Dutchman
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ahoy all,
i'm sad to report that the Deltaville Maritime museum is currently on fire and it looks like the main building and pavilion will be a total loss. This is the home of the Explorer and where we base a lot of our activities out of. They have drained both town pools and are pulling water from the creek to work the pumps. will keep you posted....... we just can't catch a break this summer!
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just for clarification, constable, matty and i got out of the ball just before it hit. I was delayed getting into the parking deck due to a tent that landed in my flight path. of course if cross hadn't been protecting the mighty sterling by sacrificing himself as a shield in the basement of the parking deck, he may have seen it. *snickering* good stories all around. in the end we were all safe and accounted for- thats all that mattered at the time!
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ahoy all.... checking in, finally! SOOOOO, if your story of Blackbeard 2012 doesn't start with "no kidding- there we were.........." you weren't there!
The tornado hit at 8:10, by 8:30 we knew all were safe- that took a while as we were spread out over ten blocks of canvas and party. We reentered the camp around 9 and began the clean up. we endured a couple downpours but the crew captains reported in and said they would continue with what was left. The festival committee and city officials met, and lamented, and met, and cried. at 0100, they looked at the two pirates on the committee and asked if it could be done...... they were told we were going to plan for a festival until they told us to stop. at 0900 the camp was half way up, city works was clearing the downed trees and debris, Dolphin Laundry mat showed up to take our wet clothes, sand came from a local contractor to fill the pond in the middle of camp. and the fire marshal proclaimed the site safe.........and by 1500, the rest is Pirate history!
Thank you all for your calls, prayers, offers of help and support. Thank you to our reenactors who came to me as were still hunkered down in the parking deck who said they wanted to continue. We had three vendors leave and one group had to leave due to a personal emergency saturday evening, otherwise all remained and we had one of the largest visitor turnouts in the events history. I met with sallie, the city festival boss this morning and on behalf of the city of hampton- HUZZAH! well done mates.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU one and all! I'll chime in again after some rest.
I'm off to bed now, its been a long weekend. ...dream sequence begins here " but aunty Em, we're not in kansas any more!"
*edit* just saw the tall ship concerns. Wolf was not in port yet, they are arriving tomorrow and all are safe. All the small boats were fine and the three large boats remained at the dock for safety due to possible floatsom damage. Pride of Baltimore II took a knock on her bowsprit when a loose boat hit her, but she is already repaired.
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thanks for letting us know. i just passed it on to the organization sponsoring the ball
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damnation my arse! grace was on the shellphone while i was typing and the contract was changing as i was typing.
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well okey dokey then!
pirates camp is full!
the last vendors spot in the pirate hunters camp just filled up. no room left in the inn, as it were. the pirate hunters camp has ended up with some really cool vendors this year.
volunteers getting lined up.
event meeting on thursday making final plans. here we go!
*edit* well now, looks like hat maker extraordinare (damn-*edit to the edit till he talks to his wife*) will be on hand to replace Sterlings frumpy old one. Hats will be available in time for purchase Friday for the ball!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatswain's_call
of particular interest is the one from atocha. one was dug up in jamestown, va. as well.
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maybe they floated,were seaworthy and available?
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shameless marketing plug- if anyone has a desire for ottoman weapons, please PM me. one of our members is an oriental and ottoman antiques horsetrader dealer. he travels to turkey a couple times a year and is always bringing back things for people. If there is interest, i can see if he has any on hand he would be willing to sell now and post pics in the market thread.
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sutler who?????
hey mate, good looking work. how ya doing?
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" I think that there is metions if straw hat and few of those can well be tricorns..... "
it makes logical sense, but speculating does me no good i'm afraid.
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dude- you have your own thread on hat straps! kidding, maybe we can find answers to both our searches! i love the cuffs matching the weskit. check out the size of the shoe buckles too! also the folded umbrella. I wonder what the material is?
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made something for the chamber pot?
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william, you're exactly right- thats why i felt the need to break it out. i would love to be able to say straw tricorns are p.c., but one artists rendering doesn't cut it in my book. Does it raise a doubt and make a good case to keep looking though? yup! i've seen hats take all sorts of style changes after use so who knows what the person life style or work habits have changed a hat into over time.
edit- swashbuckler, i deleted the two posts you put in the wrong thread.
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the cargo tent was dorian and josephines doing. was trully amazing watch it all go together. the icing on the cake for me was the detail of the gold and silver bars. wish was real!
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as i told the folks at jamestown, was their own damned fault! the judges told us we didn't have enough stuff so thais was our reply.
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straw flat brim hats are documented but not straw tricorns.
seems this picture has been around the block.........
our friends over at historical trekkers beat this hat a while back- for our perusal----
http://www.historicaltrekking.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8933&sid=4bb7d14d14d3a005240e85f1d7514fe8
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books are packed i'm afraid. will take a while to get back to them, but this has my interest so it'll be on a to do list once i can get back into the research mode
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leghorn is a rooster
in southern climates straw tricorns abound and often lead to scrutiny by the PC folks. I have not been able to find any documentation one way or the other until this picture came up, which now creates a suspicion of such- but still does not confirm it was done or who/ what class would wear them in what situation.
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mission, thats the thory of piss tubs. i have not run across any documentation on them though- not that i have been looking for it either. it would make some sense to use piss buckets in this fasion on larger ships where the tumbleholm may foul or tip a water bucket coming up the hull. I do have an illustration somewhere that shows the bilge pumps of a ship emptying on deck and having leather hoses (more like tubes) to direct the flow overboard or (i imagine, no proof though) onto a fire if needed. the other issue with the bilge pumps is keeping them primed. if you lose the prime it takes a while to get them flowing, which would be bad for fire fighting.
if grace has not packed the books, i'll take a looksee
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hoho- now our fearless felines are in on the craze!
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and after all the bacon knacks ye off..........
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hit good will or similar thrift store mid summer, best time to get them for a buck or two.
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swashbuckler will have to date it since he posted originally. the guess is 1730ish, per the other thread
Deltaville museum is on fire!
in Scuttlebutt
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thanks for your concerns and well wishes. still no official word about what happened but its pretty well pieced together. the good news is its most likely accidental. there were about a dozen small deadrises being built of juniper under the pavilion. once it started there was no stopping it and it spread to the main building before the trucks got there. there were also half adozen historic boats on the hard that were lost as well.