Dutchman

the one where you are paying me five dollars per pound to dispose of that hazardous old black powder you've been carrying around. hey wait. why does mad dog always come first? stupid rats.

hey folks. below is an email floating around one of the ropemaking sites i subscribe to. while not pirate related, its darned neat footage of the wright brothers and the instrument discussed is a simple piece of line. neat stuff all the same. -dutch Do you know what was the first flight instrument? STRING! Wilbur Wright used a piece of string - called a yaw string - as early as their 1902 glider. It was used to gauge their sideslip angle. I edited this little video from original 1908-1909 footage of the Wright brothers' flights in Europe. At the end of the video you can see the first film footage ever taken from an airplane - and you can clearly see the yaw string dangling in front of the airplane. Since the Wrights invented flight in Dayton and practiced at Huffman Prairie in Greene County Ohio - not far from the Hooven & Allison factory in Xenia - I wonder if the first flight instrument was Hooven & Allison twine. I bet it was. http://www.daytoninnovationlegacy.org/

double post- oops. silver, the leather buttons serve that function as well as add a material layer between the iron nail head and natural fibers of the rope which keep them from rotting as quickly- much the same way a ship becomes "iron sick". of course it doesn't do anything for the core of the rope. as far as the rest of the description, i have no idea but i have seen nails placed every turn of the line. it appears to describe their placement. i'll talk to some of the old duffers at the museum this weekend and see what we cant find for you.

good- someone else to hump the body bag around----oh um yeah, hey mate, glad you'll be around to help move gear and set up the camp. The line is being picked up tomorrow for the rigging party. cookie and I hit Costco for the dinner supplies and we're under budget so far, we still have 15 gallons of slaw, hotdogs, burgers, butts and one hog on the hoof to contend with! Capt. Bo sent a goodie box to be sold off- got some nice pieces in it. Hatchet Meg is making cakes to sell off- it's a dry facility, but they didn't say anything about eating your rum! See every one in a couple of days! huzzah

did my order for the hammoc get in before M.D's?

be damned, a modern boat! send pictures mate.

holy shythe cross. how far did you have to chase her?

calling for a shower and lightning sometime. you know how it is this far north , thats alright, if you don't like the weather- wait an hour it'll change.

yeah its still going to be a ball. i think we may take on replacing some of the rigging on the exloprer for a hands on project for the weekend. so bone up on eye and back splicing.

ya ever hear wet musical instruments. orchestra wont play if its wet.

hmmm- rain

no one is exaclty sure what it means. here are a couple of possibilities. a welch saying or abreveated proverb of some sort. a location. Teye might be a last name, B.A. is abreviated for the sailors designation of able bodied, and there is an inscription inside the original that could coincide with east india company atlantic fleet.

hey mates, i got one of the first ones. These are good looking pieces, enough so that I had one of the national geo folks do a double take when I was portraying Sam Bellamy over the winter.

hey cross, thought you were getting a gun- where this boat thing come from? how bout my hammock? oh yeah, nice table.

Ahoy folks, its a week away and I met with the orchestra and museum yesterday. Full speed ahead! Our head count looks to be around 50 in the camp. below is the scedule, if anyone would like to add in, please let me know asap so we can adjust the food count for saturday. Just a friendly reminder, all meals are on the participants except saturday dinner. Water and ice will be provided for the duration. The grill at the museum will be open on saturday for lunch, it looks like you can walk out with a full belly for around $10 or less. If anyone has any questions, please let me know. PS. remember who you're dealing with, the mariners olympic events are not as straight forward as they seem. MARITIME FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Thursday, June 3rd................................Participants arrival and Camp Set up. FRIDAY, JUNE 4TH...........SCHOOL OF THE SAILOR 9:30 am- All hands morning report.....Dutch 10:00 am – To the farm for Luna presentation by Chip Collamore Will drive over in cars, so please carpool. 11:30 am- Lunch all Hands (enjoy the local options and scenery or head back to camp) List of available restaurants in D’ville, maps will be available at the camp. Bella Pizza (Lunch and Dinner) Café By the Bay (Breakfast and Lunch only) Sunset Grille ( Breakfast,Lunch and Dinner) CoCoMo’s( Lunch and Dinner) Galley (Lunch and Dinner) Great Value Grocery Store (Deltaville Market-Has Deli open 8am till 8pm) Moo’s Deli (Breakfast and Lunch only) Little Sue gas station 2 1:00 pm- 2:00pm Cannon Safety.......................Vigilant Crew 2:00 pm-2:30pm Joinery/ carpentry...................................Gunner 2:30pm-3:00pm Chantey School.......................Willoughby and Crew 3:30pm-4:00pm Seamanship............................Blackbeard’s Crew 4:00 pm ALL HANDS FOR HELP WITH FOOD PREP FOR SATURDAY. Day is over...... Dinner (on your own.) "explorer" is available for sunset cruises if anyone would like. Saturday, JUNE 5TH FESTIVAL (OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) 9:15 am –All hands Daily report..........Dutch 9:30am- Camp cleanup and ready for Public 10:00am-Open 1st mariner game------Skiff race (Need two crew members from each group. One to row the other to naviguess.) Living History stations one per group running in the camp at this time. Stations to be determined based on staffing availability. Please switch off at the stations so everyone can have an opportunity to visit and see what every one else is doing. 11:00am- Scallywag School (BBC) 11:30am- all cannon crews and guns on the line and ready for noon demo. 12:00 noon- Cannon Demos (All crew) 12:30pm Grappling Hook Toss (1) per crew 1:15 pm Hawser Relay (1) per crew 2:00pm Scallywag School (BBC) 2:30pm Knot Tying (2) per crew 3:00pm Mariners Musical Chairs (1) member from each crew(Willoughby, Bo and Mingo on instruments) 4:00pm Festival Closed. Park Closes till 6pm for set up of Dinner and Concert. All Hands for setup. Tables, Chairs, Food prep and grounds cleanup. 5:15pm Dinner all Hands ( provided for all who have been on site since 10am) 6:00pm Public access for Dinner and Concert starts at 6:30pm til 8pm. 8:00pm- All Hand help with clean up. SUNDAY, JUNE 6TH 9:30am- All Hand Morning Report.......Dutch Clean up Breakdown Thanks for coming !!! Ice available for crews (free) every morning

