; Clipperton and Shelvocke, 1719-22; Anson, undertaken in 1740-44; Byron, 1764-66; Wallis, 1766-68; Carteret, 1766-69; and Cook, 1768-71. Together with that of Sydney Parkinson ... and the voyage of Mons. Bougainville ... To which is added, an appendix. Containing the Journal of a voyage to the North pole, by the Hon. Commodore Phipps, and Captain Lutwidge.

The original four volumes contain some reprints of the actual accounts, in addition to narrative commentary by the book's publisher and quite a few pictures. However, as SB1700 noted, there are clearly factual errors in the book like Cook apparently time-traveling to meet Alexander Selkirk. So caveat emptor when reading it. You can find pdfs all of these volumes (separately) on-line by searching for "An historical account of all the voyages round the world."

I highly doubt that the author was trying to infer that Captain James Cook of the Endeavour time traveled to meet Alexander Selkirk, odds are t'is a very simple spelling/typo mistake... as ye both are forgetting about Edward Cooke who was on the Dutchess and wrote his own account of the Rogers' expedition to the south seas.

Sounds like Beaufort. Easily done with enough people who are willing to do the work. Best of luck with it.

Silkie took care of the chamber pot, especially since cousin robbie wasn't quite himself....

the blue chest is the master gunners sea chest

OH and Jack's wonderful contribution to fill the amazing little item Dorian and Josephine made, but ye will have to wait and see that at the next event....

I highly recommend every crew invest in one....**wicked grin**

Aye Dorian came up with the ingenious way of constructing the cargo, which Josephine bundled all together. Not to mention they donated their tent for the warehouse. Brig got to play in the tick infested leaves to fill up all the hand stitched sacks before sitting down to make her lace, Jack did the artwork on the bale marks along with Sean Merriweather. Josephine and Dorian did a remarkable job on the ingots, they were awesome indeed. Jack also figured out the paper folding for the cabin plunder, such as the gold dust, pearls, jewelry that was captured, etc., as well as handling hand copying the inventory lists... and producing every issue of the Spectator and the London Gazzette that applied, and of course everyone donated stockings for the 7 bales worth of stockings...and even Fionn donated the "good for nothing shirt" as well as other garments that were captured. And of course many of the crewe spent months and I mean months researching all this to make sure things were accurate...

And of course this was all on top of/added to everything else they had to have ready for the event... I mean Edward spent days researching a spit for the cooking demo, Cross had his sail makers items set up, Adam had the forge, Constable put together the field carriage for the new gun....just for an example.

Ha! We went from "ye guys never have enough stuff" to... "ye guys have too much stuff!" Although too much didn't lose us points like too little did.

Again thank ye folks fer yer kind regards. Much obliged.

Posted some of what we have gotten. Mark mind if I swipe a few of your photos and give ye credit?