Rabble Rousin' Robin

Thank you, I'll definitely look into the book you recommended. Pleasant dreams...

Robin

Hello, I have surfed around through your waters and have found you to be a knowledgeable and helpful sort.

I'm trying to write a novel and am at a time where I need a good storm scene. I've got a Brigantine, set with 80-odd crew members sailing from New Orleans on their way to the Spanish Main. I need a hurricane, and I've got one, a nice historical fact acutally and it was quite a nasty one.

What I require of you brave souls is advice and information on what would happen.

Have any of you sailed through a hurricane? What happens? What would the crew do? How would the vessle handle? I mean to have the mainmast break and the whole lot to limp into a port for repair.

Thanking you in advance,

your most humble wench Robin

Hi, I'm new here and I've been told you guys are a great bunch of people.

I'm interested in the War of 1812, Jean Lafitte and fellow Baratarians. I'm writing a historical novel which incorporates all of the above. Unlike some, I'm researching till my eyes fall out to make sure my novel is as historically accurate as possible.

I was told by Wayne Edwards of the New Orleans Historical Society that the most accurate historical works on the Lafittes and the other privateers who operated with them are:

The Baratarians and the Battle of New Orleans / by Jane Lucas de Grummond, with Biographical sketches of the veterans of the Battalion of Orleans, 1814-1815 / by Ronald R. Morazan. Baton, Rouge, La. : Legacy Pub. Co., [1979]

Renato Beluche, smuggler, privateer, and patriot, 1780-1860 / Jane Lucas De Grummond. Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, c1983

I haven't had a chance to check them out yet because they seem impossible to find up here in Canada. Anyway, possibly this information will be of use to some of you.

Robin