Capt. Sterling

Physical Health Good Given the difficult conditions they have faced, the remaining members of your Company are in fairly decent health upon their arrival in the New World. Your common sense approach to keeping your colonists healthy has paid off, and your colonists will be able to physically handle the challenges of life in the new colony. Morale OK Your Company is a bit fearful of what the future may hold. More than a few of your colonists doubt your decision-making abilities. You will need to strengthen your leadership and raise your Company's spirits if your colony is to succeed. Supplies OK Your supplies are not as robust as they could be, but your Company is in decent shape. During your voyage, you made some rash decisions, and wasted some valuable supplies in the process. You will need to be more prudent in the future, or it will spell certain disaster for your colony. Ship and Crew Good Perhaps you should have been an admiral in the British navy, rather than a governor in the New England colonies! Your wise advice and sound forethought have made for a relatively safe voyage for your Company. While the relationship with the ship's crew has been a bit strained at times, you have maintained strong leadership on board. The captain and sailors may not like you, but they respect you. Future Success Good Your careful rationing and thoughtful decisions will serve your colony well. You have arrived in the New World with a limited but sufficient storehouse of supplies. Your Company will be able to build homes, plant crops, and trade with Indians until the next ship of colonists arrives.

glad to have helped a bit

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Hell fer absynthe, I can even encourage myself enough to help you

A little bit of absinthe and you won't feel a thing... glad to hear you are still in one piece and on the mend...

Send me a copy!

Add me to the list of nosey people who really want to see pictures... sounds great!

Frankly, we should all always be learning. Isn't that one of the points of this whole enterprise? It is the people who think of themselves as the utter experts that I find the most troubling. Maybe that's part of my own personal philosophy of life/education - which dovetails with one of my favorite quotes from Picasso - "A painting is never finished. It just stops in interesting places". Education is never completed and mastery is never attained. We just stop and move on to other things when we've hit out own line. Yer preaching to the choir here...

Aye and here is the link http://www.goosebay-workshops.com/THE-SHIP-S-STORE scroll down

Grace is very good and has a lot of experience, but even she is learning... and after Pike River, new safety rule for all girl gun crews... boys clothes...long skirts can be a major safety issue...tripping, getting tools caught in the folds... etc...she completely agreed when this was pointed out to her...

Ack, honestly Mission that is hard to even take as funny let alone cool...especially knowing someone who lost an arm to one...

Hallelujah it works again!!! Blackjohn you have fiddled to perfection...

Ah I have my own personal fiddler..sniggering

Can't wait to see her next weekend and the better half said to come and take a look at the oaks left on the property for yer elbows...

Nay they had plenty of time to rest up in between...

In the long run, and here we are at the mercy of the insurance companies, who is willing to offer what? And like Maddogge stated... the insurance companies are calling all the shots. I know the group we had our insurance with back in the AWI days, no longer will cover reenactors, period.

Hmmm we had em in AWI...so they must be available, or at least they were, horses, pistols, muskets, artillery pieces and swords, and we were never asked to "prove" our riding experience...

Mission would you be willing to fire that cannon if it wasn't covered by insurance?

Happy Birthday and many, many more!

but the individual would be covered...

Mickey I think you have a point that when events cover everyone it is a nice fringe benefit...but what if the injured party not only sues the event but goes after you as indivdiual? then what? or at least I think that is what Hugh is getting at...

Captain Dishpan hands...

Ugh, my head hurts from all this spinning... yeah tell me about it... snigger...

Each coast, or midland, is going to have different priorities, depending on the number and type of events held in their part of the world. I don't think one set of rules is going to work for each region. I would also be afraid these satellite governing bodies would end up creating more regional differences within the pyracy community than there already are. Honestly, who's to say that there has to be one huge governing body even if all the regions decided to form their own larger unions? Just because one group belongs to the east coast union, doesn't mean they can't play with a midland's union... The group currently in thought, doesn't have any intentions of not playing with others because they aren't members of the group...they are just trying to make things easier for those that may wish to join...