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Hawkyns "What I haven't seen yet is something like this for the pyrate community. Partially, it's because we don't have the type of events that would lend themselves to that sort of thing. We can have a drunken carrouse anywhere, but where can we actually set up a carreening camp with an actual ship to work on and all the tasks that need doing. also, we are so fragmented that we we don't have an overall organising body that could set something like this up. Even without the ship, a large camp would require logistics, front money, and probably insurance. Sometimes, our independant attitude works against us." Ransom "The pyrate community could probably organize something like that eventually, but it would take time, money, and commitment from everyone to get it going. And finding a place to hold it would take a lot of searching, especially if you wanted the event on a coastline. You need a large bit of land, a place for everyone to camp, and a place for parking." well folks, please refer to the school of the sailor thread in the colonial seaport foundations crew section. We have one more event to do and then we start the planning. Its our event and the museum says we can do what ever the heck we want, within legal reason. BTW a rather large announcement will be out next week regarding an upcoming venture for the foundation. we are quite pleased with ourselves. edit* to eliminate any confusion. when i say "our event" its ours as in CSF and the crew may be coordinating it, but it belongs to all the maritime enthusiasts who show up to make it happen. I firmly believe in letting folks take ownership of what they are involved in. . . . . .that way i dont swing alone when it flops

pffft- try it on my side. I'm afraid to touch anything wearing that! Kids with cool aid are a bigger threat than staggering drunks- NO SPILLS NO SPILLS!!!!!!! I'm much happier being grungy, boat buildin ole me! Anyhow that was a grand event and the boys at the plank house know how to throw a todo. The midnight tour of the house was grand. Even though its a lot of speculation, its still awe inspiring to be in a house that was atleast around durring the time of the great one. The best though was the fish bowl party. Seems there was a private birthday party at the restaurant next to our camp. Nancy thought it polite to wander over and give a heads up of cannon fire. They blew her off, so we blew them off again and again and again and once more, we found another can of powder. Later, thanks to a wall of light from the restaurant, we attended the birthday party about twenty feet away through a wall of glass. we were there havin a good ole time on the lawn for about ten minutes before anyone saw us out there. then they called the cops......... edit** by the way, notice the 30 dorset buttons on the weskit. there are another 70 already made to put on the vents and flaps.

http://www.hmsrichmond.org/ has plans for hammocs. a little late for the period, but its not like there was lots of samples left behind either. http://pyracy.com/index.php?showtopic=14632 ,the first aboard Luna. Its a bit small so we've added six inches of material based on a persons height. we are going to run them fore & aft so we don't have too much of a constraint in the hold, but well only be able to string five up. you can find the weave in ashley's or use a sonnet weave appropriate for the number of lines that make the bridle.

i tried sculpy a while back and could not get it to keep the detail of the coins. it got stuck in the reliefs. i was using vegetable oil as a release,but not the spray kind like here. I cant wait to try this out over the weekend. thanks for posting this how to!

hey mates, a while back someone was asking about the making of an actual ale house bar from the period. while its not period, this is williamsburgs rendition of a bar that is currently being built in the new coffee house. there are numerous pictures, but the bar is on the last slide. http://www.dailypress.com/news/coffeehouse,0,5305731.photogallery

huzzah! a fine rendition of the events!!! and thats about how it happened too! As grace and I were accompanying the crew of the Vigilant that weekend, let me share my perspective. The clouds were forming as we were headed out to dinner so I figured I'd throw out some extra wind lines fore & aft about 30 feet out. Durring dinner the heavens let loose as described by Bright. Rather than run all the way back to camp, we figured what had blown over had blown over. Upon returning to camp we were indeed in the lull and got pounded again. Grace and I went to bed in a standing dry tent, others were not so lucky. Bright, thanks for minding the store- I didn't know till now who had looked out for the site.

this past summer in charleston we experienced a downpour of three inches in two hours and sustained winds of around 40 knots i think. there were around thirty pieces of tentage up and unfortunately all of the painters tarp tents and flies fell- about a dozen as i recall. In all fairness, this was a nasty blow and many commercial grade canvas pieces hit the ground as well. But a characteristic I noticed was as there is no waterproofing on the stuff it absorbs water and stretches out as it makes its death march to the ground. I do not know how this stuff handles with a water proofing applied though. I have a painters tarp i have used as a sun shade for a few years now and its wonderful even handling brief light summer showers, but not much more. This is a great tent plan and looks like it will go together very easily. As a thought. I've had good luck finding decent sized remnants and salvages of canvas as fabric shops. It may take a few visits and some looking, but thats an option as well. I currently have a six foot by eighteen foot piece i found for ten bucks waiting to become something.

happy birthday twit. has anyone even seen him lately? I know he was planning on heading to marcus hook, but i don't know if he ever showed up. I was on the other side of town at the park.

