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    Belayin' Pins

    in Thieves Market

    Posted

    Those pins that Royalist showed ye to are jest fine, and are used in full sized ships. Infact I have one that looks jest like the one with the lines 'round the neck in lightweight wood. There's a fantastic guy at Tall Ships in Dana Pt. in Sept., that makes them and I bought one from him years ago. I chose a lightweight one cuz it's less weight around me waist.

    Rumba Rue

    ** :D **

    Report on Southern Faire

    in Event Discussions

    Posted

    Ok, here's my report on S. Faire.

    The only Security our small group saw the whole time was OUTSIDE the faire, not inside.

    People were walking around partaking in their favorite drink, flasks also, especially since there is a booth selling flasks.

    What I liked: Nice trees, shade for most areas, the Santa Fe Dam made for a nice backdrop. Was really impressed for the vendors who had virtually little time to get a booth put together, to make the faire look good. The Friends of Faire area was extremely spacious and looked comfortable, a few new food booths that I hadn't seen before at that faire (who would have thought to put frozen chocolate dipped cheesecake on a stick? Amazing). There were lots of people, and plenty in pirate costume. The funny thing was, there were no people of the faire engaging guests with fun, but the pirates sure were. I saw a few even entertaining the guests with their antics. In fact I was asked to have my picture taken several times, along with my co-hort, Boats. Hmmm, the only thing that I was wearing that gave away my pirate persona was my hat. The rest, including my sunglasses were just not what I usually wear.

    What I didn't like: The lack of vendors. There were less than 160 various vendors, games, and food. In the past this was the place that overflowed with vendors- well into the 300 range. The items for sale at all booths seemed to be somewhat lacking - I was told many were cleaned out the first weekend, leaving not much left. That's not good business, as it's clear the vendors didn't have much stock to begin with.

    The food court area, while wonderfully large, had only a few hay bales around the few trees in the area. No shade provided overhead for people to eat comfortably on the grass if they had wanted to.

    I found out from Michael Foster, the head of the Military groups (I've known Michael for many years), told me the real problem was there was no camping allowed for anyone. So everyone, including vendors had to drive home every night, and then come back the next day. Some of these people live really far away! Because of this problem, many vendors opted not to do the faire, and Michael told me they lost over half their personal for the Military groups because of this problem.

    According to Michael, the budget was cut so drastically for the Santa Fe Dam recreation area, that it was thought by having the faire there, it would help with their budget crisis. Well charging $7.00 a car to get in to park I'm sure helped.

    It is unknown at this time whether the faire will be there next year. If it is, as Michael said, things had better change, including allowing camping.

    Otherwise people are just going to balk and not do it.

    I took pictures, so as soon as I download them and see what they look like, I'll post them if they are any good.

    Rumba Rue

    ** :lol: **

    Faire vs Re-enactment

    in Scuttlebutt

    Posted

    Regarding the SCA here in S. Calif., a small handful know the time period is suppose to be Medievil. But the rest, I've seen everything from gold lame to gingham check for dress on both sexes. Aaccckkk!

    It's such a hotbed of polictical crap, a lot have left and gone on to better things.

    I went to a couple of SCA events when I was first getting into the re-encactment scene many years ago, and all I saw was these big burly guys wacking each other with swords (taking out aggressions I think) and everyone else just lazing about in various time periods of clothing in various tents.

    I saw no effort for those doing nothing to attempt at speech, cooking, sewing or other things that might have been done in Medievil times.

    What a waste, glad I never got into it.

    An off-shoot of SCA has been the Adrian Empire. There has been a small group that has a nice display of weapons and stuff for people to see and there are a few willing to talk to the public about what they do. This past Escondido Faire they were teaching people how to do banging each other with the bamboo stuff. I also saw the women doing cooking, sewing and other things, though a few were just sitting around.

    At least they are making an effort to inform the public of their group. And their costuming at least for the men was decent. Unfortunately the women weren't. I won't go into that, other than it was wrong.

    Even further off-shoot, is the now growing pirate section. Many SCA 'ers, de-cry that such a thing did not exist. Well it most certianly did, though not in the garb that we currently see nowadays (that which represents the Golden Age of Piracy), which is where I can see members of the SCA having a problem with it.

