Commodore Swab

I have no skill when it comes to swordsmanship but I do have a similar scar. You dont need to play with swords for scars, the only benefit to drunken sword fighting is that you dont realize how much it hursts at the time

I had no idea when I posted this it would generate so much "interest" I was simply wondering how period correct the author had been when he painted it. We all know that when taking pictures we usually put on our best clothes and I was wondering how this picture might relate to real life.

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As I said, a good tale

aye silicon does flow nicely . . .

How about a deck of cards, ever notice when you are playing solitare there is ALWAYS someone to look over your shoulder and tell you what to do?

#1 Boots not shoes -used to walk on reef to catch fish #2 Barrel - used to collect/store rain water #3 Blunderbuss/musket with bayonet -Flint used for firestarting and bayonet used for cutting/piercing coconuts

http://www.ussbatonrouge.com/connie.htm The following tale is from the history of the oldest commissioned warship in the world, the USS Constitution. It comes by way of the National Park Service, as printed in "Oceanographic Ships, Fore and Aft", a periodical from the oceanographer of the US Navy. On 23 August 1779, the USS Constitution set sail from Boston, loaded with 475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of water, 74,000 cannon shot, 11,500 pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum. Her mission: to destroy and harass English shipping. On 6 October, she made Jamaica, took on 826 pounds of flour and 68,300 gallons of rum. Three weeks later, Constitution reached the Azores, where she provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and 2,300 gallons of Portuguese wine. On 18 November, she set sail for England where her crew captured and scuttled 12 English merchant vessels and took aboard their rum. By this time, Constitution had run out of shot. Nevertheless, she made her way unarmed up the Firth of Clyde for a night raid. Here, her landing party captured a whiskey distillery, transferred 13,000 gallons aboard and headed for home. On 20 February 1780, the Constitution arrived in Boston with no cannon shot, no food, no powder, no rum and no whiskey. She did, however, still carry her crew of 475 officers and men and 18,600 gallons of water. The math is quite enlightening. Length of cruise: 181 days Booze consumption: 1.26 gallons per man per day (this does NOT include the unknown quantify of rum captured from the 12 English merchant vessels in November) Naval historians say that the re-enlistment rate from this cruise was 92%.

I was just browsing along the internet and I came across this picture http://www.pirates-cave.com/blackbeard1.jpg I doubt this is PC but the question I had was . . . What keeps the weight of the pistols from causing it to rotate around and hang with the pistols at the bottom?

Beautiful, how do I say I WANT Actually though, I am guessing that at least the lock is from the rifle shop. Any way to find out which one? It looks to be the perfect size for the blunderbuss I want to build.

Most everything you seem to see regarding (most being over 80%) weapons or at least what I have noticed are flintlock whether they are english or french the primary difference being doglock. However, considering that most of the new world was colonized by Spain I would think the Spanish Miquelet lock would be a little bit more prevelant. Do you supose it is due to the fact that being a british colony that is what we naturally associate with? I wonder honestly if you were a pirate what percantage of the arms aboard as most of them would of been captured would of truly been flintlocks? Logically I would assume that most of the settlements would be Spanish with most of the settlers carrying weapons from home (ie the family gun) and there would be no real consistancy. You might find a beautiful 1620's hunting gun passed down in a royal house next to modern calvary piece in the next house. I also imangine that pirates came from all walks of life as well as regions, just thinking of the languages spoken would be another topic. . .

Out of curisoity what alloy are you using? We use silicon for most everything, on some of the smaller pieces and other things like truniun caps or swivel yokes we may use scap bronze to save the cost.

Still looking into this blunderbuss. Is there anyone out there with a riffle shop catalog that might be able to scan a couple pictures for me? If so send me a PM and I will tell you the locks I am interested in.

Sounds like I will be there Sunday night, however talking with Shay. There may be an Oyster pre PiP party here Tuesday then a carpool/caravan down to the fort on Wednesday to star setup. Maybe even invite some of our more local wannabe pirates and give them a taste of PiP. Just tossing ideas out there

I supose its a good thing my friend is a she and not a he

Thats what I thought, a friend of mine used that drawing to have some clothes made but after reading much of the forum she was getting scared with all the talk of hand stitching and linen vs cotton thinking she might not be able to wear it at all.

http://www.mariner.org/women/images/images...nnyMaryRead.jpg

Large ships include the TS Goldern Bear Vallejo-Costa Rica-French Polynesia-Cook Islands-Hawaii with stops at islands inbetween. Then hauling Bannanas from guatamala and equator. More onto the sailing side it has been bay sailing (Frisco) on Santa Cruze 27's, working with boyscouts here in FL on about a 100 ft ketch, racing on a reynolds 33 catamaran, morgan 60 schooner (FL-St Martin-Azores-Spain-France), Tayana 42 thru the bahamas-Turks and Caicos-DR-PR, I have also spent numerous other trips on a variety of sailboats and now have a C&C Corvette (31 foot) that I am going thru and may be taking down to PiP this year

Dang now why can't it be a might bit closer

Sorry forgot to mention that, I would say late 1600's. See Commodore Swab travelled to the far east where he got married then on his return home to Portugal he was attempting to catch up to the treasure fleet sailing for Spain when he got shipwrecked in the FL Keys (the hurricane of 1715) and has been stranded for a number of years until he met with some pirates in the Mercury Camp (1720). At least thats how I see things unfolding.

You can just mail all your weapons to me in Key Largo if you want and we can transport them down when we come. Heck if a tone of people need it we even have a trailer and can litterally load up a couple tons of stuff. So those of you who need to shipp the bigger cannons

Actually that might not be so far from the truth Upon talking to my wife and inquiring as to period garb prior to the reign of King Rama I in Thailand/Siam she replied that it was easy to find new clothes from that era since the style has not changed much. She also added that it was even easier than I had thought since the women went topless. Naturally this is unacceptable for events as much as my cohorts might wish (but then I wouldn'tlet them see her topless regardless). Some of the royality were wearing tops so I will have to go for this look for her and then most likly switch her into mens clothes as she lets out her inner pirate.

I am looking for imformation, patterns and if at all possible someone who might be able make one for a trade. I am looking for a Portuguese officers/captains coat either short or long.

Agreed and understood, except... The sextant was an easy purchase. Decided to purchase several guns instead of one astrolabe. They just aren't cost-effective. The reason I have one as my avatar is... so I have at least ONE astrolabe, even if it's only a virtual one. If someone finds a good source of affordable astrolabes, PLEASE start a new topic thread in PLUNDER. So I see ye be looking for an Astrolabe, I may have a source. I don't know the cost but I do know it is a museume quality reproduction of an original cast in bronze. When held against an original I challenge you to pick the reproduction. Commodore Swab

Oi, Ive been there of course I couldn't find any treasure