Capt. Bo of the WTF co.

What? No-one carries a flint and steel? How did pyrates strike a fire for the BBQ? This is one of my personal favorites and the most watched demonstration at every event I do. Amazing how quck a crowd will gather when you break this out and make a fire without a match or a lighter! Of course, you can use the lock of yer firearm to spark the tinder, but I'd say better to have one and know how to use it. Also, a small bottle of oil for yer fireams as well. a quick wipe during the day will prevent the rust from getting the best of you at the events. Capt. Bo

Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda... EASYRIDER... :) This is AMERICA folks, it CAN happen, HAS happened, and WILL again as long as there are people willing to work for it and not give up at the first sign of difficulty. Go for it Gabriel. I'm in Missouri and when you need help, just ask. Capt. Bo

Take a crock pot, put in a block of Velveeta cheese cut in cubes, add a can of Rotel tomatoes with green chilies, brown a pound of sausage crumbled, add to the crock pot, add two cans of mushroom bits and pieces if you like. Let it heat on low, and get your favorite tortilla chips. This is THE staple food/appetizer at most all the White Trash Fur co. gatherings when not at primitive camp. It's a big hit wherever we go. Then theres always the old stand-by raw veggies and dip if you're pressed for time. Capt. Bo

The "Vengence Wraith"...(I was gonna name her the "Enigma", but I didn't think anyone would understand) Capt. Bo

Disgusting ain't it. Our govt. is already providing funds to rebuild that damned mosque that the sunni's blew up in Iraq, (and it will probably be completed before New Orleans is even begun!), but there's none for such valuable treasure as this. When and what needs to happen before enough of us take the Declaration of Independence to heart and throw this pig-pucky govt. off and do our duty? I'm ready but I won't go alone... sorry, I'm a fighter, not a martyr. Capt. Bo

This is GREAT guys! This topic has been hotly debated many times in the F&I and RevWar camps over the years, and this info is the best I've ever heard/read anywhere! Thanx! I don't know if you've ever read any of Kenneth Roberts fictional works Daniel, but the birch sticks are mentioned in them. He wrote the Arundel Chronicles, a trilogy on the New England coastal peoples involvement in the RevWar, and also some other great stories as well. Oliver Wiswell is written as from a loyalists point of view during the RevWar. The thing about Roberts work is that he researched everything about the history before writing, and he is familiar with sailing and such, so the stories are more than entertaining, they are full of historical fact as well, alot like Allan Eckert. Damn good reading for a cold or stormy evening for sure. Capt. Bo

GoF, Hope I didn't come across too sharp, I was fighting an 18 hour old migrane yesterday, and that tends to make me a bit testy. But for the topic, it would be a good addition to any mariners collection to have a copy of the Pirates from Time-Life just for the art. Like I said, the writings, save for a few quotes from Dampier, Defoe, and Esquemelling, is garbage, but the woodcuts, watercolors, and ships drawings are worth having for reference. There are several of Pyles in the way, but overall a good resource of visual aid. The book on The Pacific Navigators, also from that series, is where I found that painting of Petees bucket boot wearing "seamen"(?), and the info regarding the artist who painted it. These are available at Amazon books, some of the used ones are very reasonably priced. Have a good one! Capt. Bo

PIRATES... ...DUH! (sorry, couldn't resist )

In regards to the wearing of wool in the Carribean, it was and is shown in the watercolor paintings of the boucaniers I've mentioned before in the Time Life book on Pirates. While the writings in this book can pretty well be thrown to the garbage, the period illustrations cannot be denied. further, I have been at sea in the mid Atlantic and beleive me when I say there are plenty of times when a coat comes in very handy, even essential. When a body is conditioned to temperatures in the 80-90+ degree range, and the wind blows in a cold front that drops the temp. into the 60s during daylight and into the lower 40s at night, you WILL wear a coat or wish you had one. As far as the process of tanning being long and laborious, well of course it was, but what else was there to do with your time? Perhaps they joined a bowling league or spent the day on the golf course? Yes, the reason they were hunting and curing meat and hides was to trade with the passing ships, but do you suppose that every buccaneer was successful? That would be like saying everyone that went to the California gold fields in 1849 struck it rich. Neccessity is the mother of all invention, as I'm sure we all know. The reason these men took up the life of the buccaneer in the first place was to leave behind the economic recession and social repression of their homelands. Take into consideration the literacy rate of the buccaneers. How many actually wrote anything down? What are there, maybe a half dozen authentic writings of the times in question? That would be roughly one in one thousand.( just a guess ) Even these accounts vary a great deal, and none of them covers everything . The fact is that human nature is such that in order to evolve, we must learn to improvise and invent in order to advance, and someone at some point must take the first step forward,or we wouldn't be communicating via internet today. I am a fierce individualist, and a carbon copy of no-one, and I'm confident that many of these men were the same, or they would have stayed home. I will try to access the paintings I have mentioned in order to show evidence that the knee length justacorps were indeed worn by the buccaneers in the Carribean, and the one of the hides being stretched out for curing and the boucan in operation. Just because a few people didn't write something down doesnt necessarily negate the possibility any more than it justifies it. Capt. Bo

I dunno... I think anyone who claims to have been "traumatized" by Saturday morning TV shows was screwed up from the git-go, or started droppin LSD in the 2nd or 3rd grade! :) Could be that I was disturbed though... I loved them old shows. 'Course nuthin' scared me but them damn flyin' monkeys on the Wizard of OZ! Those was some SCARY muthas! Capt. Bo

