Dutchman

http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Chests-Legacy-Extraordinary-Boxes/dp/156158651X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294305686&sr=1-2 see if you can find a copy of this. tis a review of some amazing pieces

and he's a ships captain........... btw, hampton blackbeard is back to june this year.

if ye stop drinking that gutrot and get Cro... er ummm.... yer affairs in order you wouldn't keep getting those migraines.

capn is always looking for something to cure the headaches

hmmm, how to figure out how to print this in book format

of course, we thought the need for Sterling's personal chemist was not needed for a bit but then there IS reggie ..... come to think of it, she's MY chemist. I just share:)

ok, ill start..... tis my opinion and not based on actual facts, i'm too lazy to look stuff up tonight. ITS A TV SHOW, NOT REAL LIFE- ITS RIGGED now i dont mean rigged in that the pirate has been stacked to win, but they are looking at the effectiveness of weapons-not reaction of man. If we want to look at that, one could argue that the knight would have been worn out just getting to the beach, running after the pirate, hefting all that armor around and therefor would have lost by default. So with that in mind, i would rule out any time line constraints. To light a grenadoe, slow match could have been used in this scenario. Other than the legend of Black Beard, i have not heard of anyone else carrying it under their hat. Carried in a can designed to contain lit slowmatch, its a matter of transferring the "cherry" of one match to the next, igniting the grenadoe. It happens all the time on a cannon line. PSSST- hey mate, me linstock is out can i have yer cherry? Sure, here ya go. Voila- second linstock is lit. Timely? No, but imagine a dozen of these things being flung at you from a group over the course of fifteen or thirty seconds. I'm sure the slow match can has a name, but i have no idea. The firelock on the beach firing? Maybe. Its a 1/3% crap shoot to start with. End result, its a show.

Thanks for the review foxe. I'm glad you enjoyed it. just a comment on your following observation "It is of course possible to distinguish between those 'local legends' which may have some basis in fact, and those which are the result of imaginative tourism officials..." The local Blackbeard legend where most all of us in this area fall to is compliments of Colonial Willamsburg, that is "the" local colonial era resource, which has instilled their Blackbeard piratical view for at least three generations of locals and since its Williamsburg, it must be gospel, despite independent research. Apparently it costs too much to rewrite the brochures and museum plaques when errors are pointed out to them.(Non-piratical issues, sorry)

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The legging picture looses some detail here, but it looks like the leggings are separated from the socks. I'm really interested in the hat though. I've had one here for years, just replaced it last year for the Chesapeake schooner race this past oct, but it lasted through years of crab and oyster season and more sailboat races that i can shake a stick at. @doubledutch- which museum in Gloucester did your hat up at?

another great job!

aha! i knew this was a topic somewhere... hey folks, i ran across some prints that were done by a french artist named Du Monceau i think around 1730-40, maybe a bit later. Take a look at the two drawings below. While not cold weather gear per se, these are novascotian fishermen who know a hell of a lot about it. Lets look at the fellow in the middle. Other than what looks like wooden shoes or square toed leather- is he wearing leg coverings of some sort? Now here is the one i'm drooling over. First, yes they are standing in barrels. According to the accompanied text to keep them clean and allows them to keep their balance onboard. OK,OK, on to the clothing.... the guy in the middle obviously has an apron over his clothing so we lose a lot of detail. How about his hat though- the beginnings of the gloucester fisherman's hat? Does anyone have any info on the history of them. I have a hat blank just waiting for a revelation. Onto the fellow on the right... a solid front and permanent hooded capote of some sort?

did you check with ash before sellin the children.

@ cascabel. having to sit in on many state level meeting issues- YES, all the way around.