Saber

The little son of a friend of mine just lost two fingertips at the first knuckle from one hand in an accident. His hand was caught in a bicycle chain. I'm sending out a little "treasure" to him from the pirates. I need quick ideas for fun things to do. I'm going to put his message in a bottle, include a little bag full of treasure coins, I'll try to locate a chest of somesort if I can find something, and the main present is a baseball cap with a skull and crossbones on it that I just got for him. I need quick ideas of extra pirate-like treasures, things like eyepatches or ??? to include. Fire away gang! I need ideas quick!!

Aye Captain Flint I found that image of the gun you were talking about, very nice weapon... I hope this image comes out ok. <img src="http://www.discoversea.com/featured_artif/IMAG0008.JPG"/> Well as you can see, it didn't work but the url to the site is listed in the code, anyone interested can take a look by pasting in: http://www.discoversea.com/featured_artif/IMAG0008.JPG or just clicking the link I accidently added

Ahoy.... Tis Bob with the bad feet! Claire made a good choice when selecting those moc-style boots, seems soft enough on the top and now we just have to test how the bottoms do over time. Much better then those fancy boots I had before...

Oh the Pain On the drama Oh Crap I'm at work!!!! I can feel the double wisor tightening around my next, the chair below my bottom begin to sway to and fro, soon it will be time to meet the Land Captain of the School... Perhaps its a day to dance with the Captain's daughter. OH do I miss being on the sea. Landlocked Saber

Ahoy Mates Ah but it would take just a breeze and a whisper to get me to leave work today to head to the Royaliste. As Captain said, you gotta take your chances with the sea and sailing, fog, rain, swells and hail, it don't matter at all when your sailin.... Now for the Hawaiian Chieftain, its purty to look at and it might be great to sit on but???? Do ya just wanna sit or do you want to SAIL. Then we have the Royaliste! Set to be sailed, ready to fire, quick to board! She's the Queen of the Bay!

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Captain!!!

Captain of the Royaliste…. I had to chuckle at the comments of RumbaRue…. It has been my distinct pleasure to be able to sail on the Royaliste on several occasions including one of our more recent trips that included over 20 fully dressed and armed Pirates of the Bay Area. This being said, the Royaliste carried her passengers mainly on the bow and aft portions of the ship, leaving the entire gun deck to the helmsman and a rigger. Now adding that space in I would guess that it would be easy to have 30 people on her decks at any one time and that’s to say nothing of the area below decks. The Royaliste is a 71' OA gaff-rigged, square-tops'l ketch refit to specifications of an 18th-century dispatch gunboat/bomb ketch. ROYALISTE COMPARISON TO A LITTLE OLDER WELL KNOWN GROUP OF WORLD TRAVELING SEA VESSELS Nina = 67 feet long, 21 feet wide Niña was the smallest vessel in the fleet: 67 feet long with a crew of 24. She sailed more than 25,000 miles on three voyages to the New World. Pinta = 70 feet long, 22 feet wide The Pinta (literally “The Painted One” and Spanish sailors’ slang for whore) was slightly bigger than Niña at 70 feet with a crew of 26. Santa Maria = 77 feet long, 26 feet wide Santa Maria was a lumbering merchantman, a clumsy cargo ship never able to keep up with the caravels. She was 77 feet long and, with Columbus in command, carried about 45 crewmen. After a third trip to the New World, Nina was captured by pirates in the Mediterranean Sea. She was recaptured by her crew and disappeared from history in 1499, possibly sold and renamed. At La Navidad the charred remains of Santa María were washed away by the tropical rains. The Pinta, after several trips to the Caribbean, went down in a storm somewhere near Truks Islands Hey Royaliste.. I guess there’s enough room aboard for us Pirates up here *S* You know, I know and anyone who’s been on the Royaliste knows, it’s a great ship made for sailing and plundering the high seas at will…… Loyal Crewman when the Captain will have me… Saber

Arrrrrrrrrr.. Be gentle good wife, tis our treasure you be depletin! LOLOLOL Still to have the honor of sailing on the Royaliste, it be worth it no matter the cost. Well almost no matter the cost! LOLOLOL

Fuel? Does that mean we need to bring the pirate plastic? LOLOLO

AHOY CAPTAIN of the Royaliste!! Not only will we be there with flintlocks but flintlocks that fire! LOLOL I've learned my lesson with oil in the pistols. I worked for another hour cleaning out the soggy powder caked in the barrel! Just goes to show you that listening to the Captain pays off in the end. Come Saturday morning... Ye on the sea of the Bay beware! There be a Pirate ship out on the loose!

Hey!!!! Wait a minute!!! Talking about taking one for the team! All I heard when that bucket of water hit my head was something from the crowd watchig and that was............ OH HELL NO!!!!! Thats exactly what I thought for the next several hours as the water drained from my ear! Don't mess with a woman and her bucket I says now......

Aye Lass... I know you can see my bonny wife and she's all the woman this man could ask for. Where she goes I go fer we're a team.

Do you all know how hard it can be for a pirate when your compared to a cannon? Being the hubby of the famous Claire of Tales of the Seven Seas isn't an easy task mates! You just gotta love the way she gets after things don't ya? LOLOLOL Now don't get mad at me ya Pirate wench!

No matter how accurate you think you are with clothing, it just isn't so. Is the wool for your pants spun from a spinning wheel? Is the leather for your shoes two hundred years old and cobbled by a freehand shoemaker? Is anything at all truly from the period or reproductions of one nature or another to LOOK like the real articles? Enough of my tirade right? LOLOL Well I know that I like being around people who want to have fun for the sake of fun itself, besides, as any good pirate knows.. Articles are more or less guidelines *S*

Ahoy.. To be sure, the Ojai pirate event will be some fun in the making. THe Bonny Lass Posion Quill has all kinds of pirate type plans fer us all.. Now's a good time to start planning on next years Blackbeard Festival in Hampton Virginia.. Fun event and lots to do in the area around Hampton.... Saber

Ahoy Jenny Darlin.... Don't feel lost lass, I've been here just a week but only onsite a few times myself... Lots different then the other sites I belong to but then what could you expect when your coming in to Pirate land! We be lucky so far, we've all points of the compass to help us and it seems come good mates to be help guide us. Saber