hey gang, they made it safely across and back. it sounds like it was a fun trip. check out their blog spot. http://navalheritage.blogspot.com/

korisios, the english language is a bit tough. proper pronunciation can be even worse, then there are all the regional slangs. on the other side of the coin, i'd love to learn words for some of the common items we always use for reenacting. how about the dutch translation for games such as dominos, checkers (or draughts), playing cards?

from what i understand, bamboo was introduced to the states around the rev war era as packing material from the orient. that out of the way, i have a cup made from 4" diameter bamboo dated 1740 that was carved off the coast of africa for my ????great grandfather.

check with the moderator of the room you would like to put it in. and there are no bad questions to make sure things are done smoothly, thanks for checking with something like that.

well i'll be buggered. sure enough. the shipping date is 3/8 on the tube. huzzah!!!!!! well i still stand by my statements! quality care for your customers!

PoD, good news- they arrived and are beautiful! thanks mate hey pubsters, i'm going to take the liberty to describe my latest transaction with PoD. The first papers I got from him arrived with no problems. The second set fell to the mailing gnomes and never arrived. We waited and waited, communicating our concerns on both sides. After time we finally admitted they were gone, we really were hoping that ash, turtles or some mythical creature had caused their delay. PoD bent over packwards to make sure he had a happy customer when it was the shipping, and not the product, that was the hiccup. Thanks again for a great product!

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ok, noted. thank you for clarifying that. I still maintain its currently often misused in modern terminology. However, not as in jibs reference. my apologies.

*Soap Box* Please strike tall ship from your vocabulary, its a modern description originally used by event marketers to describe a traditionally rigged or designed vessel, or collection of them for an event, that has made it into main stream terminology. No where have i seen port entry books of the era describing a "tall ship". brigs, galleys, schooners, pinks, sloops, etc..... yes, lots of them!, but no tall ships. *please pardon the above soap box, now back to our regularly posted discussion, sorry* hey mate, here is a similar topic already going. http://pyracy.com/index.php?showtopic=10999 A few of us here have long boats and there are pictures floating around, maybe some owners would post new pics. If we get interest going in this tread relevant to the other, expect this topic to merge over. Wikipedia has a good primer to help explain what you are looking for. Hope this helps. In the days of sailing ships, a vessel would carry several boats for various uses. One would be a longboat, an open boat to be rowed by eight or ten oarsmen, two per thwart. In other words the longboat was double banked: its rowing benches were designed to accommodate two men. Other utility boats that might potentially be carried by a sailing ship include: * Launch * Gig * Jolly-boat * Cutter * Barge * Pinnace * Dinghy Unlike the dinghy or the cutter, the longboat would have fairly fine lines aft to permit its use in steep waves such as surf or wind against tide where need be. Like other ships' boats, the longboat could be rigged for sailing but was primarily a pulling boat. It had the double-banked arrangement in common with the cutter. This was possible as it had a beam similar to a cutter's but broader than that of a gig, which was single banked. The longboat was generally more seaworthy than the cutter, which had a fuller stern for such load-carrying work as laying out an anchor and cable. In a seaway or surf therefore, the cutter was more prone to broaching to. The Oxford English Dictionary notes uses of the word from 1515 to 1867. In later years, particularly in the Royal Navy, the longboat tended to be replaced by the whaler. The cutter was still in use in the 1950s but had been largely replaced by the 32 foot and 25 foot motor cutters. In some places such as Tristan da Cunha and Pitcairn Island, the surf boats are known as longboats, perhaps because the settlers who introduced them were European seamen. The Tristan da Cunha boats are single banked. The French link is to chaloupe, which in this context is a cutter.