CaptainJackRussell

I guess you need a nice tea and a massage. Take the next flight to Hamburg...

Awfully tired and lonely after a hard days work...

Fried mushrooms with a turkey steak and a salad...and a fine, german beer:)

If you ever see this Jolly...it's me Keep your powder dry, Jack

Hi at all, about the flamed blade: Flamed blades occur in most asian cultures, but also have been in use in Europe. The first appear in 15th century, but the most are two-handed-"warswords". For them there is (as well as for any Bidenhanders) no approval that they were really used in combat. Period drawings by Urs Graf, Hans Holbein and other drawers of that era show those swords ever as guards for officer, flags or "five and drum". If they had any use in battle the must have use it like small spears (in German called "Ahlspiess". Flamed blades indeed have a major advantage comparing to their straight-bladed cousins. A straight blade you can grap with the bare hand, if the grip is firm enough, even if it's razor-edged. A simple very firm grip enables you to control the opponents blade or allows you a disarming action. This is not possible with a flamed or serpented blade. There the edge always can bite. Those blades have been in use until the 18th century and certainly not only used on land. About the sword-canes: They appear in the 17th century as a assassins weapon, but they where introduced to anyone who would go out armed without letting anybody know. The fashion of the 18th century introduced the cane as an assessoire of the gentlemens garb, replacing the small sword. But even then many opportunities occured where you must have been fighting for your life. Some used swords hidden in a cane, some trained stickfighting. Therefrom, new fighting schools where introduced, almost led by the Italians, the Germans and the Potuguese. Many of that styles survived until today like "Jogo Do Pau" from Portugal (Jogo do Pau Keep your powder dry and keen your blade, Jack

I also quit with collecting the revolution series. I have a lot of fun with that game (unfortunately hard to get here in Germany) and I collect what I can use, but no barbarians, no chinese. Although, the rule expansions are OK while cancelling the "Come about". Jack

Ahoy, welcome and hooray from the other side of the ocean, too Nice tae meet ye', and always a handbroad of water below the keel. Merry meet, Jack

Schnaps, dearest lass' (it's a german word ) Jack

Well, 'guess thats also crazy names fae new vessels:))) Our tavern is the "Cutthroad Inn" Fair winds, Jack

My Top Ten for this year: 1: Basic wear: Pants, boots, shirt, vest, sash 2: Overgarnment: Frockcoat or jacket, maybe a cape (depends on what the day lets to expect) 3: Belt with purse, bulletbag, knife, leather scabbard with spyglass (to spy for Rumba... ), bag for navigators tools 4: Hat. Normally a tricorn, sometimes my "captains hat", looks a little like Napoleon), normally I wear a bandana under the hats 5: Powderhorn or cartridge box, fittet with gun toolkit 6: Weapons. Cutlass or rapier, pistol, blunderbuss...(depends on what the day lets to expect) 7: Jewellery. Necklace, poison ring, whatever (except aztec coins), peasants ring 8: Tools. Belaying nail, flint and striker, thinderbox, marlin spike, knapping hammer, little bottle with cun grease and oil, a completely off-period small first aid kit including pills to cure the headache as a result of the evening before) etc., all stored in 9: Heversack, containing 8) 10: Dog. Gero, rosa or Anny (depends on what the day lets to expect) Keep ye' powder dry, Jack

Frizzen, certainly...:) I mixed up the words. I German, the frizzen of a flintlock is called "Batterie". I tempered mine using the Persoli tempering kit and have great spark results with german flint (quite cheap when knapping myself and easy to find, here at the coast we just have to dig in the garden for the grey ones). After all, your pistol is unbeatable. Keep ye' powder dry, Jack

Herewith you're all invited to join us on our pirates live roleplaying game "Seven Seas I-The Council Of The Captains". It will be held from 25th -27th August 2006 in Verden/ Germany (near Bremen/Hannover). All ye' pirates living or staying in Germany that time are kindly invited to join the game. For more information please give me a mail or, if you understand German, visit my website at The Pirates Of The Seven Seas Keep your powder dry, Jack

