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royaliste, pern is teaching this week- not sure if he'll be checking the boards. were the "locals" dock side or anchored out? if they were dockside, where were they in relation to you. I'll pass it along to pern and scott asap. be ashame for a floating clorox bottle to be covered in powder. just think getting a prime slip next to the pirates and complaining about noise!!!! -dutch

Capn' congrats, looking forward to seeing you again at the festival. -dutch

ok off to find woodal. thanks, another project . . . . wow a chest big enough to prop an end of a table. thats huge for a ship. if its packed like the shipwrights list its got tons of things that never see the light of day. had to call williamsburg to get the title as my cover page is long since gone. Yes, i was way off on the title. _every man his own doctor -or- poor planters physician, originally published in 1733. It covers cures for fits to snakebites. most all include bleeding of some sort. it's a colonial rendition of the readers digests home doctors series. somewhere i ran across a description of 17th century CPR. it involves placing tubes in orifices and lots of blowing.... better you than me! i'll see if i can't find it in my collection of goodies. amazingly, the victim survived and the author had dinner with him three years later. on an unrelated note. i went to the dentist two days ago. he saw one of our shows last summer and has been collecting some goodies for me. i got a dozen ceramic crowns that he could not use and a few extracted bovine teeth (he does vet dentistry as well)- roots and all. i feel a shipboard extraction coming on!!! i guess i should go more often.

mission, have you run across the home physiks book- i thinks thats what its called, i don't have it sitting in front of me. printed in the early 1730's? granted its towards the end of the era, but still full of usefull things and common practices of the day. as far as the kit, looking at some of the names on the bottles, i wonder whats in the unmarked ones! the box itself is just as interesting. it doesn't look too hard to reproduce. the hard part would be finding the flat recessed handles. -dutch

its sad when the post office does not even want them back. the stamp machine sends em out as change, but won't take em back- thinks they are quarters. thats the only local place that dishes them out anyhow. we use them alot here. mix them with some gaudy costume jewelry and period repro coins and you can get a good once over as you are paying bills- not in attire. last month there was a new waitress at the local watering hole (shameless plug for marker 20). we rolled in before a meeting, had dinner and paid for it all in coins. poor thing, the bartender had to explain it to her. now pack to pyratecon, Blackbeard's Crew will be sending a raiding party. Madam grace (#2 hot wench last year will be returning), willoughby will have her own program on music, myself and atleast a half dozen more.

criminal logs of the day often have physical descriptors of the guilty. i think a noted limp would be worth mentioning, even if the guilty were a pirate. might be a lead there. i'm having trouble finding the records you are mentioning- can ya help me out.

huh, thats interesting. capn' where is your source for Robert's crew list. i have not run across it before (admittedly never thought to look either). this is definitely worth looking into. i guess the next thing is to hit williamsburg and the virginia archives up to see where that trail would lead. maybe we can find his next step immediately after the trial. he had to leave the colony somehow. unfortunately, a lot of records were lost durring the civil war. -dutch

great news gary, sounds like a packed summer for you. were looking forward to seeing you again at blackbeard fest. if you find yourself mid chesapeake bay and in need of anything, the folks are on the piankitank, just up from fishing bay, with deep water dock and electric. we may only have one grocery store in town but we got a liquor store and TWO West Marines!!!! -dutch

so what is the best way to fly in (other than on a plane) and get to the fort???

hey cookie, remind me to show you pics from sultana. chip and QM got a few of her galley for ya when they went exploring last week. sorry folks not smart enough to get them scanned and onboard the internet. i'll pass em off to one of those smart folk later.

i took some pictures of the various wreck recovered shoes to a leather worker here. she came up with an observation i had not heard of. Crediting GoF with all of the legwork has anyone seen this in the vertical but stitch at the heel. the top and bottom three or four stitches seem to be overlapped in the opposite direction. ie, the top three or four stitches overlap towards the outstep, there is the but stitch, then the bottom overlaps towards the instep for three or four stitches. something like this was/ is used to spread and reinforce a seam. this is based on the following pictures from GoF's site. On the bottom whydah drawing of the back of the shoe, there is something odd going on with the stitch line. If you look at the closeup of the heel that is used to reference the but stitches, the top does not really support this, but whats going on at the bottom. anyone????

well the festival folks have met. the highlights. turmoil up river of the bridge ( new) cannons and noise (more) GOSLING'S RUM (more)

there is a press in st georges bermuda at one of the museums. unfortunately it was so long ago i don't remember which one. i do remember the curator, finding out we lived close to williamsburg, made a point to say their press was an earlier type. sorry for the vagueness, but might point you somewhere usefull.

hey cookie, i'm on it. think we even have the copper for a heat shield I'll check the stack of bricks tomorrow

oh man gunner, you snuck that in while i was between screens. i darned near fell out the chair when the picture popped up. oh, purdy!!!!!!!!

silkie asked about the saturday night sing. each crew or talented individual (which i am not) performs, round robin fashion, what ever they like as long as its relatively period and family friendly- sorry, no good ship venus or seven drunken nights (well maybe the first three nights). i'll have more info later. this may be changing a bit from the past.

oh fox, no tats here-pure nips!! the night cookie provided them for a meeting we were fighting over the pot. soak a couple of ships biscuits with it and you're on to something!!! problem is you have to pace yourself, otherwise you end up with a terrible belly ache. anyhow on to the festival. fox bring your camera!!!! projects are being worked on. things are being added, moved, and tweeked. rumors are in the wind and i hope to be able to confirm a few and share some news within a week or so.

ummm callenish- there is no measurement of sand . . . . .how can we possibly have a festival without our daily allotment of sand in the victuals??????? cookie, can i put in for an order of mashed nips to go?? for those who have not experienced that one , they are terrible- you won't like them- pass me yours and i'll take care of it.

wow. ok so woad stinks . callico was heavily taxed/ banned from the colonies for a while. longhunters like walnut....

er um- oh my! note to self- stay away from woad.

well, we covered the walnut and red. i was thinking more like what makes blues, greens, etc . . . . speaking of blue .. i died an old light blue weskit royal blue. it turned out even and nice but man is it bright. what can be used to tone it down without darkening it like coffee or walnut would do? its linen without a liner.

intersting, i had no idea madder existed. Having bad allergies, smelling the flowers so to speak is not on my to do list. As far as dying anything, my extent goes as far as black walnut shells and coffee grounds. maybe if someone recalls a post we can resurect or head this one in the direction of dying I would be interested in figuring out how the colors of the day were made. the other thing was the work smock. they are being seen more there.

the other week i was down in the colonial city and noticed the militia had on maroon smocks. I didn't think much about it and noticed it again this past weekend. i was on the phone with someone from their wardrobe department today and just mentioned it. her reply was interesting- it seems their view of red that was available at the time has been off. they are redoing some of the red wardrobes because of this. british red (as in redcoat) is still right, but the colonial red is more maroon. she said she would e-mail me the sources when she sends me some other stuff next week. yeah ,i know its not our period but still makes ya think.

my appologies, forgot about this post. real mcoys on the outside. nothing on the instep side.

ah leave it to cookie to find something on the cheap. well done sir. how far from the event is it??????