    If people want to do pirate for that time period, the dress should reflect that and not have some of weapons (such as guns) that later pirates used. Do the research!

    Rumba Rue

    ** :ph34r: **

    Southern is OPEN!

    in May

    Posted

    Funny all I've heard about is the heavy Security around, nothing about how the faire is. Makes you kind of wonder.

    I'm going this Sat. (4/30), so I'll see for myself, and hopefully do a decent write up about it.

    I'm with you Pirate Petee, I'll bring my small flask, and just go into the privy to snatch a drink if I have to.

    Hmmm, what I really need is a small basket for my junk I tend to carry. Off to the Thrift store...

    Rumba Rue

    ** ;) **

    Update on the Irving Johson

    in Scuttlebutt

    Posted

    From Jamica Rose (PRP) and Claire Warren (Tales of the Seven Seas)

    Everyone, below is an email I recieved from Allen Rawl, the master

    shipbuilder who built the Irving Johnson, which recently ran aground and was rescued in southern CA. He gives us a detailed update on the condition of the ship and includes photographs. - Claire

    From: "Allen Rawl"

    To: >Subject: IRVING JOHNSON-GROUNDING UPDATE-4-15-05

    Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:20:23 -0700

    Et-al,

    Last weekend, I rode to Ventura and checked out the damage inflicted upon

    IRVING JOHNSON as a result of recent grounding. Two planks were removed port-side forward exposing some of the stem assembly.

    The gripe, at the forefoot, was completely ground away by the apparent

    pounding on the rock jetty the first day or two. This left the bronze

    bolts hanging out there and as Providence would have it, she continued pounding her bow on the rocks and the bolts were “clinched over”, as one would clinch a nail, which “re-fastened” the bow assembly keeping it together. Although the stem was taken away nearly back to the rabbet, none of the hull planks let go—quite surprising. The only holes in the hull are two punctures forward where the rocks eventually punched-in a plank or two, between the frames, causing a leak. The forward-most piece of the lead ballast keel was disfigured and actually bent laterally, which will need to be removed and straightened.

    When IRVING turned stern-to the rocks, her rudder was damaged considerably but can be easily repaired. The after-piece of the false-keel, just aft of the lead ballast keel was damaged and will need repairs or replacement.

    Later in the episode, she was beam-to the sea swell, leaving her

    port-side, at the turn of the bilge resting in the sand. This part of her hull is merely cleaned to the point where no further sanding will be necessary before painting her bottom. When the salvage crew arrived on site, they pumped her out to look at her hull from the inside then quickly had to pump water back into her hold, because she was not taking on water fast enough to keep her down in the sand so she wouldn’t continue pounding until they drug her off.

    There is no damage to her spars or rig, except for the bob-stay, which was broken when one of the two lines was wrongly lead during the first attempt to pull her off, and some of the chainplates show signs of cracking near the head, which will be cause to remove all of them and have the weld there reinforced.

    The folks at Channel Island Harbor say that the shoal there is notorious

    for moving radically in a very short period of time and that IRVING is the

    first wooden boat to survive a grounding there for more than a day.

    As one local reported put it: there was “128 long tons---displaced” for

    3-1/2 days.

    Allen

    Photos:Irving Johnson

    Rumba Rue

    ** :ph34r: **

    Lord Of Illusion

    in Poetry

    Posted

    Bravo! Well done Madame!

    Aye ye made me think back when I t'was young and dumb an' t'was treated so by some men.

    Ah, life is never easy and it certianly has it's ups and downs as we have all experianced.

    But we get through it and move on, hopefully to better things.

    Hang in there! hug.gif

    Rumba Rue

    ** :lol: **

    Southern is OPEN!

    in May

    Posted

    Unfortunately, we couldn't make it out this weekend (23rd) as all sorts of things weren't going right. Started off with a call from my friends saying they couldn't make it until the following Sat. then a good chunk of last night (22nd), Boats was up dealing with a sick cat. That in turn left him not feeling so great with no sleep, so it's just as well we didn't make it.

    So Diego, we'll hopefully see you and Rummy on the 30th.

    Rumba Rue

    ** B) **

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