Great work, Captain! Do you use a hardened battery or the default come-along-one? The finish of the wood is great! Mine, I painted with brown oak-type colour and finished with a beeswax finish, but it's nothing comparing with yours! Keep your powder dry, Jack

Well, You'll find me in the very north. I'm at Hamburg. (certainly, I'm not a Hamburger after all.. ). Last weekend I had been to Nuremberg for a gun fair and passed Wuerzburg quite close... Very pity not knowing you are there. Keep your powder dry, Jack

Ahoy, here I'll show you a quite bad picture of my Buffcoat, 5,2 kgs. heavy, while fighting an ugly orc during a LARP last Newyear meeting. Buffcoat (containing me) This is the same one I wear also if I'm on a ship for sailing (woolen garb is not enough within the North Atlantic except "Loden"). If anyone of you can supply me with the name of the german museum where the coat is...well...I'm german and I live in this country. Maybe I can catch more details upon it. If they used buffcoats (or similar) only until the late 17th, what did they use afterwards? Next weekend (this weekend I move) I join the german nautical museum in Bremerhaven to find out something more about this. Keep your powder dry, Jack

I also think that leather is a true material for coats. A common term innsome shanties is "hard leather oilskin", so I guess the used exactly that. Skin itself means leather, I guess. The large, downflapped wrapups may be a protection while fencing. I use similar ones with my fencing garb. Wool necessary? No idea. I guess, a buffleather coat is enough for the caribbean, but if northbound, fur and wool may be a welcome addition to the leather garnment. Fair winds, Jack

Slainte, Finn! Where have you been for returning now? Tell us about your adventures. But first, have a drink... Keep ye' powder dry, Jack

Me, I play the bodhran using several tippers of different weight, and, yes, hated by my dog and neighbars, the bagpipes... If this will not be enough, I also can raise my humble voice Cheers, Jack

...well, I'm working at a schipchandlers all day long, and there they are not so amused about pirates... But at home, let me guess...before my door is a shipsbell, and inside there are about 15 rapiers and cutlasses, some flintlocks, a large block hanging in my room wearing a lantern and if I open up my wardrobe, well, how should I say, there are more costumes than every days clothes. The dog is wearing a fabrik with printed skulls around the neck, ...to be continued. One of my friends decorated his (quite large) livingroom like a caribbean cantina, and even my helmsman's mum bought herself a skull-shaped poison ring Strange life, that... :) says Jack

Well, dearest Mermaid, my greatest thanks. Bartender, a fine Whiskey for the Fai...Ladie! Indeed I live in Germany and been born there, but my father is british. I work here, but maybe in the futue I'll try to get a job in New Zealand. Let's see what happens. About the dog: He's male, 7 years by age, has a policedog training and his name is Gero. There are another two dogs crossing my life, pics will follow:) One is a quite piratical looking french bitch named Annie, the other is my finest Lady Rosa. They belong to my helmsman. I come alongside with pics within the next days. Now I need a drink, I guess. Bartender... Keep ye' powder dry, Jack

Quite thanks for ye' warm welcome:) Mimi, Heidelberg is but very far frae the coast. I guess your crew wandered with you quite a lot o' days. I hoped you enjoyed Germany while your stay there No Maggie, I only have a German Shepherd. See below. That name I created acidetially. I simply took two of my favourite movie characters (the "Jack" from Pirates Of the Carribean, the Russell from Russel Crowe from Master and Commander). A week later or so I realised about the terrier... Sorry, Merry, I have a blade as fine as a blade can be, but I'm not the guy you know (by the way, it seems to be a common pirates name...I know a third one in the UK). The porter comes directly from the hold of the the "Roisin Dubh" and will be fine, I hope. Now let me sit aside the fire and enjoy a drink. It's awful cold in Germany, and it snows since days. Yours, Jack

Ahoj and "moinmoin", Jack Russell, my name. Requesting permission to board. I sailed over from the german coast, 'cause my head is a lot of money there... There are not many pirates over there, so I sail around, looking for new friends and booty. By the way, here's a barrel of fine porter...