Dutchman

http://www.wnct.com/ video link, look under video section towards the bottom of the scroll. http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/...008/08/10/news- this one has a scroll section with a montage- you have to look for it. timehttp://www.jdnews.com/news/pirates_58713___article.html/pirate_beaufort.htmls/news/doc489e014a07574467198481.txt great job folks.

carolina buccaneer, my appolgies for not greeting sooner. twas a bit busy raiding last week. Kevin is indeed a grand fellow and the book is a wonderful read- spent part of the weekend with him. see a related thread in twill. PM me I would enjoy a great discussion on this book.

MODS-- if this belongs somewhere else please move it. thanks For once I am going to be serious though. For those who were at Beaufort, my appologies for sneeking out at the last minute. I tried to get all my see ya laters in.... but i had to meet someone While at the Beaufort invasion this weekend I was fortunate enought to spend a bit of time with my friend Kevin Duffus author of The Last Days of Black Beard The Pirate. Not a plug for Kevin -well Ok it is- but folks, if you are interested in a different view than what has been circulating for the past couple hundred years read the book. On the way to Beaufort, Graces GPS sent us way off course via a ferry resulting in an erie sequence of deja-vu from when i was eight years old. but anyhow after relaying this story to Kevin, he explains that there was another whole issue that i was unaware of close by. This led to a wonderful fieldtrip on the way home. We took a left, then a Right, then turned around and another left.. or was it a right? we ultimately ended up walking through a field and entered a patch of woods where we were greeted by balast stone headmarkers of no less than a dozen guests. we don't know which one she was but Kevin has narrowed the site down to the final residence of Black Beards sister Susannah Beard Franck! I can't even begin to explain the feeling of knowing that I was one of a very small handful of people that had come to visit her in the last 200 years, that we were most likely standing on the grounds of the last place Black Beard visited, took care of daily business and made plans before his death and that only a few people know where this is! The five of us were standing on the shore just absorbing the scene and I got to thinking about Adventure sitting at the mouth of the creek, a long boat rowing ashore with the man I've done so much reading and learning about on board visiting his family and just wondered what he did before he headed back to sea. Kevin asked what I thought of the whole thing. I just sat there for a second...... a clear still day became cloudy, the wind picked up, white caps formed, and a few rain drops fell. All I could say was we were not alone out there. I don't know if it was Susannah or her brother Edward- but we were definitely not alone! We can read the books and put on our outfits for a weekend and visit the sites. We can sit in front of our monitors and argue about bucket boots till we are blue in the face. But I have never experienced living history like this. I have done my darnedest to portray my characters as accurately as I can based on the information we have. But after a wonderful weekend with many good friends, doing what we love and being able to conclude with a humble visit to an unknown, non-commercialized bit of history this important- all i can say is thank you all for a wonderful education!!! Thank you Kevin for introducing me to Susannah!

eh i agree with sterling. could have done better................................ my foot! that place rocked like it was 1740!!!!!!!!!!!! a grand time indeed. hope we convinced them to bring it back next year. and while credits are going out- lets please not forget the fine folks from the rowing club and museum who provided the long boats and crews for the landing pyrates.

hey sterling- look at this.

thats alright. i fixed graces gutters and siding. it all works out.

oh so he made dinner...... he mends your attire, makes fine goods of leather all while learning a new language.......

dag- slow post again. disregard

poor bugger. got all married up, works on your wardrobe, makes wonderful things of leather and all he gets is a grilled cheese???? Well since he is learning southerneese with "y'all" introduce him to tatertots- spoil him! . Grace makes sure there is a wide variety of TV dinners in the freezer when I visit anyhow onto the costrels.... what sort of proofing y'all using on the innerds

"hey y'all"???!!!! my goodness, getting ready to head south for the weekend are you? very nice work. i'd love to see the end result. what is the measured size and how much does it projectedly hold?

*sigh* 290 years of speculation and myth. maybe someday

huh, they look kinda clean.

the only part of the human body that does not grow from birth is the eye. the eyes will move as your body grows, but the eyes balls do not change. the breast bone is actually two bones fused together which is located between ribs 2-3. this fused joint is called the angle of louis. if you feel down your chest you can feel a slight ridge and angle.

huh. had not thought about that. thats one of those little places that you always mean to get to but drive past. I remember reading where they did some renovations not too long ago so it should be pretty good. I can see it now- yee dawgy, dutch, grace, sterling and snotties head to the wild frontier of shennandoah for research on pyrates. me thinks we might need an ambitious explorer to accompany us.

Huzzah! congrats from Blackbeards crew!

R. misson, not sure which PM you are checking anymore, but ran across the apothecary in Fredericksburg VA this morning and got to play with his pet swiss leeches. Jolly good time and the physic was excited when we entered and asked for the gorry story rather than the watered down weak stomach version. Anyhow, he cited a book entitled Culpepers Complete Herbal and English Physician. thought you might be interested if you had not run across it as a reference yet.

i'd go polynisians on the sailors. They made charts out of a wooden frame string and shells. vikings were civilized compared to these folks. relatively recent history shipbuilders would go to the herreshoff brothers.

oh sterlings testy, musta been something he ate for dinner.

mary and joseph!!!! wow what a neat find. we all read about these folks. but to put a hand on them, so to speak. now thats history!

a dock full of 'ores! i can barely handle a wench. sorry, couldn't help myself..........

just driven through- never stopped. oh you mean the paining? Interesting. obviously a heck of a tide swing to leave him on the hard like that. Poor main is all out of trim as well. atleast he can walk to shore. with a hull as flat as hers, i would expect to see lee boards. It is a beautiful painting though. I wonder what the story is? Sun is setting and she has obviously been aground for a few hours. Owner coming ashore, but from what? Pilings in the background show an old landing maybe? perhaps destroyed by a winter ice storm?

from virginia vice admiralty report of a seized vessel from 1756- newport bound for jamaica. a little late but still good. I'm only listing the food stuff which was listed as crew staples- not cargo. 8 barrels fish oil 5 casks beer quantity 61 dzn. 1 bottles (note- 1 seems to stand for quart in the ledgers, not positive though) 6 boxes soap (sorry could not help myself, sorry M.A.D. D'dogge we gotta bathe now) 2 pipes wine 17 hhds Claret 7 barrels syder 11 casks ships bread 17 barrels beef 13 barrels pork 50 barrels flour 1 box cheese 11 ferkens butter 9 hogsheads dryed fish 93 barrels mackrael 108 barrels menhaden onions

*sigh* ah the land of real boats

well all i can say is if any agency with lots of initials that drives ominous black cars with tinted windows pulls up in front of your house-----RUN!!!!!!!!

ah Henry Teonge. A wonderful read. It took me a while to find it, but is worth the coins. He was a chaplain in the navy and provides some entertaining color in his descriptions. I personally like his description of 17th century CPR. We debated the finer points of "fundamental ends" just the other week at a crew feast (somewhere around page 25 as I recall). Some got offended and left the table. oh well. So mission, how bout a demonstration next time out Just kidding!