As they were a nomadic hunter, they built temporary lean-to type shelters, or a primitive style of hut similar to the native type of the region. This is not to say that tents were never used, but rarely. The Time-Life series of books on seafaring is the only source I know of at present that has a period painting showing a boucan in operation. It is basically a smokehouse like we used on the farm when I was a kid, but built of native trees and materials common to the Carrib. Ours was built out of cinder-block and a wood frame roof with a tin top, but it woked the same as the painting in the book on Pirates in the Time-Life series. A fire is started under the drying racks, and allowed to burn until a good bed of coals is obtained. you then place the meat on the racks and add green wood chips to the coals to produce a smoke cure. You have to add fuel at various times, but do not allow the fire to become too hot, just enough to maintain a bed of coals to burn the green chips and smoke the meat. Usually 4 to 6 hours will do in a regular smoker, but it really depends alot on the thickness of the cuts of meat and how good you are at it. I'm sure their is better info out there but this should help you on your way to discovery. Bon Fortune! Capt. Bo

Just a thought, but if you think on the boucanier angle, you hunted wild cattle and hogs in between acts of pyracy, and it was more than likeley necessary to manufacture replacement togs from the available material. coupled with the probability that trading ventures with ships for cloth were few and far between, I'd say you have good grounds to base the use of leather for your justacorps. Just me 'umble opinion. Capt. Bo

Monterey Jack made one I believe, and he works at a leather dealer/store, you might inquire of him to do a custom job. Capt. Bo

Yeah... I couldn't resist... I went and googled H.R. Puffinstuff and it's all there, C.N. Riley played "Hoodoo" the magician AND his evil twin "Bruce", and yes Witchiepoo also played the genie, and Eddie Munster was the kid in Lidsville. Also, yes they were both creations of Sid and Marty Kroft. Lots of cool stuff out there, "Mama" Cass Elliot was Witch Hazel on Puffinstuff. The really bad part of this thread is that I'll be spending a small fortune to order the DVD's of these old shows to show my stepkids, ( 5 & 7 yrs. old), well, thats the excuse I'm going to use and I'm stickin to it! :) Oh yeah, Puffinstuff was mayor of Living Island. I remember they also made a feature length film out of it, I went to the theater in my home town to see it, and I think I still have the 45rpm soundtrack that I ordered from a cereal box. I also had a plastic "Freddy" that I saved up boxtops for. Now that we got this nostalgia thread going, I can officially enter my 44th childhood! Capt. Bo

LIDSVILLE... that was the name of the program, not HATSVILLE! Thanx Silkie! But that wasn't where Mayor H.R. Puffinstuff lived. Memory doesn't serve me well after living the biker life all these years, but I'm certain they were seperate of each other. I can remember part of the theme from Lidsville, and also most of the Puffinstuff theme. Charles Nelson Riley I remember best from the Bic Bananna Ink Crayon commercials he did that usually aired between the shows. How about Speed Racer, Johnny Socko, and Ultra Man? Any of you other 40 somethings remember those Japanese shows? Capt. Bo

Delayed action m'self Mate... Welcome ta the Pub! Capt. Bo

Welcome in ta the Pub Mate! Thankee fer the rum! Capt. Bo

HATVILLE! Yes I do remember that one too! Weren't H.R. Puffinstuff and The Bugaloos both filmed in England? I so enjoyed those Saturday mornings watching with my sister. We are descendants of the Boone family from Devon and near Exeter, that is famous for Daniel Boone. We are from the lineage of Daniel's uncle Joseph Boone. My sister has gone "home" to visit twice, and been once to Ireland, But I won't fly since an accident while in the Navy. It isn't the flying that bothers me... it's crashin' and burnin' that gives me the willies! Capt. Bo

I've heard alot of things about the "John Deere's" of the MC world, but that is the first time I've heard that one Petee! I'll have to commit that one to memory for sure! Next time I'm out on my Shadow, I'll have to recite that to my Harley pushin friends! Thanx! Capt. Bo

I've had two Harleys, and they were BOTH a peice of shit! I wouldn't have one today if Willie G. delivered it to my door in person for what his corporation did to me when I was in the Navy. Sold me a peice of shit, wouldn't stand behind the product, wouldn't repair anything even while it was under warranty, and after it caught fire and burned due the incompetence of the dealers mechanics, I delivered it through the front window of the store. The Navy lawyer got me out of trouble and out from under the payments. Harley Davidson Motor Co. can eat shit and die! OK, so now the rant is complete, I've decided to go ahead and build around the barrel from scratch. Thanx for the input folks. I'll post pictures when I complete the project. Capt. Bo

Barber -Surgeon... The quotation marks when used behind a number denotes inches here in the colonies mate.( 8"= eight inches ) Just something else to confuse our European friends! :angry: Capt. Bo

We have a winner! Glad to know I ain't the only one who remebers that one. Got my own copy, saw it at the theater when it was new, the year after The Wild Angels. Remember that one? OK, so I'm an old biker, now ya know. Good job Mad Jack Capt.Bo

What? No guesses? Here ya go: "I'm hip about time... but I just gotta go." "Everything we ever dreamed is in that teardrop gas tank and you got some stranger pourin gas all over it!" "Have you got a helmet George?" That should be enough. Capt.Bo

That would be one of my old favorites... Jeremiah Johnson, would it not? Here ya go- "I'm hip about time... but I just gotta go." Capt. Bo

Absolutely true Mr. Hawkyns. It was towards the end of the Seven Years War that the passage I remembered was referring to. I mistakenly placed it earlier in my feeble memory. It was a reference in the Philedelphia news of 1760 from one of my Eckert books. Sorry for the momentary lapse of memory. Capt. Bo