pyrateleather

There are a couple of versions of the DVD available new & used from sellers on Amazon

Very nice work!

Sorry about the filthy thievin' b@$+@rd$!

The Morningstar is still alive and well. She is named the Nakalay junk, and still does tours. The company used to promote her as the ship that stared in cutthraot island, but now seems to have distanced themselves from that "honor". She actually played both parts, the reaper first then repainted and redressed as the Morningstar. The battle scenes that you see where done in a tank with two separate ships custom built for the movie. When you see the reaper explode, it was only the "set" ship, not the real ship. I kind of have a wee bit of an obsession with the ship. So much so that I built a 24 ft functioning semi-replica. I can also make similar vessels for anyone who might have a piratical itch, and need a ship of their own.

Post some pictures of the replica you built. I'd love to see it!

A friend sent me a link to this electronic Pirate Shooting Gallery Game on sale for a measly $12.99 plus $5.00 shipping.

The pirates talk & move across the deck & you aim the flintlock's laser at the crosshairs to knock over the pirates & the screen keeps score.

It looks like fun and the price is right so I had to pick one up & thought I'd share... It's a deal of the day kind of thing so it goes away tonight at midnight.

On Amazon they cost twice as much so I thought $12.99 sounded pretty good.

Got mine this weekend too... it is really neat to see how many different directions these could go and everyone's ideas!

I just received Pew's book from Pyrateleather today.

Who has my book?

Mine seems to be lost in a vortex too, anyone?

Not sure about the ship but the figurehead was offered in an eBay auction several years ago along with lots of other props & costumes.

Pew's big awesome book from the first round is on the way to Ransom Priority Mail today... would have sent it yesterday but St. Patrick's Day got in the way.

I do not have a book for March because Kate did not have one for February so Ransom will not have a book in April.

I'd take another 100 should you make another order.

Yes, just one of the many reasons why I am selling them.

There will be about 50 more in the next few months...various cuts and colors...then I can switch time periods and sell my 18th century stuff after that.

Beautiful stuff, not for me of course, but I did pass them on to some friends.

50 more plus 18th century stuff? You must have big closets

Well, the event was quite successful and most everyone showed up despite 6" of snow. Over $1,600 was raised for charity and it seems a good time was had by all.

Check out some of the pictures from the event here we'll add more as we receive them.

Mine went out Saturday Priority Mail.

Would love to join you but the Pirate's Ball is this weekend... sorry you couldn't make it.

4 pounds malt extract

I am surprised that malt extract goes back so far.

This surprised me too... the malt extract is listed in the list of ingredients but not in the wording of the recipe, it mentions "four gallons of small ale". I am guessing the author substituted the water & malt extract for the small ale... I wasn't really sure what small ale was but upon a quick internet search I found:

From Wikipedia

Small beer[14] (also small ale) is a beer/ale that contains very little alcohol. Sometimes unfiltered and porridge-like, it was a favoured drink in Medieval Europe and colonial North America where George Washington had a recipe involving bran and molasses.[15] It was sometimes had with breakfast, as attested in Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. Before public sanitation, cholera and other water-transmitted diseases were a significant cause of death. Because alcohol is toxic to most water-borne pathogens, and because the process of brewing any beer from malt involves boiling the water, which also kills germs, drinking small beer instead of water was one way to escape infection. Small beer was also produced in households for consumption by children and servants. It was not unknown for workers in heavy industries and physical work to consume double figure (pint) quantities of small beer during a working day to maintain their hydration levels. This was usually provided free as part of their working conditions, it being recognised that maintaining suitable levels of hydration was indeed essential for optimum performance.

Small beer/small ale can also refer to a beer made of the "second runnings" from a very strong beer (e.g., scotch ale) mash. These beers can be as strong as a mild ale, depending on the strength of the original mash. This was done as an economy measure in household brewing in England up to the 18th century and is still done by some homebrewers and microbrewers such as Anchor Brewing Company.

Metaphorically, small beer means a trifle, a thing of little importance. The term is also used derisively for commercially produced beers which are thought to taste too weak.

Just picked up Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers, The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation by Stephen Harrod Buhner

I haven't tried any of the recipes yet but there are several from the 17th and 18th century. This one caught my attention since it is not only period but is also a treatment for scurvy... how appropriate!

Dock Ale- 1694

Ingredients:

4 gallons water

4 pounds malt extract

3 handfuls new pine or fir, spring growth

3 handfuls scurvy grass or horseradish, above ground plant

4 ounces sharp-pointed or yellow dock root, dried and ground

peels of 4 oranges

yeast

"Provide four Gallons of Small Ale; instead of Hops, boyl in it three Handfuls of the Tops of Pines, or Firr; after it has done working in the Vessel, put into a Canvas-bag three Handfuls of Scurvy-grass, four Ounces of the Root of Sharp-pointed Dock prepar'd, and the Peels of four Oranges; hang the bag in the Vessel, with something to sink the Bag: After it has stood a Week, and is clear, drink of it for your ordinary Drink. This is frequently used for the Scurvy, and is an excellent Diet-drink."

Here's me in some of my Victorian-inspired costumes... I'm hoping to Steampunk it up a little by adding goggles or other accessories. The Steampunk idea is pretty new to me but I think it's really cool so I'd like to delve into it more!

Here are a few o' me favorite mugs & drinking vessels...

Made by the infamous Captain Goldtooth- That IS a full size bottle of rum, the biggest tankard will hold a few of them or at least a whole 6-pack.

Very nice piccie, PyrateLeather.

I'm droolin' over th' pistol. Hehehe, tis a nice pisol. May have t' sequester Barbossa (greg) t' obtain it fo' me. Hehehe...

Tis a very nice hat, Sam. Right nice on ye.

~Lady B

Thanks LadyB,

The pistol is just a replica... trigger is broken off actually, it was one of the pieces I acquired several years ago when the Cutthroat Island props & costumes were on eBay, the vest is too... I know a lot of people hate that movie but I love the costumes & props I got from it & wish I could get ahold of some more!

Hey, it takes guts to wear a coconut bra!

Coconut bras don't hold guts.... less yer wearin' it wrong.......

My guts were definitely not bein' held in in that picture!

Sorry to make you all hurl on your keyboards this morning!

Yup, seems like most people do 3-5 pages, 50 or so pages should do... This is my first round on the sketchbook project & I really enjoy seeing all of the cool stuff that people add to everyone's books as they pass through.

I'm still anxiously awaiting this month's book so I can get to drawing & such.

I think I posted in this thread long ago but here's a more recent photo. I thought it was a great shot from my friend Stephen Ford at http://www.rocketgnome.smugmug.com

Yup, the hair is right on: straight, long and parted in the middle. You made me a bit skinnier than I am in real life, but I don't mind that one bit!!! I just gives me something to work towards in the gym!

This is a picture I found of myself online from the PA Renn Faire in October. (I don't know who that guy was, but he was nice enough )

http://flickr.com/photos/74771420@N00/2947227126

Hey Rogue Mermaid- you look much better as a mermaid than I do!

I'm probably going to regret posting that picture here but I have no shame

Still need one more? if so I'm in