hey lilly, I'm on the shell phone with grace. sign us up for sundays 1830 cleaning detail and 1900 trash run. Think about this lilly...... robbie on the gate when mad dog has to climb over... i don't know what would be worse- halt who goes there-or- hang on, i'll help you!!!!! lets just let him protect you and annoy sterling.

hey mates, don't forget the fireboxes that are already there. As I recall we spent some time figuring out how to cover them last year. For the sake of ease on ourselves and to lessen our footprint on the park, it might be an idea to utilize a few of them this year.

yes sterling, that would be appropriate. robbie would love to help out!

yeah, it takes a long time to dry though. the mix we use is linseed oil, turpentine, pine tar and bees wax. make sure it gets lots of sun light and you may want to bring it in at night to keep moisture off it. its good to try at least once to say you did it, but by the time you get done with the materials, headache of cleaning and listening to the better half about tracking all this gook through the house and stinking it up you're best off buying it. So how were you able to evenly coat your canvas and how did it turn out?

hey mate, i saw that jig a couple of years ago. i must say yours are much better than my mess. I would not plan on wearing those at pip and have them last though. the beach and a lot of the camp area is coral in various stages of ankle twisters. they will work for just puttering around the camp, but i'm afraid would be shredded with just one walk from the camp to the fort. i'm looking forward to seeing them. how do they feel on the feet?

happy birthday silkie!!!!!!

even though i've never.....ya see sutlerjon- its like this.... cadavers just well...... they don't........ in robbies mind...... well ahhh.... the similarities.......... Sorry folks, i'm drawing a blank on trying to explain this one to robbie and keep it pg rated. happy birthday cheeky

well he buggered up another one. Robbie, I believe it "how old are you now?" we know she's old, but its rude to ask how old.

darwin award........ since i got peppered in the back of the neck last year by a drunk with a lovely muzzle flash i've given up shooting with crowds. I'm not sure what was worse, the ringing in the ears, the burning down the neck, or the lax reply from the renowned "safety officer" who shrugged it off.... that just down right turned me off of reenactment battles. ok off my soap box, sorry. outside of policing yourself, the reality is the only thing we can do against bad p.r. like this is counter at every opportunity with solid demonstrations of skills and knowledge to the public. even then it may be an uphill battle against the media.

hmmmm archangel with a cannon + cousin robbie????????? well that's a poorly thought out disaster waiting to happen.

hey mate, our own sutlerjim makes the red set and they are beauties. he made a set of 24 inch wide benches for us and they are great. i have not seen the plans anywhere so i cannot advise on their construction. for larger groups and a bit more stability with fidgety kids I'd suggest the brown set, or tressell(sp?) type. they are a bit more solid and will stand up to kid poundings.

well here is me favorite!!! edit* that backstaff has done me in for the past two years. why does someone not flip it up to proper!!! bloody museums

hey mate, glad youre here to type about it!! scary stuff eh! hows the hand? didn't loose any projects did ye?

ok willioughby, not fair!!! you know we all cry when that one is sung. That's why we try not to sing it more than once a year. This always brings up grand memories of Capt's Briggs and Hiott, who were both instrumental in the first years of the Blackbeard festival. They were both amazing mariners in their own right. Capt Hiott, from his ventures before and as master of the Nykel. Capt Briggs served the Hampton Roads area for years with is tugantine, a tug rigged under sail which he turned a profit at. Blackbeard's crew and CSF are both still active with the Briggs family and recently helped raise funds and awareness for the Layne Briggs Maritime Scholarship.

hey folks, just an update. Looks like the first full weekend of june is a go. thursday and friday are classes for us to include time on the water in small boats and possibly building a cape cod dory. Saturday is a colonial maritime festival with an awsome event in the works for dinner entertainment. If anyone is interested in attending the workshops please let me know. L. Silver could you please send me an e-mail with a way to contact you.

HUZZZAAAHHHH!!!!!! the maker of our videos and producers of the CD's!!! Wait till the CSF disk comes out. tis grand indeed!

fly fishing was a leisure sport and considered frivilous in some realms of society as it was a sport to spend all that time catching one fish. In narrow, quick moving waters baskets with funnels on one end were used and placed in the rivers chutes. to catch a mess or mass o' fish on open waters large sein nets were used. this could be done two ways. first much like circling the wagons, the net was set and then rounded up. the bottom was snugged making a "purse" and the whole lot was pulled aboard or atleast till it could be hauled no more, then the fish dipped out of the purse. The second was to run the net perpendicular from shore and then into a pen. the fish, not being able to get out of the pen were then collected with a net. I know where a set up like this is used commercially still. I'll see if I cant get a picture of it. Obviously, the above two methods would not work out so well onboard an trans-ocean vessel under way. So two things were done. the first- stop the ship and set a net. not ideal as this is time consuming and depending on the size of the net sometimes resulted in the launch being lost at sea. there are many reports of this in the fishing industries. the second is to set numerous trolling lines behind the ship and wait it out. This is where the ship nail/ baited hook narratives come into play. I'm still at a loss as to what type of line would be used to land something the size of a hundred pounds by trolling though.