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page 81 in the "BATAVIA'S GRAVEYARD" by mike dash (a large 1600's east indiamen) "Jeronimus and a half a dozen other distinguished passengers were shown to a warren of little cabins on the deck above (over the great cabin), where the quarters were smaller and more spartan".

sorry double post. 10yrs ago i made a fly from lowes heavy duty painter's tarp, after it was made sprayed it with a couple of coats of thompson's and that was it. last year i got caught in a downpour that lasted all day. it works.

i have some scrap oak, i need to check to see if it is wide enough. what are the dimensions of the head of the mallet and the depth and width of the groove? you have put a nice shape on the handle it looks like it would be comfortable to use.

took in harborfest today, was aboard the "kalamar Nyckle" they have woolding around their main mast. the buttons are placed in a row one above or below the other with 11 turns of rope in each woolding with six wooldings spaced out on the main mast. i thought the buttons might have been staggered guess not. the "Godspeed" was there from jamestown, one of the interpetors was wearing a nice looking sun ring around his neck, said he got it in the gift shop at jamestown, i'll have to check it out.

i need one of those, do you have a plan with measurments that you could share or did you just knock it out?

any ID yet. someone posted pics of spainish buttons about 2-3weeks ago some had crowns on them might compare the stamp with them.

it has the look of a military machete, and with the crown, my guess spainish colonial.

thanks dutch for the clarifcation on the buttons. i found the instuction on the "historic naval ship asso." website under mast and rigging. most other hits on the word was about putting a rope around someone forehead and tighting it until their eyes popped out. p.s. the string on the wright flyer is still used. we had them on the navy F-14, we used parachute cord.

i plan on trying to do some woolding on a small mast, i have found some instruction on how go about it. there is one or two things i'm not sure of. the first is the instuctions say to put a leather button under the head of each nail, is the button a washer in shape to keep the rope from working up the nail and freeing itself, or something else? the other is the nailing method as you progress along, my instuctions say "every turn when hoved tight is fastened with a leather button and nail, each nail being regularly below the other to the middle turn, and then above." can anyone break this down for me. thanks, also i don't have an illustration, one would be great.

i was in a cw group and we got a great deal. the ferry that crosses at jamestown was upgrading their life boats and we got 2 of the boats free, both were 28' one was oar powered the other diesel powered, the engine worked except for the starter, we would just hand pump the air start. rigged the diesel boat up to look like a steam launch. mounted a 12pdr in the bow and a spar torpedo. ran it up and down the elizabeth riv. for harborfest and cw events at fort norfolk. had a couple of fire fights with the american rover.

the us navy gave the city of norfolk, va. a battle ship 16in. guns. we have what they call the "ghost fleet" here. it's anchored out in the james river off of newport news. the goverment has been selling ships out of it for scrap for several years now.

in the time life books seafarers series "the explorers" page 142 shows a drawing of sailors cooking on deck using a fagon, it is called a woodburning stove in the narrative. i'll try to find were i got the word fagon for it.

research "the seamans grammar and dictionary" by john smith. he lists the vitaling of a ship for 190men. google the maryland dove there are some great pics of a small ships galley. some small ships cooked on deck in a metal stove called a fagon or a hogshead cut in half and filled with sand and lined with bricks.

quite a menu, more realist then the old worn out ships biscut and salt beef presentions. i would have like to have saw that in prepration. congrats to him again.

i forgot to ask what sailor grub did you whip up to get the award?

congrats! do i see a cook book in the making, will have to catch the tv show.

"whiskey in the jar" with me sport'n jenny, what better song would a sailor want?

congrates to both of you, i know you must be proud of him.

take a look and then pictures. lots of them!

thanks for that info jas. hook that put some pieces together, got to love the reserach. just went to the site and veiwed the drawings. i thought i had read somewhere about gun being fired by a hot iron but wasn't sure that could be what the object in the book was becuse it had what looked to be belaying pins stuck in it, they were likely iron rods with handles on them. like short fireplace pokers. thanks again

thanks for all of your inputs, you have my mind going now. say you are manning a swivel in the tops, a breezy place to be. do you think a slowmatch could be relit by a pistol muzzle flash? i have seen cannons fired by shooting a plank round into the vent. i did some more digging and i see that some linstocks have 2 matchheads as a backup system. the reason i asked this question is, when i'm firing the cannon i use one lit matchhead and some time may pass between shots so i will clip the coal off during the lag time. to relite i keep a small lantern a "safe distance" away from the gun. i was looking through a book called "adventure of sail 1520-1914" by donald macintyre pub. 1975. a pin and inck drawing on pg.159, from a 18th century naval manual(1726) show a gunner sighting his gun and in the background is a small trianglar object on short leg sitting on the deck with smoke coming out of the top and what looks like belaying pin protuding from it. the script next to the drawing says it is an apparatus for heating the linstocks. i have never seen anything like it. i do think something like that would be unsafe on board ship during a battle but in the 1700's who knows.

i have read that upon clearing for action all fires and lantrens are extinguished except the light for the powder room and the sickbay. has anyone ever read how you would go about relighting your slow match if it ever got blown out by the back blast of the vent.

thanks hawkyns, that would figure that it would be for the larger guns. i read where it was used when the gun ports had to be kept closed, larger gun being placed closer to the water line. i think it would be a waste of time to make when you have a 1.75" bore. in the artist remdishings it appers to be very flexible. p.s. solomon kane not at blockbuster.