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the rope rammer and spounge! has anyone ever made one of these things, and did it work? i keep thinking of the saying "pushing a rope up hill" every time i see it in a book.

i watched for two or there seasons, i liked it. it showed you what it was really like to be on a small boat at sea, dangerous!!!!

your download doesn't seem to be working.

here in the lynnhaven area of virginia beach it is 23degs with about 4-5inches of snow on the ground and still snowing.

this time of the year they are what you call ice pirates!

that also my thinking on the wooden banisters, the sprits sail rig is a great rig because there isn't a boom down low to dodge, i built a lug rig for my boat, but it had more bow forward the mast then yours. there's is a book called "american small sailing craft" by howard l. chapelle" you may find it in your local libary or online, it shows tons of drawings of sail rigs. building the boom fork(goose neck) could be as simple as cutting a fork from a piece of plywood with a tange to run up under the boom slightly and bolting it on.

even a small boat is better then no boat. it a sweet looking rig. you might try making what you need yourself. i built a sailing rig for a old boat i owned. there's alot of stuff at the local hardware store that can be used.

the only call for silence other then a church service or the captian speaking or lights out is the drill for exercising the great guns. the second command after "take heed" is "silence". this is the british navy drill, i read somewhere that the french didn't demand silence of the gunners at the guns and there was much confusing because of it. i'll try and find that quote.

i think i saw those sold by somke and fire, they had alot of things that were french cut or style. you know the problem with the french is they are just so french. you might try doing a period sreach on the other side of the channel. pirates wear what they catch. it does look good they had a longer one they was good looking too.

we had a nor'easter here in the tidewater area of virginia last week, quite a blow, it lasted for 2 days. it washed a "huge" barge up onto sandbridge beach here in virginia beach. the barge was bound for philly from puerto rico and is loaded with exports from that island "rum". if you want to see the barge google wtkr3.com .

i'm into antiques chests bring a good price. take a look on ebay. that baby looks like it could be worth some coins, don't touch it until you have antique dealer look at it, you my be able to upgrade your kit for what you get from it.

i did wood block printing in high school print shop. we had a (i think) roller press, do you have a press?

this tread has gotten intresting, so i got my "time table of history" third adition out. i found two early entries on steam. the first 1690 "Fr. engineer Denis Papin (1647-1714) devises pump with pistion raised by steam" the second 1707 he "invents high pressure boiler".

i'm now adding goggles to my period attire !!!

i don't think i had ever seen that on before. enjoyed it, thanks.

may 24 1572 drake sailed from england for the spanish main the town of nombre de dios. they were provisioned for a full year and armed to the teeth with cutlasses, pikes, pistols, muskets even bow and arrows. they march into the town with a flourish of trumpets, drums and a shower of flaming arrows. not the golden age, but "pirates" "the spainish main" time life books.

don't know if you found your lanterns, i did some looking and i think they are medevial in style. there is one place that sells a iron lantern but it's not close to your photo.

that sounds great can't wait to see them.

good, i had started to read it but had put it back on the self to do other things. i'll have to get it back out before i see the dvd.

google "maryland dove" find the photo gallery it has some great shots of the boat below decks.

may i ask where did you get the rounded stock for the sides?

cloaks were also known as "roquelaires" or rockets.

if you want the correct size of charts from that period google the "national maritime musuem" in england then search sea charts, they have a great collection of carts from several centuries.

i think you might have something going there, not bad at all. i wouldn't want mine to be too large, it needs to be at a size where you can easlly transport it and spead it out on a table with out having to clear all your other suff off of it. i use a table thats 26" by 60" and i have most of my stuff on it. most musuems will give you one of those plastic folding tables to work off of they are about 30" by 66" my guess i don't have one handy. the chart that i presently use is a 1612 repo of virginia by john smith. it is not the best, but it has some interesting info on it to point out when you are demo'n navigation. the chart is 16" by 14" it is a workable size. how would on the clarity look if you reduced a chart to say 26-30" 16"-20"?